In a message dated 02/07/2000 5:23:39 PM Pacific Standard Time,
americanpartnerinrussia@erols.com writes:
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My name is George Mitchell and I live in Washington
DC.
I used to live in beautiful Austin Texas where I met
Skip Higginbotham. Me ,a life long drag racer,somehow
Skip convinced me that the cool thing to do was to put
a high gear in my drag car and go to Wendover. Alas ,I
never got the chance then but I do have the chance
now.
I am building a new car based on on a 924 Porsche .
I have started a back half of the car with a small
tire and have all the pieces to lower it put a 9 inch
rear in it and go racing!
Here is the issue . I have a bunch of early hemi stuff
(desoto) and I am collecting hot rod stuff for it . I
can get some chrysler parts ( 392 ) but I want to run
the small motor and run in D/MS.Run it on gas first,
then injected alcohol, then blown injected alcohol
with some pop. Skip suggests that that I forget the
whole thing and just put a destroked chevy in the car
and let it eat. Fabrication is not a problem on the
motor (ie intake, grind the crank for chevy jounals
,etc ). The bottom line is I know what to do with the
motor but will it be competitve in the long run ? I
am anxious to get out there but as you can see I am
trying to go fast in kind of a different way...
Any thoughts ???
Any Parts ????
Thanks a lot and I am looking forward to meeting as
many of you as possible in April on the east coast and
August on the west coast.
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George,
Dare to be different and stay with your early hemi. The Markley Bros. &
Harry Hoffman Sr. & Jr. have been running little "C", "D", & "E" DeSoto's for
years at the salt with a lot of success.
When the time comes I could put you in touch with Charley Markley or
Harry Hoffman Sr. in San Mateo, CA. (SF Bay Area). Hopefully they would be
willing to advise you. There's a lot of potential in the smaller MoPar
Hemi's, just a shortage of some of the speed equipment, namely induction
systems. Try Dale Wilch Sales in Kansas City, KS.
Ardun Doug in CA
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