When my Sprint was new, I had the 200 with 3spd manual and 3:00 rear. I had a set of headers on it and the best it ever ran was a 15 flat. Still got the time card. Thats 1.2 seconds faster than my 77 with a 289.
bmcdaniel- Thanks. I think you just sold me on it. I run a duraspark distrib, pitched the factory brain and replaced it with an msd 6al
a lot of good ideas here so far, i'd go a little bigger on the carb, or if money is an item right now you might try playing with the jets a little. a good cam would help too. tires are a biggie, slicks or if you need street tires, mickey thompson et streets. i changed the fan to an electric fan, changed to an electric motor for the water pump, and switched to synthetic oil (mobil 1, 5-30). i moved the battery to the trunk for a little more traction and installed a 5 gallon fuel cell with a holley blue pump. good luck and let us know what you try and how it works for you.
Well I figured out the real reason the second time we went to the track.....You have to have 16 rockers and pushrods that work right. After three prelim runs in the mid 16's we opened the hood and had a bunch of oil on the intake and Carb. There was a hole in the valve cover and 1 of the rockers had come out of adjustment and stripped out, busting a hole in the valve cover. It bent the pushrod and obviously was hindering performance. The rocker was on the intake side so it was hard for us to hear the clatter. Does anybody have any good Ideas on where I can get a nice Tall 302 valve cover??? Thanks Lox
Valve covers Lots of choices for valve covers. Summit brand ones are nice and tall and I think they are under $100.00 Cheap Taiwan tin can be had plenty tall for about $50.00 at your local chain store. Personally, I'm unwilling to get rid of my old school wiend cast aluminum units. they are not tall enough, so I yarded the baffles out of them and doubled up on gaskets. I still can't tighten them down all the way or rockers will contact them. I'm trying to decide the best way to attack this trouble. I'd like to put some spacers under them, but the only ones I've seen were over $100.00 and I think that's ridiculous.
