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as well. She did it with gold leaf today’s standards, though. The with GRP aluminum rods and a
which was out of the same packet block is by World Products and Crane roller cam.
as is on the “Bad News” Dodge. the crank is from Scat. I use Arias
This lady has lettered all my cars pistons, GRP rods, and the cam is The Injector is a 1966 date-
for 40 years and it’s amazing she one I’ve literally used for decades coded Hilborn stack injector set-up
still had the original pack after all and is little more than a healthy for nitro with a vintage Enderle
this time! street grind. Hilborn stacks on top cam-driven 80A-1 fuel pump
with an Enderle fuel pump. upgraded with Teflon internals
NMM - Now we’re going to for nitro. I’m using a mid-‘60s
get into the powerplants of both Steve - The engine in the Vertex magneto upgraded to
Steve Moth’s “Bad News” and Jim “Bad News” is a Stage 3 vintage 3 amps with 8mm Vertex solid
Henry’s “Big Iron.” Jim, why don’t aluminum Keith Black 426 Hemi core wires and Autolite Top Fuel
you go first….. block, with vintage Keith Black spark plugs. Jim Shewbert in
D-port aluminum heads and
Jim - In the past ten years I Keith Black stock size valves with Southern California gathered and
trusted a couple of “known” engine matching springs and Smith Bros. assembled the engine in 2013 and
builders to do some work and both custom pushrods. The new-old- Ed Miller of Chesapeake, Virginia
times it was a bad experience so stock Keith Black top fuel crank freshened it in 2017. I perform all
now I do all of my own engine work. was prepped and stamped by Dave the engine tuning, adjustments and
My pet engine is a 488” hemi as Zeuschel in 1967 for Bob Riggle’s maintenance necessary that comes
that was a common size we used “Hemi Under Glass.” It has a stock with running nitro.
in the late ‘60s. It’s very mild by bore and 4.25” stroke, Arias pistons Continued on next page

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