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Bookmark or Share- rear end gear oil - InsideTopAlcoholI run the redline oil with the friction modifier also ( a small little bottle ). I run a top alcohol dragster with over 3000 horse and have no problems in the eight years I have been in the class. I would never run anything else. We had a 9 1/2 inch gear with over 90 passes on it.
- wrist pins - InsideTopAlcoholI use 1.094x3.400x.250 h-13 and bent a few c screw outlaw promod 2 step at wot bae hemi what should I be using -----h-11
- BAE billet block question - InsideTopAlcoholLifters Std is 1.8", +.100 is 1.9" and +.200 is 2", I have 2" In my motor and std off the shelf hemi cams seem to work with no problem. Fatheads make it very hard to use with the std as it creates alignment issues, I have had std bore half inch short deck blocks that were ran with fatheads and the std spacing, maybe some clean up in the push rod holes.
- Cranking compression? - InsideTopAlcoholThis summer I hurt a cylinder and was doing a leakdown which leaked only a few %. I was amazed, than quickly realized the damaged piston allowed oil to the top of the rings and I had a false reading. We changed the damaged piston/rings.
- BAE heads BAE-6 vs BAE-8 - InsideTopAlcoholThe alcohol version has a reshaped chamber, better port and bigger valves that a BA-6. The A-Fuel head has dual plugs and smaller ports to keep the air velocity up with reshaped chambers for nitro and different seat angles and valve sizes.
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