I had originally measured for and bought new 3/8" push rods for the solid cam that were 8.425" in length. “He just sat on it for four or five years, and next thing I knew, it was getting loaded up on a trailer, and away it went.As I have mentioned in another post, I had originally installed a solid lifter cam in my new motor (still on the stand, never run) and have since changed my mind and decided to go with a milder hydraulic cam which is now installed. God knows why I did it, because I’ve been pining over the thing ever since,” he chuckles. “I sold it to a neighbour of mine across the road. Rob’s affair with motocross racing predated his drag racing career, so shortly after the PSC feature, he moved the Capri on and dived straight back into two-wheelers. It would’ve ran bottom 10s or into the nines, but I was pushing it and didn’t want to blow the thing to smithereens, because you’d never rebuild it again. “I was running almost 11.0s without the gas, and the gas used to make over a second’s difference on it. “We had a run at Heathcote, but the nitrous packed it in,” he recounts. The driveline got an overhaul shortly after the feature, Rob swapping to forged pistons, a solid cam and a manualised Powerglide with a view to lopping a couple of seconds off his PB. ![]() “The engine bay was green when I got it, but there was brake fluid and stuff leaking everywhere, so I just painted it rattle-can black to get it semi-presentable,” Mark says
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