Thanks all. It has been a lot of fun for me this FED. The videos I am waiting to see is the tracks own video. I want to hear it as it crosses the finish line. They should have it soon. I always get one to watch. Car was working very well Sept 28 race.
As far as the /6.org group goes I have been there. Didn't get that warm fuzzy feeling. ;>)
Currently working on a new intake carb header combo.

Welcome Don,from the north shore of Lake Erie. Nice handy work on that intake!

I am sure he wont notice.

BTW found four of the old Corvette (53 54 six cyl vette)sidedraft  carbs Monday (three and a spare). Can get all four for $300. Of course they also will work perfectly on a 261 ;>)

Re the six carbs. I still have them. The four barrel wasn't any faster or slower when I switched. They were the whole reason for the cars existence. When I retired after I finished the practice engine for the NASCAR Returns to Lemans Project in Europe I set about to try some of the things I had always wanted to do. First I found the carbs, then using a manifold gasket made the manifold ,reworked the carbs (no pumps, top feed , single pull linkage etc) But I had no car so I built the Sr DRAGSTER from scratch. After enjoying running it for two years with the 6 carbs I decided to push it a bit since that goal of running a six cylinder on six tillotsons had already been fulfilled. As some know it worked from the first run.   Once I got beyond the ability of the stick slant six fuel pump (or so I surmised) to supply them I decided to switch to the four barrel since I had it and had a severely reworked 750 EDDY on it I wanted to try. It worked so well a friend offered me $350 for the carb. I was powerless to refuse. Morton (32 bantam 460Ford) had the current 600 DP under his bench all apart with some pieces missing and donated it to me. I flogged the daylights out of it and had most of the missing parts in stock. It works pretty good although the 750 was easier to leave with because it wasn't a DP having a weighted air valve which is the Carter/Eddy equivalent of vacuum secondaries.  Since then I have reworked a head to extreme full race flow and had two cams made to my specs. This spring (may race) I discovered by way of a long lens photo Bob Willis took that I was driving with the hand operated brakes fully applied by half track. I couldn't believe it but photos don't lie. I had to force myself to put both hands on the wheel when I left so I would not subconsciously be doing that. WOW! What a difference! If that seems stupid, it is. Wait till you get to be "an old fart. "I would have insisted I was only keeping the brake ready and I had always drove that way. In fact on one of the very early videos on You tube you can hear my crew , Mike Sietsma answering someone who asked what my hand was doing . He says "On the brake" in the video.

I am not a good driver and never was but I still enjoy it. Still I find it hard to walk and chew gum at the same time. I treasure every pass in the little blue FED. I had no idea life could be so much fun.

Don

Randy, For sure. $20 was bad enuf.
Warren Ok I will make sure they don't wander off.
Yeah. Carter YL I think if I remember. I was just thinking out loud about the 261 and mentioned the vette carbs. When I described them he said come with me. Way in the back in an old milk crate in the far corner of the shop were 4 of them. They were also used on the Turbo 180hp corvair (one only) and in some 1950s marine application (which these are from) because of their low profile. Enrichment was all mechanical, not vaccum related which is nice for HP. I got familiar with them when I installed a corvair turbo on a 170 slant six way back in about 1975. Some of you saw it at Mohawk and at Cayuga in a blue 32 bantam roadster back in the day owned and driven by Stu Denyes. For its first runs at Cayuga it was flat black
Don

Re the brake thing. Yeah I gained about 1/3 of the track against you know who. I loved it when he wanted to run me again and you Warren said to him "you just don't get it, do you."

I don't think he realized I was telling the truth about the brakes. I think he does now though!

hemikev wrote:

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always welcome another moparhead here,, we are out numbered here brother .. Kev

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 No we're not !! 10 Chev Guys equal 1 Mopar Guy !! We will always rule

Ok here is the bug. I was given this ruf body shell mainly because I can speak to it in its native tonque  Dulmage being anglizied from Dolmetsch . My pal Mike Siestma (41 hemi Willys and "Vintage" hemi FED) donated a bunch of 2x3 rectangular tubing he had inherited so to speak for the project. So there I was painting myself into a corner again. I started on July 2 this year. I got a Ford twin I beam (late 60s) and joined it for the front axle (all wugas fault. He made me do it) An old race friend gave me some proper front tires and I already had the 5.5 wheels so ?---. I whipped up a chassis using my special design 1/4 eliptic with shocks set up. (My rail is a 1/4 eliptic as well). I bought a 75 Duster diff and made a set of ladder bars with my own design locator bars bolted to the former pinion snubber bolts and connect 1/2 way up the ladder bars. I calculated the rear spring weight in deflections per pounds/ inch and made and mounted the rear springs from a set of discarded shock helper springs. I was nervous shortening them but once again math doesn't lie. They support the car, driver and body perfectly. I got a set of short speedway shocks and mounted them.  I bought a bus seat because it is 39 inches wide which is perfect so I have the worlds only bench seat VW. The slant six sits where the hood is and has proper gasser set back of 10%. I built it so it will take almost any motor. I just happen to have a surplus of slant sixes and race parts for them. This VW body was really tuff but I have enjoyed welding it back together and fixing the impossible. (I do not yet have a hood for this , a 73 super beetle) Oh there are days I ask why I m doing it. I certainly don't need it as the FED supplys all the motivation I need to keep going. I guess it was free and delivered and a challenge.

Anyway here are some pics of "DAS AUTO" 

Don

You can get you times there on your smart phone feed. They tell you how and make sure you have it at the drivers meeting apparently. I don't have one (cell phone or smart phone) and at this stage of my career no longer care. I just thoroughly enjoy being able to spend an afternoon with old friends and make three or four hair raising rides in my lil homebrew FED. How fast? The car I race the most runs 11.76 a Shannonville and I beat him badly now (no brake on during run. )

I no longer  allow my enjoyment to be spoiled by becoming obsessed with my ET. For me now going racing is like going skiing or something.  I am going on 64 and in deteriorating health. I can now  barely get in and out of the car. I can still drive safely but at best have maybe a couple of seasons running left. That  translates to probably 12 to 15 runs left in my whole life. Kinda makes one sit up and take notice when you realize the reality of it.  I intend to savour and enjoy everyone of them. However you will not have to look hard to find folks who have been smoked by this little bomb and never in a million years expected it. All V8s too and two of them in similar weight and style cars. If all  that makes no sense I apologise but simply put I am just thrilled to be there at the end of a long and successful racing career mostly as an engine builder and or car owner. As long as I am safe to drive I will continue. The fight has gone out of me now but the "little boy" in me  is still alive and well. So if you see the lil blue rail running and hear some  grey haired balding old fart at the wheel hollering "Yab Daba Do!!!!!!!!" that would be me. Some of my pals even here on this site understand. They are kind enuf as well to keep an eye on me making sure I am good to go and help me if I need it.

Yes I made the intake/header set up. It will be on the FED next year but I used the bug for a jig when I built them since it was easy to get at. Actually I have about two years development and work into it. Not something you can rush. I need it working right when I run. Not just ok but perfect. I am anal about that. That is why I am getting everything done now . Hopefully in the spring jetting will be the only thing left to deal with and that will be done long before Picton's Spring race.

Here is another one I made and raced for a couple of years.

Don

The screaming is the best part

Great info Don.

Janice