Mopar Muscle Association UK

Is the Dave Bailey (65 Signet) you mentioned also known as Dean Bailey? Or is it just a photograhers thing, hoping there a David Bailey out there who racers a Mopar??

yep dave bailey owns/races the valiant

OOhhh. Its just that I had an email from a guy called Dean Bailey who's also imported/bought a 63 Dodge. I asked some club members if they knew the name and I was told 'yeah, he's the guy with the 65 Signet'.
Someones been telling porkies.........

I know Dean AND Dave, keep getting them confused too.....you had me goin fer a minute there Rob

Dave, got yer PM....no problem, see you at Brookie. I'll file your nudie pic away till you get famous, then bribe ya

ok Dave

Dean built/had built, the orange coronet raced by Bill Mason, and is from sheffield, terry Deans new car is absolutley stunning it should put a lot of cars in the shade, it looks so original untill you lift the hinged 'glass hood, and it should run very fast the motor made 850bhp on the dyno with masses of torque

nice would be an understatement tel, the new car is awsome

Just a quick note about George Chiles' road runner,I've spoken to him today and he can't believe how the car launched like it did last weekend, see 1st pic on this thread, apperntly the wheel was even higher than that, the car is running a 496 stroker motor with edelbrok heads, m1 intake, BG mighty deamon 850carb, w/3.55 gears and an 11inch converter, it ran 11.6 at shakey last weekend, it was driven to the track (180 miles) slicks bolted on and raced! Altough slower than last year (10.8, pro-charged) George is much happier as the car is proving much more reliable, as last year he melted 2 sets of pistons with no apparent faults/problems, he bought the complete set up pro charger, carb, Aeromotive EFI fuel pump all as advised but still had problems seemingly at the top end of the strip, that is why he is back to a straight forward N/A set up

I heard Georges 'runner had started eating pistons, shame because I really thought he had the perfect set up, a really streetable 10 second car. I'd like to know what the cause was, pity he can't persevere with it.

I keep tripping over Georges old procharger , I'm starting to think about sticking it on the car, looking at pics of his setup I kind of suspect the fuel pressure regulator, it looks like an aeromotive a1000 which is rated to 15psi, which I think is marginal for that size of blower, and the problem would show up at the top end, I've bought a bigger a2000 reg on the advice of the guys at the turbo mustang forum, just need to do someting about the compression ratio as well so it probably wont go on this year
And I'm probably going to need some kind of roll cage fitting

What were his exhaust gas temperatures when the pistons went? It would either be lean at the top end, or the charge air temp would be too hot - probably the former since the boost level on procharger kit would be pretty low.

If the carb was built for the application, then yeah, the fuel supply is probably the culprit - you could always set up a high pressure fuel supply and an adjustable fuel pressure regulator, that way you could dial in the fuel supply and not worry about the engine needing more than was available!

Not sure what regulator it is jon, it is aeromotive but he was told which to get pump, regulator carb etc, we suspect that it was leaning out top end, very unfortunate but he is very happy how the car is now, still not many true street driven 11 second cars out there

getting back to deans new car,this thing is unbelievible,absolutely amazing,words do not do it justice