Here's another 1 that comes to mind. The same car 5 years later, SBC 400 bored .060 492 ported heads 620 lift herbert cam, STR10 crossram with 2 850 dbl pumpers and full MSD. Back then this car would run pretty damn good. Blowed a head gasket the week before on it, and had a race that night. Buddy came over and helped pull the head and replace everything to get it running for that night. I never checked the carb linkage for binding after he put it on. You can see where this is going, :shock: . Started to the local hangout about 7 miles away down a rural highway and decided to try it before we raced. My Ex was following with the jack and tires behind us and got to see the whole thing. So we tried a quick run to 85 it seemed ok, so I let off. Ok, nothing and I'm gaining speed fast. I'm now on the brakes to keep the speed down and still gaining. He says hit the pedal, and I said it's a cable it won't work. Says throw it in neutral and I'm not going to let it blow. Well I have already turned the key off about 4 times with no luck and he didn't see it. I realize then why your suppose to run the resistor they send with the MSD to kill the juice. Anyway, 1 other thing he didn't know about my car is that the steering wheel lock didn't work. He yells turn the key off, stupid so, I turn the ignition off, took the key out and handed it to him, and said now what :? It looked like 2 tug boat lights being turned on, as his eyes about popped out of his head screaming turn it back on, turn it back on, as he was trying to get the key back in it. :lol: Anyway at about 127mph I was still on the brake and started pushing with both feet to keep the engine together. Lucky for me I was to cheap to replace both head gaskets as the other 1 blew and I was able to get the RPM's down to 2500 and get it off the side of the road. He then jumped out and hit the linkage and it died. The next thing was out both front wheels(welds) was the glowing red and fire. I had a water bottle for checking the headers and had him spraying the drivers side and I unzipped and was spraying the pas. side to keep the wheels from melting. What a sight
ops: . Needless to say he helped me put the resistor in the next day before we changed both head gaskets.