As promised, the torque converter situation turned real ugly. As it turns out, there wasn't enough meat on the side walls of the converter hub to take it down as planned.
After intense conversations with John Winter Sr. at J.W. Performance Transmissions and after giving him my new converter to modify, we compromised and took the hub down .110" and I had to massage the inside of the crankshaft with a grinding stone to gain the balance of the needed clearance. It was a painstaking, slow process of grinding, checking with a caliper, trial fitting the converter and repeating the whole process until it fit. This process took hours but it finally fits perfectly and the car is all back together.
Of course seeing that we were planning on running Friday and Saturday nights the weather forecast is 60% chance of rain. We decided to give up on any chance of racing Friday night and we'll go to Bradenton early Saturday morning to test and tune before the evening race. We just need to get a few passes in to prepare for next week's NHRA Division 2 points race in Atlanta. At least now we should be able to easily run the number.
Isn't it just amazing how much work goes into one 8 second pass down the quarter mile or one 5 second pass down the eighth mile? Phenomenal!
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