[Doug Hoven]

Well it's been a while since I've added anything to this thread. I've more or less just been racing the car the way it was all season. In the middle of changing my transmission pan for a more purpose built piece, I ended up finding a piece of metal in the bottom of the pan. After getting much more up close and personal with a th200 than I ever had before, we found that it was a piece of the rod that actuates the parking pawl. The rest of the trans showed to be pretty worn, so I also discovered the not so easy task of sourcing th200 clutches and steels. With some luck, I sourced the parts, and the transmission went back together about a week later. The torque converter I've been running that has worked fairly well is a Dynamic that was built in the early 2000s for a 305 stocker. I had the stator changed midway through the season which has improved my 60ft times a bit. My most recent upgrade that I actually documented was changing over the front drums on the car to a good used set of wilwood front discs. An upgrade in another part of my racing "crew" meant that I ended up with these brakes. Was a very straight forward job, and with the addition of a residual pressure valve for the rear drums, I'm in business. Hoping to get out this weekend for the Mid-Atlantic S/SS series to test out my new brakes.