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Originally Posted by Michael Kilduff
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Mark has run the 2 barrell set up for a long time. He had-and I think still has-a beautiful '69 Mustang that he has run with the 2 barrell and I am pretty sure he ran it as a regular SS back in the 80's and 90's. I wish I could remember exactly what configuration he raced back then, but I doubt he is hiding from anyone. He has always been fast.
And,FWIW, when the '69 was painted candy apple red it was imo the best looking race car on the planet. Last time I saw it is was white. He always did HUGE wheelies with that car. I wish I had some pics of it back then.
Maybe Terry can shed some more light on this. I wonder if back in the day the 2 bbl Ford had a big carb for the application? Seems like that was why he built it but I can't recall. I was just a kid handing out ET slips and selling race gas at the track back then.
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He used to run the old car as a 428 SS/GA for years back in the day. Parts became hard to get and the Alum. heads had not become avaliable yet from Edelbrock so he started using a production style engine. He broke quite a lot of the rare 428 stuff as aftermarket valves and rods were not legal then like they are today. The production combos could use all of the good stuff from Ford and the aftermarket. All of the 2 barrel production cars were restricteded to a 500 cfm holley in the beginning. Some of the "Slick" carb companies found a way to make them flow much more (Mark Young was one of the first to use one) so IHRA just made them all run a restrictor plate after it was discovered and allowed the carb guys to do what ever they wanted to the 2 barrel holleys. If the restrictor plate measured OK it didnt matter anymore what they did to the carb. You can only shove so much wind thru 2 small holes that was checked for legality. Marks bad DQ was getting caught with a delay box many many years ago.....LOL. He was suspended for quite awhile in both NHRA and IHRA but has played the game straight ever since as far as I know. I think he learned his lesson the hard way.