"Mr. Cook"?
Heck, they called my Dad that.
It's all about fun for me fellers, don't anyone get their panties in a wad.
The only reason to be involved in drag racing in any form is the people you get to associate with, the rest of it, when looked at closely, would qualify anyone for insanity.
Yeah Mike, I can't bring myself to install an electric fuel pump on anything.....the ol' car did run high 10's with untouched 186 casting heads and a hydraulic flat tappet cam, then I messed up and found some of them there "aluminium" heads and a solid flat tappet cam, whoooo-eeeeeeee.
Just don't check me for compression........
Still doing it on stock suspension, 9" tires, and some Atlas shocks I found in an abandoned Standard gas station back room......... one tenth quicker and I'll be in trouble in the tech lane again.
That hood scoop thing bothers me too, but somewhere along the line, the carb got too close to the hood, so rather than lower the carb, or raise the hood, I cut a hole in it.......