Thanks for the nice words, Dave. For those that don't know, Dave is at the top of an elite group of shooters, world wide.
As to the car, it's a '68 Nova that I run in NHRA Stock Eliminator class with a 327-275 horse combination. In Stock, you have to have the stock lift cam (.390/.410 in my case), stock compression ratio, stock intake and carb (cast iron with a QJet) and basically unmodified heads with stock valve sizes. My car runs in G/SA which has a NHRA index of 12.00. To date, it's been in the low 11 teens in decent air at 116 mph.
Since we have such tight rules, we work hard for every couple of extra horse power we can get. I'm lucky to have a private dyno facility to test at. Recently, I spent a couple of days testing oils and came away with some meaningful power increases.
The race car shop I work out of. With three cars to maintain, it gets busy coordinating testing, parts delivery, etc.
Some days I feel like this:
This was my last really good race car before getting serious about my education and raising a family.
I can add to this occasionally, if people are interested. As this is primarily a 'W' block site, I'd add that I mostly paid my way through Radiology school and supported a family by buying and selling 409 cars, parts and doing engine work "...back in the day". This was a '62 that I did in the early '90's. It was a local car it's whole life and ended up battered by it's constantly intoxicated owner. I was able to buy it and it ended up pretty nice.