[Karl Bebout]

My frame is a home made 2"x4" with 3/16" wall. 9" Ford live axle, 4 link, panhard bar, Mustang II front end. I changed out the upper and lower A arms for tubular and got rid of the strut arms. Still have the MII spindles but used adapters for larger 10.75" Chevelle rotors and calipers and I have the 2 1/2" x 11" drums in the rear. I run a bored and stroked 454 Chevy that's 496 ci that dyno'd at 552 HP and 594#s of torque at the fly wheel. I've been running a Hughes TH400 with a 10" converter for several years and am thinking about going to a 4L80E overdrive. The car is 90% for street with the occasional trip to the drag strip. The best I've done is 11.14 on gasoline and 10.74 with a 100HP shot of NOS. I've had the car 12 years and have put about 30,000 miles on it. Jack Kube is cutting off the rear section of the frame and the four link brackets on the rear end housing to put on a better set up since it had been twisting the car so badly that it would carry the left front tire a foot off the track, clear through 2nd gear, when I was racing. I was getting stress cracks in the fiberglass and the frame is now tweaked to the extent that the right front frame rail is 1" closer to the ground than the left side. Jack will also be correcting that and adding additional gusseting and some more re enforcement to hopefully stop the twisting and to get the car to launch straighter. I'm thinking I should be able to get the car into the 10's on gasoline, if I can get it straightened out and then, and then, and then, the nitrous....