The NOS was set up by Angelo Lencioni who did the restoration of the car. Until he retired, he owned several McDonalds and was an NHRA driver for cars sponsored by his restaurants. He can't believe that I haven't sprayed the nitrous yet.

As for getting thrown off the track for going faster than 11.4 without a cage, now that would be a thrill, although Angelo told me that the car should turn high 10's to low 11's. Hopefully we'll find out as soon as I get a fan shroud or electric fans installed.

Here's an interesting article about Angelo.

CHICAGO -- McDonald's franchisee Angelo Lencioni serves big helpings of nostalgia along with Big Macs at his three theme restaurants north of the Loop here.

His River North 1950's-theme store has been so successful, Lencioni said, the past two years that he and his new partner, Donald, are expanding it to include a 1960's theme. Their other stores will feature a Wild West and an American Indian theme.

"We believe in theme and entertainment," said Lencioni, who just spent $50,000 on an annual sock hop headlined by Chuck Berry. Next year, Lencioni hopes to get a permit to close three city blocks for an expanded neighborhood theme festival.

The 60's and Wild West renovations are scheduled for completion in December and will cost more than $1 million, not counting the property acquired for the 60's addition, Lencionin said. Life-sezed models of the Beatles, authentic Beatles artifacts and nonstop 60's music on the jukebox will be featured. Beatles movies will be shown on closed-circuit TV monitors.

"This will be the busiest fast-food entity in the world," said Lencioni, who claims his 50's location drive-thru already is the busiest. That store, open 24 hours, does 175,000 transactions a month.

"You can take three Hard rock Cafes, and they will not do the volume this store will do," Lencioni said. Peter Morton's Hard Rock Cafe is on the drawing board for the neighborhood, and Ed Debevic's is located two blocks away.

The present restaurant is aglow with neon, chrome, black tile walls, a wall-mounted Wurlitzer jukebox playing 50's hits and a hologram of a plan to add a Coke machine dispensing antique Coke bottles and a coin-operated Digger machine that dispensive toys and a few expensive watches. Both will be operated with tokens custoemrs receive when they order McD L.T. sandwiches.

A Corvette fancier, Lencioni will station several 50's convertibles outside porperty, protected by Plexiglas bubbles. The first will be occupied by models of JAmes Dean and Marilyn Monroe. His next promotion will be a 50's and 60's custom car show in the parking lot next door.

The franchisee is now designing a 50's-style McDonald's uniform for employees that will be kept and laundered on the premises. About the only thigns he hasn't changed from the typical McDonald's unit ar the menu and pricing, which he is is not allowed to alter.

"I am an independent owner-operator. I can do just about anything I want," Lencioni said.

To personalize the drive-thru, Lencioni will install two-way color TVs and improved audio electronics between customer and the person who takes the order. Two order areas and two cashers are expected to double the speed of drive-thru service.

Catering and delivery are other services Lencioni has planned. His basement addition will seat about 90 for private parties.

His second McDonald's will become a a Wild West saloon, featuring a sheriff at the door, a long bar, a player piano and cowboy movies starring the Lone Ranger, and Tom Mix. "They will be the good cowboy movies where the good guys always win," Lencioni said.

The American Indian theme, with teepees hanging from the ceiling, a gigantic stuffed buffalo head and arts and crafts made on Indian reservations, is shceduled tob e unveiled near the beginning of October. The redecorating there will cost about $50,000.

"We run the AAA stores of the McDonal's system," said Lencioni, adding that other franchisees as far away as Japan have copied his 50's idea. Lencioni does not pay a public relations firm to generate ideas for theme restaurants or promotions. He grew up in the restaurant business--his father owned Armando's, a finedining concept. He majored in hotel and restaurant mangement at the University of Denver and worked for Fred Harvey's and for Armando's.

but working for himself, and for his "guests," as he calls his customers, is what Lencioni likes best. His expensive promotions are intended "to thank Chicago for being good to us."

What is surpising is most of your engine spec come close to mine, with the huge exception of the heads.  I have stock heads which I ported.  And the porting helped a lot.  It picked up 20 hp from that alone with low compression and regular unleaded.   One day I hope to put a good set of heads on it, but that a lot of cash later.

As far as break in goes, it depends on who built the engine.  If there is doubt, an easy  break in will cure a lot of minor flaws that would fail if pushed hard right away.

But the rings will form a ridge on the the top of the travel.  Driven easy this ridge builds lower, and restricts travel and in turn performance later.  Pushing hard allows greater power after break in.

I do my own assembly work.  As a result my C3 went around the block only a few times before it saw wide open.  With less than 20  miles on the engine work it was wide open on a dyno.