Hello there I have a 454 pretty much stock in a mud drag pickup. I have been to a couple of races this year but my last one it started making the popping noise at about mid range and higher rpm. My first couple runs it ran really strong never missed a beat. Then we started elimination and I had to run back to back races. Thats when it started. It was about 95 degrees out. It seemed when the temp of the motor got over about 150 it started popping when I raced it. I could rev it up at the line and wouldn't here popping it just seems when you put it under load it would happen. I pretty sure the I'm not floating the valves it starts popping at about 3500 rpm. I have a 700 double pumper holley. New plugs, wires, Mallory ignition, timing chain and cam. My first race of the year it was only about 70 degrees and it ran awesome but I don't think I had the motor totally warmed up the whole time though. Confused. Any advice is appreciated thanks.