Truuble,
You were in Cali when I was, not far away too. It's good to see you're still at it. 11.22...you're so close to that 10 sec slip. Awesome! We're all curious to see what you run/ran with the motor back together.
Chris
Well . . . I think I'm changing combos again. I'm taking the car off the street and going race-only with it. So, I'm likely to get rid of the 331 and put a carbed, high compression, 460 in it. With that (and the weight loss from stripping all the "street stuff") I should be running 9s. In other words, I might be skipping the 10s all together.
And, with the 460 on spray, it should go 8s. I probably won't use nitrous for bracket racing unless I can get it dialed in to the point of predictability.
ya, was that the fun ford weekend down at california speedway? i was gonna go to that but i had work... but hell if i woullda known you were going i woulda called of work just to see your car run! lol. Plus dont feel bad about your time... i heard that track actually raises 50 feet in elevation from start to finish... so you were racing uphill and on 7 cylinders and still got an 11.2!! Sweeeeet.
Yeah . . my 60 foot was off by over a tenth, too. If I had cut my usual 1.59 60, It would have been a 10 second pass.
Well . . . I think I'm changing combos again. I'm taking the car off the street and going race-only with it. So, I'm likely to get rid of the 331 and put a carbed, high compression, 460 in it. With that (and the weight loss from stripping all the "street stuff") I should be running 9s. In other words, I might be skipping the 10s all together.
And, with the 460 on spray, it should go 8s. I probably won't use nitrous for bracket racing unless I can get it dialed in to the point of predictability.
Can you cram a 460 under the hood of that thing????
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Why don't you do a fuel injected/blown/nitous combo and use the same blower you do now?
Very simple, my son. I need my car to be less complicated.
I learned a valuable lesson at the NHRA Divisionals. Our team captain blew a head gasket in the first round. Because he won the round, he needed to fix the problem. His combo was so simple that he was able to change the head gasket trackside in about 45 minutes.
With my current combo, I couldn't even GET to my heads in 45 minutes . . let alone change the gasket.
No more fuel injection for me. No more computers. No more forced induction. No more complications. I am going big cubes, high compression, with a carb. And, I'll have a car that runs the number consistently.
I love that aproach. Simple is better and there's no replacement for displacement. Good luck with the swap. I'm sure this winter is going to be busy for you.
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I love that aproach. Simple is better and there's no replacement for displacement. Good luck with the swap. I'm sure this winter is going to be busy for you.
Yep. It'll be a busy off season. I have to have it all dialed in by mid January for the first points race.
Wow man, that's not long to get so much done. Good luck with it.
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Wow man, that's not long to get so much done. Good luck with it.
It's not as much as you might think. It's more removal of parts than addition. I already have Stiegemeir ported TFS HighPorts with 2.06 intakes that will flow just fine for the 460.
It's really a matter of swapping out the shortblock, getting rid of the computerized crap, and putting an intake and carb on. (ok . . it's a little bit more than that . . but not much).
Yeah, fabbing up motor mounts, rear crossmember, coolant hoses...yeah it'll be a load of work.
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- Ronald Reagan
Wow, I didn't think a 351 block would drop in to a mod motor engine bay so easily. That's info I need to tuck away for future use.
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Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
Sweeeeet.
