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steve'66
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posted 07-13-2000 02:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for steve'66   Click Here to Email steve'66     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well guys,

First let me thank all that helped us decide the engine combo for the 351w! The initiall results of the first Weds. night drags went very well and we're HAPPY and encouraged! We made 3 pratice runs before bracket racing and 5 runs during eliminations. Larry Jennings was present for the first two runs in 85 degree weather. I took the car to the track 'cause Melissa had to work late (so I entered it in Street Class - 97 cars entered),I took it on it's first trip down the 1/4. The old man (me) ran a 13.84 @ 101.67. Then Melissa showed up and ran two 13.9s. We dialed it in at 13.8 and she ran four 13.8s in a row in eliminations, On the fifth round her opponent red lighted so she gave it ALL and ran a 13.54 @ 104.2 mph! So we changed the dial in to 13.5 for the next (semi-final round) and she drew the left lane (all prior runs were in the right lane) which some Chebbie just puked oil all over and she ran a 13.78! She had him beat on r/t but....oh well! The plugs read lean, we know we need more fresh air and fatter jets. Also the 60'ers sucked! 2.2-2.3's. It was a late and especially gratifying night. One guy said to Melissa "you gotta get your Dad to buy you some decent tires!" My response was that's how you break things! Yeah it's capable of more and we'll get it down there, but it's everything we were hoping for. A great maiden voyage! Thanks again.

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WAY TO GO STEVE.....Sounds a little similar to my first trip...by the way....is Melissa for hire as a driver...expenses paid to the east coast ???? Sounds like she's got a little more "foot" than her old man..
How did the BFG's bite...was that your 60' problem??? I know my 60's are killing me since I went to street tires..just as the BFG DR's went to slicks and were hooking good, steel started showing and I had to trash them...by the way..what carb are you running and jet size if you don't mind.
Congrats again...now if you don't get faster and I don't get slower I smell a great heads up "match" race between the 70 Pony and the '66..remember my 13.44 and 13.67 with 2.23 and 2.43 60's....we'll meet half way like in Kansas...but no fair if Melissa drives..she's too good.

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Looks like you got yourself a genuine 12 second street car Steve. That is one hell of an accomplishment. Good job! Think about some 8.5 x 26.0 Mickey Thompson slicks on 15 x 7 or 8 steel wheels (aluminum would be better but more costly). They will hook real well but if you keep the air pressure up a bit,(20 lbs or so) they won't break anything. A little tuning and 12.50's or better. I guarantee it! Alex

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posted 07-13-2000 10:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for steve'66   Click Here to Email steve'66     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks Alex and Eddie!

We appreciate the kind words! Eddie, the carb is a 750 holley vac secondary with an added secondary metering block. Running a 35 squirter, pink accelerator pump cam, 68 jets in the front and 78s in the back. It's too lean now, so next time we'll try 72s in front and 78s in the rear. The vac. secondaries are using the lightest yellow spring and seem to come in smoothly at about 3000 rpm.

Alex, the hood is only about 1" above the choke horn of the holley and we need more fresh air! A 3" cowl fiberglass hood is on the list. Also, the rear pushes to the right on launch (in other words the car points to the left) which traction bar do I raise or lower? Thanks again!

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Steve, raise the left and lower the right. The right is obviously hitting first causing the car to move to the left. I like a gap of about 1 inch on the left and 1 and 1 1/4 inch on the right. Alex

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Very cool Steve and Melissa! I will get to see you all race sooner or later :>). I am so jealous, I need to get moving on my whole race car thing (I hate making decisions) :>). Once again congrats!!!

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quote:
Originally posted by Moneymaker:
Looks like you got yourself a genuine 12 second street car Steve. That is one hell of an accomplishment. Good job! Think about some 8.5 x 26.0 Mickey Thompson slicks on 15 x 7 or 8 steel wheels (aluminum would be better but more costly). They will hook real well but if you keep the air pressure up a bit,(20 lbs or so) they won't break anything. A little tuning and 12.50's or better. I guarantee it! Alex



Alex, I run 8.5 x 26's on my capri. But I run 11#'s of pressure in them. They hook great. My 60ft times are 1.686-1.700 usually. (I run 3.5 gears right now and thinking of changing them) Do you think I should be running more air in my back slicks?

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Yes Michelle. I would run at least 14 or 15 lbs. It should pick up the 60 foot a hundreth or two. Alex

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good job Steve...and even better job Melissa....say , a fine stick handler like that may be what my car needs too...i can't cut a green and decent light at all Melissa is maybe lighter than my almost 190lbs too eh??

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Hi Tom!

Yeah she's all of 100 pounds But there's no racing for us this week or next, because of the NHRA racing at Sears Point this weekend. We spent the day out there as spectators, and after watching Joe Amato and John Force the 8 second cars looked sooooo slooooow It's all relative isn't it? The people who haven't tried to run 12's with their street car have NO idea how hard it really is! At least at Sears Point, all the racers were complaining about the track. How was Hot August Nights? We didn't make it this year.

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Not Tom but I was up at HAN on Saturday and it was cool. I am gonna take some time off work next year and enter the '65 (gonna try and satisfy my need to show with the Sac Mustang show on the 26th) :>). Let me know next time you all are going out to the track and I'll try to make it out there with the '65 (I need to stop saying this :>).

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Well at least John Force won Funny car, against his partner Tony Pendagras, Both Ford cars! Tony redlighted, and they both went "up in smoke" It was a good day for the Fords!

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what work is done to the motor??i am just completing my 66 w/351svo bored 30over,crane
cam w/512 lift,1.6 roller's,edelbrock alumn heads with 190-160,edelbrock carb,freddy brown c-4,410's in the rear.i left the 8" rear do to i am not running any crazy horse power so the 8" should hold up for now..
your car sound's awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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66351stang,

Man you drug up an old post! The stang has progressed to 12.83 @ 110.3 mph,with my 17 year old daughter at the stick of the 4 speed. Anyway M&M gets the credit, Alex and others suggested the correct recipe and it all worked out great. We have the h.p. for low 12s but still have some suspension challenges! These guys are exceptional gurus and I wouldn't build a motor w/o running the combo by them first! In a nutshell the engine is a balanced and b/p'd 351w D4 block w/ l/w forged trw race pistons, arp bolts, 10-1 comp, edelbrock performer heads (2.02 intakes)out of the box (not ported) with a 282S comp cam solid, with crane roller rockers and toped off with a 750 vac adv Holley, and a Crane box with the rev limiter. We kicked butt on a guy with an '88 'stang tonight with a Vortex blower @ 9.5 # boost he was running 13.23s! The late model Chebbie z-28's are childs play. A couple dedicated chebbie men actually bowed to Melissa and said "this is the only Mustang I respect" along with "maybe" our buddy and his '67 428cj fastback that runs a best of 12.44 @ 110 mph. What can I say, we're having fun in this "chebbie town" we used to call Sonoma, CA! May the ford and M & M gods rule the earth

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Check out Traction?? thread to get the latest on this project, and again THANKS everyone for the tips!! If we can keep the rear from rising, Maybe some 40-60 rear shocks?? we can get some weight transfer??

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Melissa ,you gotta get your Dad to buy you some decent tires !!

Steve...rear end should rise, just not too quickly or too far. You may need very stiff shocks such as the Monroe Gas Magnum truck shocks (application:front of an 81 F250 4x4 as i recall) as car application shocks dont have anywhere near enough extension damping.

The front should rise easier than the rear if its ever gonna hook. 90/10 shocks are necessary ,some can be adjusted simply.
My car rides like some pillowy pimpmobile , but i dont drive it on the bumpy streets. :\

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Tom,

Thanks for the tip. What do ya think of Rancho 5000's or maybe the adjustable 9000's these are seriously dampened (non gas) 50/50 shocks made for 4/4's. I wonder if they have a shock that'll fit?? Maybe for the truck application that you mentioned. I'll check if you folks think it's the way to go. I love your comment about the pillowy pimpmobile, and that is a concern. Would you do that to your 17 year old's daily driver? Oh, life is full of comprimises. Maybe get her a Ranger for a commuter and a trailer for the '66!! Now we're talking!!
Thanks again for Everyones Help!

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Hey Steve,
Rancho Part #9204 for the rear. Externally adjustable, knob sytle, you don't have to remove them to adjust em
(much thanx to David Cole for that tidbit)

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Marcus, is that Rancho #9204 a double stud mount shock? Do they have a website with shock specifications on it? Thanks Alex

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Rancho 5000 shocks for a '81 f-250 4x4 are stud mounted top & 5/8" eye on the bottom # 5139. (that's not it)

The Rancho 9000 # 9204 is stud mounted top and bottom 18.65" extended and 11.29" collapsed!! BINGO Thanks Marcus


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Sorry it took me so long to reply, (I took the weekend off from the PC)

Yes Alex, they are double stud design as stock is AFAIK. I don't think they have a site with info. www.ranchoshocks.com says its "coming" I got the info from David Cole, I think Jon Clavert recommends the rancho's when you buy his cal-tracs..
If you do find a site with specs, let me know please

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No problem Steve,
thanks to David too

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Steve "Would you do that to your 17 year old's daily driver"??

well...i don't have a 17 year old daughter, but if ya got one to lend.....

the only thing that would concern me about driving my car on the road is the .0000001" rear tire clearance and the soft front springs and very little travel to the bump stops, and LOW headers!My shocks settle back down very quickly without bounce.

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Steve,
I was wonder what type of distributor and what your timing settings are along with any changes you might have made to the distributor.

I have a 68 coupe with a 289 that has a best of 12.93 @ 106 and and 1.91 60" times naturally aspirated. This thing just sucks off the line and I feel my problems are in my distributor. Adnance not coming in soon enough. I am running a mallory unilite with a MSD 6a box.

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Ted the distributor is a Ford dura-spark, recurved to 10 degrees @ 1000 and 38 degrees @ 3000 rpm. Mechanical adv. only. Oh, and a Crane box. BTW, you've got a healthy 289! Not as healthy as Alex's though He's "Da Man", and I'm sure he'll give you a few pointers.

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Are these good times? I'm looking for a 12.7 -.8 to be happy.

I'm using 12.5 TRW slugs, Ford motorsport cam 472 int 496 exh., Windsor Sr. heads, 650 dbl pumper and 4:62 gears behind a stock C4 with a TCI street fighter converter.

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Ted,

I think you're in the same boat as us. Shave .2 off the 60'er and you'll take .3 off the e.t. The 106 mph says you're making good h.p. Do you have a traction problem, or a bog? Can you run slicks in your class? How about a higher stall speed?

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It's more of a dead spot off the line, It kinda of lays down and then picks up and goes. I'm running 28x9x15 ET Drags @ 13.5 psi with slapper bars. No wheel hop. The motor really comes on after about 2200 or so. A torque converter would probably help, but I've been fooling with this motor this whole racing season and although I'm persistant, I'm also getting frustrated at the same time.

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Ted,

Our "problem" is lots of bottom end torque and getting it to hook up. Sounds like you've got the bite, but less bottom end. Advancing the cam will give you some bottom end at the expense of the top end. A 3500 stall convertor would keep the engine up in its power curve. I wanna step aside and let the experts give you some advice. Alex for one has been there and done that with the 289 and auto.

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Hey Ted,
Get bored of RAMFM and AHPBBFM?
How is the 460 project coming?

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still undecided. every time I go to the salvage yard looking for a good core, I find myself thinking I'm almost there with the 289.

The 460 is not abandon. Just delayed for a short while. I do want a 10.90 car. But if I can't get my setup to run 12.79 there is no need my jacking around with a big block..

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That's very true...
BTW what shocks do your run on yours?

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Using the Summit special adjustable 90/10's.
I was hoping this would help my 60' times. But murphy's law struck and it appears this was not a wise expense at this time. MAybe they will help once this dog can leave the line.

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Thanx, I am in the middle of deciding on shocks right now, I am about settled on rancho's out back and either summit brand or the comp eng. adjustables up front.

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Ted, first things first. You say that you have TRW 12.7 to 1 slugs. Are those the L2249F pistons? Have they had flame slots cut into them? Your sixty foot times at in the 1.91 range? That is very poor for the 12.9 ET's and big speed that you run. There is an efficiancy problem somewhere off the line. In contrast Tony's car runs 12.60's to 12.70's with a 1.60 sixty foot time at only 103 MPH. It's all about efficiancy. If you do not have the flame slots, then you MUST run the timing higher for the spark to get around the huge dome of those TRW pistons. Get back to me with more details please. Alex

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those are the pistons. no flame slots but the pistons were notched to clear shape of the windsors combustion chamber. The rest of the specs are:

balanced assembly, Windsor Sr heads, Performer RPM intake, Holly 650 dbl pumper with 1" spacer, holley blue fuel pump with regulator ( 6 psi), FMS cam 472 int & 296 exh. lift. Unilite distributor, initial timing is at 18. Not sure of total at this point. Put new balancer on and don't have new tape on it yet. windage tray. Had timing as high as 21 initial but ran hot as hell. C4 with TCI street fighter converter, 4:62 gears on a spool. crossing the line at 6k. Carb is running 50 cc accel pump with black cam. 71 pri and 76 sec jets.. With the timing bumpeds to 21 it got off the line better.
I also ordered the advance curve kit for this distributor and will be playing with that tommorow at the track.

I have kept a faily decent log of the things I have changed and the biggest difference was the accelerator pump cam on the pri side. This help a lot off the line but it still seems limp.

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From:Lyons, IL, USA
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posted 09-19-2000 03:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moneymaker   Click Here to Email Moneymaker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ted, with those pistons, I used to run as much as 44 degrees of total timing to get maximum performance. (no flame slots) I had full advance in by 1800 RPM with a mechanical advance Accel BEI. Install the lightest springs that you can and set the timing to 42 degrees at 4000 RPM. Try that first and then go up 2 degrees at a time until it slows. You will probably have to jet up two sizes also. I used lots of those pistons over the years. My body man has one of my old 289 bracket motors in a 2800 LB Pinto with those pistons in it and it runs 11.30's and 11.40's all day at 114 MPH. I have flame slots in that one because I learned about the problem years ago, but we still run 40 degrees of timing in it for best results. Alex

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tedster
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From:Friendswood, Texas
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posted 09-19-2000 03:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for tedster   Click Here to Email tedster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
2800 lb. pinto.. My 68 coupe is only 2765 with me and 8 gal. of fuel.
If weather is good tomorrow, I'll post any progress.

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TomP
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From:Delta BC Canada
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posted 09-20-2000 02:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for TomP   Click Here to Email TomP     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
yeah a 2800lb Pinto must be a 77 wagon my 72 hatch weighed 2300 with a pretty bare interior but had a roll bar.289 and toploader

the compression is likely nowheres near 12.5:1 with the 64cc Windsor Sr heads, they usually rate them with 54 cc heads.
This may be a case where cutting the dome down helps power even tho it lowers CR.The quality of gas is another factor.

Cam is way to small and convertor needs to be much higher stall speed, or better yet a manual trans

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64 T-Boltish Fairlane 427 HR 4spd 10.05 at 133.7 so far ...arrgh ><this close!!
and another 64Fairlane project 428 4spd
53 F350 ramptruck 428 4spd
88 Ranger 5.0 5speed
'bout half of a 67 Mustang FB was a 390 :-(

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Moneymaker
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From:Lyons, IL, USA
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posted 09-20-2000 03:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moneymaker   Click Here to Email Moneymaker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Let me clarify that some more. 2500 lb. Pinto sedan with a 300 lb. driver. Alex

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