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FE Technical Forum / Re: Dyno Mule II
« on: August 18, 2018, 03:00:16 PM »
Actually the original "Dyno Mule" still exists.  About 15 years ago I had all my old stuff in storage, it was costing me about $100 a month to store all these old race parts & the "Mule".  So I went to see my old race partner, Al Vanderslice to see if he was interested in buying this stuff.  His response was "I probably can't pay you what you think this stuff is worth".  I said "Try Me".  He made me an offer and I took him up on it, under "Cutting the Losses".  The "Mule" is, to this day, sitting on a engine stand in his shop.  My thoughts about all those old parts was "If I do this again It's gonna be with new stuff".  Well here we are, so it gonna be "New Stuff".

My perimeters for this thing are "Street-able" with a cam I could live with on the street, because this thing just might end up in my '62 Fairlane.  So far I've got about a truck load of parts staked out on Ebay.  But building a short block will come first. 

Gonna do lots of unconventional stuff, just like Sinatra, "My Way".

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FE Technical Forum / Dyno Mule II
« on: June 03, 2018, 12:13:20 AM »
Years ago I built a 390, as a Dyno Mule, just to find out what some of the stuff I'd been running in my dragster, before I had a dyno, was worth.  I spent about a year testings, tearing it apart and testing some more, even blew it up a couple of time, but I learned a bunch.

Well I'm going to do it again, with a another 390.  I call it Dyno Mule II.  I've researched several combinations.  I looked at building a 440, but backed away because I want to run flat top pistons with about 10:1, so I can street drive this thing when I'm done testing, taking pictures & writing about it.  With a motor that large it requires pretty large chambers to stay at 10:1.

So I've settled on a 4.060 bore & a 4.125 crank for 427 inches.  I like this, it has a nice "Ring" to it, after all it is a 427, well sort of.

So far all I've got is a 390 Block that will clean up at 4.060, a pair of C!AE-A heads and my old flow bench, which I fully rebuilt last year.  You can see my flow bench @ http://www.davenettlesgospelmusic.com/thegreatflowbenchrebuild.html  I'm also working on a CNC porting mill, but it's got a ways to go.

I'll be back from time to time as all this comes together.  So later, until I'm here again.

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