Thanks a lot man,,,it was a long jouRney but awesome.
Nitro headers cook off and crack fast. A few styleS were used and Don Long, Snake and the gang all liked this look. These are 'laid down' enough to hit your face from 20-30 feet away with a warm exhaust pulse.
I did you a long essay but it went poof so let me eat and can we share a bit more. And anybody can chime in on any aspect of this Hot Rod. You don't need to be a fuel guy to hear this
Snake was sitting there as we all ate and he looked at her with with pride and sighed, he then smiled and said; ''We beat them all'
This guy is a bit rich here, lean there, and I have a video of it blasting 5-6 feet of flames around 10PM. Awesome deal
I need help formating that. Yes many cackle cars we do are set very very safe. You turn the barrle valve, see pictures, rich by 1,2 or 3 'flats'. That means, you adjust that little hex link, which has left and right hand threads, one flat at a time, in increments.
That night, we did a filiming of the thing making huge flames. One trick was, 2 flats richer.
But this cackle car is not set soft at all. It is probably, just 'over center' in our opinion, based on many many tune ups in our book. The base tune ups are original FORD Drag Team data we kept, and built off of year after year, for decades.
OK, she was set to make at least 2500 Horses me and some tuner pals feel. Definitely more there but set to really pound the pavement. I still have significant hearing loss 2 days later
She ran a high nitro % number, lets say in the 90s. Note, many cackle guys play super safe, in the 70s. The was blower spinning over twice what is legal for us in Heritage now. We can go 270 at 18 over, so imagine around twice that? They key thing is how much compression, or down( Down means the pistons deck height is 150 in the hole, 200 down, 250 down, 400 down, etc)
A bunch on advance too. That is secret but she had plenty of Mag. You can over advance a blown fuelr and split the block right in half, fast. Seen over anxious guys do it idling.
The publicity on the car will be rolled out slowly, please watch the Rodders Journal who did an awesome job filming her. We go back 30 plus years with the publisher, and he sure is a wonderful person, as are his super talented crews.
Thanks so much
Given the strength of a cast iron POND block, and his Aluminum SOHC heads passing the test with flying colors, there is no doubt we can stuff an FE in the 5s now, no doubt at all.
My first calls were to key friends, and then to Robert Pond. He was quite pleased and I shared more of course.
I have invited him to many events but the schedules often clash. I am happy that he wants to run the Hot Rod Reunion some day, awesome !
Such a nice man too.
I hope all you guys like this stuff, and any of you can chime in and get a chance to hear a wicked fast FE on Nitro some day soon.
More soon amigos
Thanks for all of the emails too
