Why not just run a lead additive in every tank of fuel. That way you don't have to mess with the head. I did that in my 428 CJ in my 76 F-250 highboy for at least 10 years. Drove it everyday, had no trouble at all. Clint

Well we finally got the new headers installed and it's just in time for All Ford Day this weekend. It will be the first time we raced this year. All we changed from last years set up is bigger headers and were going to run more timing. Can't wait to see how she runs. Clint

mbrunson427, I can't wait to see your Mustang, and I bet she going to be fast. I think we found an oil pan that will work with our headers, we are keeping our fingers crossed. My shop is in Littleton, the name of it is Gorman's Tool Chest. Come down and we can BS about fast FEs. Clint

I was thinking we need to be at least 36, but you guy's are thinking more like 38 to 40? Another thing were not sure about is if we have the total advance coming in at the right rpm. It's a never ending quest to go faster. Thanks for all your help it's greatly appreciated. Clint

That sounds great, it's always good to see another FE powered race car. We are very out numbered. People can't believe we got an FE to fit in a Foxbody Mustang, and then when make an 11.5 N/A run. They really take notice. Well mbrunson427 hope to see you this summer tearing up the track. Clint

Have Brent grind you a cam, you won't regret it. I got one of his cams for our 445 in my race car and it made it a monster.

Took the Mustang to the track last Wednesday to do some more testing and it is probably the last time we will run it this race season. It ran pretty good, but my buddy that was running the car said he could feel something breaking down on the top end. We got 4 runs in and the best was 11.66@ 115mph. We only had 1 run that we won't talk about, all the rest were with in a tenth of each other. One racer challenge us to a grudge race so we said sure. It was a 64 Ford F-100 short bed 2wd with a stroke 351w with efi. It runs consistent low 12s, so realistically we should clean his clock. He got us out of the hole about a half car, but we ran him down at the other to win the race. We thought that's a good note to end the season on. We did have few racer come over to the car and could not believe we running an FE. They were very impressed and amazed on how well it fits and runs. Well that's it for this year, hopefully will be faster next so year I can post some impressive numbers. We do have some thing were going change on the car, that hopefully will make her faster or not. Clint

Well we finally got the Trick Flow track heat intake manifold installed on the 445. Took the car to the track yesterday and we really weren't sure how the intake would change things. We did jet the car up, from 87s square to 94s. When we were running the Holley Street Dominator we had 92s for jetting and seemed about right the plugs look really good. We don't have an 02 sensor so we have to do it the old fashion way by reading the plugs. When we had the Cobra Jet intake on we had lots of low end and not so much on the top end. The Dominator intake was pretty good all the way through the RPM range. Now the Trick Flow intake seems to give plenty of low end. We Foot brake launch at 3000 which is a little low for our cam, and we were getting some wheel spin coming out of the hole. the top end was great the car pulled hard all the way through the traps. We're pretty sure we founds some horse power now we just need to figure how to get it to the ground. The best run out of 3 was 11.77 @ 114 which is off our best by 2 tenths, but we're sure there's more to be found. Stay tuned. Clint