Royce you really are a diehard that's for sure. I love seeing stuff like this. If you take it to the rock I would love to see it run as I haven't been there this year. GOOD JOB ROYCE

for their project. While at Brainerd this last weekend I went looking for a certain red chevelle that was running about the same times as I was. I found him and was going to challenge him to a race as it is more fun when you have somebody beside you that is close. JMHO. It turns out that he was running a Tremec T600 I believe. He said it was not modified for more power and I did happen to watch him make a pass on Saturday. It looked to me like his shifts were very fast. So far he told me it has been bulletproof. This was a mid to low 10 second street car and must have weighed at least 3500 lbs with driver. I know Jay was thinking of building a 5 speed car so I am just throwing this out to show that maybe these trans are fairly strong. Because if my math is right he must have been putting down 650 or more hp. I am planning on one this coming winter for my car so wanted to see somebody using one in person.

I went to Brainerd International Raceway this past weekend to an event put on by the Minnesota Street rod association. It was all paid for by the MSRA so is a good event. Limited to older cars only like the mid seventies. If it was not for one of our members here on this site I don't think there was an Fe powered car there. I could be wrong but I didn't even see any 67/70 style mustangs there. Dean was there with his 427 powered 56 ford gasser project and doing well. There must not be very many Fe enthusiasts here in Mn that will actually "use there cars". I would have loved to see Jay there to show the Brand X cars how these things can run. But I know he is very busy with other things right now. There was even a Y block powered mid 60's pickup racing and having fun. Not terribly fast BUT he was there and having fun and showing brand loyalty. Just ranting I guess.

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Need to identify this pan

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so I know the amount of oil to put in it. Do any of you guys know what this is off of? I had it in the back room of my shop and it was pretty new but can't remember where i got it. I don't have the original dipstick as you can see. I just need to know the capacity. The engine does have a windage tray. One of our better engine builders in our area told me to keep the oil slightly below the windage tray. I don't want to have to remove the pan as everything is altogether. Hope somebody can identify it as I think it is a truck pan but don't know for sure. Embarassed I thought I knew how to add a picture but it didn't work HELP

I will definitely do that as if it works on my engine it should work on anything else. 

It really does sound like a fun thing to do. Maybe next year if I have anything that runs good I can try and enter it. It might be kind of a bucket thing I guess.

Hi Jay I do tend to agree with you about efi being a much more practical deal for street use, but as far as dominators drivability I use mine as an example. Being it and my brothers are the only 2 I have ever driven. I think it really ain't that bad as low speed driving and idle are pretty darn good. It used to kind of have a rought idle and mine ie a very old carb. I think it was Josh Knudsen who runs a BBF fox chassi mustang that told me to try drilling out the air bleeds on the top of the carb. (mine is to old for the removable ones) I did that just as an experiment as I am no carb guru and I can get a real decent 900 rpm idle now and as far as throttle responce on the street its not an issue as flooring it just lights up the tires. The reason I tried the carb mod was because some of the more expensize cars that I encountered over at grove creek idled much better than mine. I
 it would have been much cheaper too and quicker. On another note I sure am sorry to hrear that you guys aren't going to make it as it would have been the high point of my day to read the days results . It don't take much to make us old guys happyLOL.

Quote from: KMcCullah on September 08, 2012, 11:06:06 PM

I'm all for a electronically tricked out FE but I keep going back to Joe Craine's statement about the Dominators. They could have saved a bunch of time. But enough to have made Drag Week? Who knows. I'm really bummed about this though Jay. You and your team will have to wait a year for the pay off now. 

There are several issues with the dominators that make them much less practical than EFI for a street car.  First, they are pretty tall compared to efi throttle bodies and would stick even farther out of the hood.  Most importantly, though, with the big cams in these cars the dominators are not really tunable down at the lower engine speeds.  I can't imagine driving around in traffic with those cams and a pair of dominator carbs; they just wouldn't allow a low enough idle speed, throttle response would be non-existent, etc.  When I ran the Mach 1 at Drag Week in 2005, the cam was much milder (266@.050"), and it was a challenge to keep the car running with a single dominator on the Victor intake.  Two carbs would be worse.  EFI makes things so much easier in that respect.  Not that it couldn't be done, but with the night and day difference between EFI and carbs on these engines, I have no desire to go back to carbs.