You bet!

I NEED the AC. Land speed racing means sitting in the line to the starter for as much as two hours. Try doing that when the outside temperature is 106 all day. The first time I went, I didn't know how fast I could go, and up to 125, all that's necessary is a helmet and a suggestion of wearing 'natural' (cotton) clothing.

When I went back, a month later, I had a full roll cage, a fire suppression system, and a three layer suit with CarbonX long underwear. I also had a Cool-Shirt and I sat and let the Lincoln idle with the AC on. It's still not altogether comfortable, since getting the 6-way belt system all attached, together with the elbow tethers, severely limits your ability to move. Getting it all hooked-up required the help of my crew chief.

The new car has the front of the engine hard against the bulkhead, and it's hard to get all the auxiliary drive system crowded in. I'll be looking at the all-electric AC. Thanx for the input.

KS

All of those accessories are now available electrically driven.  Electric power brake boosters, electric power steering assist, and as mentioned AC.  When I started looking, there was one company doing the power brakes, maybe more now, and there were two companies doing the power steering.  I know of one company doing the AC, out of the UK.  This is what I'm planning for the Galaxie to keep the engine compartment clean and simple.  All of the electical accessories can be hidden in other areas of the car.

My goal:
PS, PB, AC, large electric cooling fans, 150 amp alternator, and probably Jays adapters on a CVR electric water pump (unless I need a mechanical water pump to utilize its pulleys).

Due to fire wall/valve cover clearance restrictions I’ll probably need to use the HydraTech brake booster which will get hydraulic power from the steering pump.

It will be a challenge getting all this to fit the front of a cammer. Hopefully someone on this forum has done all it at least part of this, and has pics.

That is FANTASTIC!  Excellent!

I got the idea to match the gauge panel to the the factory dash pattern. This Saturday I gave it a whirl, here's how it turned out.

Those sticks are made by Cratex. Specialty made abrasives for engine turning. I'd highly suggest them. Made it look like I actually know what I'm doing.

The process was completely time consuming, took me about 5 hours to get done I believe. Because of the pattern, every move I had to make both an X and Y shift, couldn't just lock it in one axis and do a whole row (I guess I could have rotated the mill head, but that would have required some pretty shifty math ).

The problem is the long stroke you want.  As far as I know, the only way to get anything more than 4.375" is to go billet.  I don't think there are any forged units available with a longer stroke than that.

I understand $4000 for a crankshaft in a high horsepower race engine is justified. But it seems a little excessive for a 800 hp engine.  I want good reliable parts but I would think there has to be a crank that would handle 800 hp at 7500 rpm for less than $2k.

Thanks for the link!

I did a little write-up on the Tremec swap in my Marauder that may help

http://fepower.net/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=3970.0

Thanks for the offer of information and experience!  I sent you an email through the site.

wcbrowning, yes had to open up the floor pan, primarily to get the drive line angle correct and to get the engine back to it's original location. I used the original Z bar and clutch linkage with a new throw out bearing.

I did this about a year ago and had good intentions of posting it under Member Projects. Unfortunately I guess I got lazy and didn't totally complete the write up for the project so it never got posted.  I do have lots of pictures and the write up is mostly complete.  It covers a lot of the details regarding transmission mount, cross member placement, parking brake cable, etc. There was a few challenges that the kit from American Powertrain does not address.  I could share with you if you're interested. I would guess 63.5 and 64 are probably very close.

My car is pretty much all street use and I am pleased with how it all works when I got it finished.

There is a company called Morrison (IIRC) in Australia or New Zealand that makes an EFI cast cross ram for the 351 Cleveland

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Hi Jay,
Will that cross-ram intake system work on one of your regular intake adapters?  Because if it will, I think I'm going to have to make the jump to an EFI system)).
Thanks,
Dan

Sorry Dan, but the crossram setup will not fit my regular intake adapters.  The head is significantly different than any other FE head, and the induction systems I'm working on for it won't fit any other FE setup.

Sorry to hear that.  Any thoughts of a crossram system for the regular adapter in the future?