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FE Power Forums => FE Technical Forum => Topic started by: 6667fan on September 17, 2024, 01:11:47 PM
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I have not seen a take away anywhere.
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Best my 59 Meteor at Beaver Springs was 12.76 @ 106 MPH. We only ran 1/4 mile on Thursday and Friday, due to rain Saturday morning, which put us running 1/8th mile for Saturday. At my home track I have gone a best of 12.54 at 108 MPH so far. I weighed the car at the track, with 1/2 tank of gas, and me in it, it was 4025 pounds.
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Seeing as how Beaver Springs is uphill all the way, that seems like an expected outcome. Wish I could have made it, to thank you in person for all the good advice you've given me over the years.
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I didn’t even know Beaver springs have scales would have loved to weight my car too. Rory’s car not only runs good it looks good to.
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any pics of Rory's merc?
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(https://i.postimg.cc/mrN4FcrJ/2427-CF28-D505-4-FD6-88-F8-B064-A44-DC2-FF.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/mcDJvgCy)
(https://i.postimg.cc/Y9dwbJYx/EBBF366-A-BA93-4-BAB-ADBE-2-F3838930-D01.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/mz1qrpdc)
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That's some good stuff right there.
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Thanks for posting a couple of photos, Kevin, I have never been able to figure out how to post photos from my cell phone on this site. Calling my car a "Mercury" is kinda confusing, it is a Canadian model, called a Meteor , which anybody familiar with 50s Ford cars, would readily recognize as a 59 Ford, not a Mercury. However, the Meteors, although based on Fords, at least from 1949 thru 1961, were sold at Canadian Mercury dealerships, (along with Mercury trucks, which were essentially Fords, with Mercury badging, and a tail gate with "MERCURY" stamped into it). But realistically, other than a fancier grill, emblems and trim, the Meteors were basically Fords. The Meteors were built at the Oakville Ontario Canada Ford plant, alongside regular Ford models, so both Fords and Meteors were rolling down the same assembly line at the same time, and were both common sights on Canadian roads in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. As for the scales at Beaver Springs, they are located on a raised platform, under a roof, not far from the staging lanes, near the dragstrip surface. If anybody that was there this year, it was near where Faron was pitted with his supercharged red 68 Mustang. Faron helped me weigh the car, those scales are the old style balance beam with sliding weights style, but seemed pretty accurate, based on what Faron said his car weighs, and the difference of my car, with and without me in it.
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Thanks for posting a couple of photos, Kevin, I have never been able to figure out how to post photos from my cell phone on this site. Calling my car a "Mercury" is kinda confusing, it is a Canadian model, called a Meteor , which anybody familiar with 50s Ford cars, would readily recognize as a 59 Ford, not a Mercury. However, the Meteors, although based on Fords, at least from 1949 thru 1961, were sold at Canadian Mercury dealerships, (along with Mercury trucks, which were essentially Fords, with Mercury badging, and a tail gate with "MERCURY" stamped into it). But realistically, other than a fancier grill, emblems and trim, the Meteors were basically Fords. The Meteors were built at the Oakville Ontario Canada Ford plant, alongside regular Ford models, so both Fords and Meteors were rolling down the same assembly line at the same time, and were both common sights on Canadian roads in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. As for the scales at Beaver Springs, they are located on a raised platform, under a roof, not far from the staging lanes, near the dragstrip surface. If anybody that was there this year, it was near where Faron was pitted with his supercharged red 68 Mustang. Faron helped me weigh the car, those scales are the old style balance beam with sliding weights style, but seemed pretty accurate, based on what Faron said his car weighs, and the difference of my car, with and without me in it.
Thats cool! Pretty sleepy and as Canadian as a Massey Harris combine!! Tom just told me recently that you had moved back east, I didn't know.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/mrN4FcrJ/2427-CF28-D505-4-FD6-88-F8-B064-A44-DC2-FF.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/mcDJvgCy)
(https://i.postimg.cc/Y9dwbJYx/EBBF366-A-BA93-4-BAB-ADBE-2-F3838930-D01.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/mz1qrpdc)
Thanks Kevin!
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Thanks for pics Kevin.
I changed the header to reflect the correct manufacturer.
Love the color combo on that Ford
She get powershifted as per your usual approach Rory?
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Thanks for pics Kevin.
I changed the header to reflect the correct manufacturer.
Love the color combo on that Ford
She get powershifted as per your usual approach Rory?
Yes, once I got it rolling I powershifted it, at a whopping 5400 RPM, but I know that I am leaving some ET on the table, babying the car off the line. The transmission is a small spline Toplader, from a 66 Fairlane with a 289, so with a 428 and over 4000 pounds, I am trying to keep the trans intact, so I am driving the car off the starting line pretty gently, holding the RPM to 2000-2500, and letting the clutch out fairly slow and smooth, and not nailing the throttle until the clutch is all the way out. Wish I could launch it like the Fairmont, dumping the clutch at 6000+ RPM, but with the 59, not sure that would even work for one pass!