504" Cougar

[482supersnake]

https://youtu.be/31GjUJyEpaU

[410bruce]

That car's awesome! Thanks for posting!   

[KMcCullah]

Super clean build. The exhaust was done right!

[mike7570]

Nice clean engine compartment, front end is a little loose for street driving. Trying to figure out how he got it to run on 600cfm vacuum carburetors. (I think they said they were 600) I tried a set of those on my 452TP and it wouldn’t run right at all. Went back to the 660’s. I wonder if he’s giving up some hp with those carbs. Needs the tops with the equalizer port for the vacuum secondaries.

[shady]

Super nice car, but for the life of me I don't know why these guys shift em like my grand ma. Sounds like it has a rev limiter, so whats the fear? Breaking it or missing a gear? Come on, flat shift that bad boy.

[Gaugster]

Awesome car. I've been bit by the FE Cougar bug too! Totally understand where these guys are coming from. Thanks for sharing!

[Stangman]

Very nice like the color

[475fetoploader]

Definitely unique. Glad to see an FE in there.  Hard to tell from a video, amongst the tire spin I feel like there were some dead spots, maybe in the carburetors like Mike7570 mentioned.  Definitely a really neat street car.  I have a goal of driving up to Pacific Raceways, running 9.99, and driving back home. 

[cammerfe]

My first 427 car was a new '64 Custom. My second was a '67 XR7 GT. I scrounged 427 parts and assembled a fresh engine. Block was a '63 that I bored .030 because I had a set of C8AX-type pistons that were oversize. (We had Sunoco 260 readily available at the time.) I kept the air conditioning and the cruise-control.

It was a great road car with a 3.50 rear gear. And there were a number of hemi-roid-equipped cars around that didn't believe the gold T-bird on the front fenders.

KS

[Posi67]

I'm a Cougar fan as well but some yes and no from me on this car. Nicely done (not necessarily what I'd do) and $$ spent however it doesn't seem very fast despite the 750 HP claim. Owner does need to power shift as mentioned and it possibly  could use more Carb but if it made 750 with those, then why bother.  I've had the same 600's on everything from a 454" to my current 390 with no issues however I don't street drive. Bottom line (for me) is it's cool but not as impressive as the video makes it out to be.

[bobb428]

More than likely it has Moroso Trick springs. Loose front ends are really not bad to drive on the street with it being a hot rod. And the speed shifting thing, Tremec's are junk IMO! They hate shifting when spinning on the street. I know from experience!

[Stangman]

I’m with Posi 67 I had 600s on my car and they were just fine on the street and track. No hesitation and good power. I’m not saying something else couldn’t make more power but they ran just fine. I was just talking to a buddy of mine yesterday who had his motor dynod a couple of years ago and it’s in a fairlane that runs 10.10s/10.20s and it’s got 738 HP. I’m thinking this car doesn’t run low 10s but maybe it’s deceiving. Not sure how long that tranny would last with a set of slicks at the track. You can’t deny that the car is nice though.

[Blueoval77]

I saw this the other day when it popped up . I instantly noticed the curley Que headers and thought they must be REF . That X pipe does everything for that exhaust note... I am doing the same thing right now with 3.5" stainless oval pipe ..

[Falcon67]

More than likely it has Moroso Trick springs. Loose front ends are really not bad to drive on the street with it being a hot rod. And the speed shifting thing, Tremec's are junk IMO! They hate shifting when spinning on the street. I know from experience!

I've had Moroso Tricks and CE 90/10s in the front for years and haven't had any issues driving the thing.  I'm also like the Cougar, not set up to swing around corners like a Trans Am.  I see videos like this and remember how much fun it was having a stick in the car. 

[Barry_R]

That car is really, really nice - I like it a lot.  I am not a big fan of the gray paint and blacked out wheels that are currently in fashion, but have to admit that it looks good on the Cougar.

The TKO600 shifts like a broomstick in a bucket of gravel - so the granny shifting does not surprise me.  The front end looks a lot looser than it probably feels.  Don't know - or really care - if its a real 750+HP or low 10 second piece, but he's definitely got the pieces in place to chase those numbers.  I'd love to line up against him.  He aint gonna hit the tens pulling levers like that though...