1965 Ranchero 445

[BOutlaw]

1965 Ranchero, 3200 lbs, 3350 with me in it. Engine is Jay's magazine 445, including Comp 306 S cam with OEM adjustable rockers, BBM heads by Blair, 850 Quik Fuel from Blair. C6 with Greg Slack 4200 convertor, reverse shift, deep sump.  9 inch, 4:71 spool, straight axle, leaf springs and air shocks....Hoosier 28-1050s. Street/Strip car, mostly strip right now.
Best time so far was at GBO 7, Atmore Dragway, last month....1/8th mile.. 6.80, 1.49 60 ft. 99.6 mph
Having a blast, just switched to one of Jays adapters and a Yates 351 intake. Next gasser race is May 5th. Have not run the car with the adapter yet.

[351crules]

what intake is on it now....very interested in the results of the intake swap

[BOutlaw]

Removed the Eddie Performer RPM intake and replaced with the Yates. Hope to make some passes this month. Will post results.

[BOutlaw]

GBO 6 pic, racing Wompin wagon 55 Nomad. I saw the wagon race in the 60s, been around forever. Bubba Cummins, the owner, super guy.
Trying to figure out how to post larger pics, so this was a test.

[turbohunter]

Cool as hell.

[machoneman]

Very cool! 

[Stangman]

Yes it looks like that picture could have been taken in the 60s. Very nice

[TomP]

Very cool, seems to run well too. What did you do to get those big ti...umm "Tars" under the back?

(edit to use correct Div 2 terminology!)

[BOutlaw]

The big "Tars" under the back was possible due to shortened 9 inch housing, new wheelhouse in bed, and cutting through half the width of the unibody frame rails over axle housing and boxing. I also moved the axle housing aft 1 inch by redrilling the leaf springs bolt holes 1 inch aft. The 28X 10.5 is about as big a tire as Ill be able to get in the wheel well, especially diameter wise.

[ec164]

Cool looking Ranchero, good to hear your having fun.........Al

[KMcCullah]

Removed the Eddie Performer RPM intake and replaced with the Yates. Hope to make some passes this month. Will post results.

Another interested one here. Is this the Yates intake with the 4500 flange? Any porting?

What kind of tricks are in your C6? I'm planning to build one soon.

Damn nice Ranchero too! Starting to get the Gasser bug.     

[machoneman]

Love the overall look and a great launcher too. But that ride is just screaming for a great paint job and some lettering! Any plans?

1965 Ranchero, 3200 lbs, 3350 with me in it. Engine is Jay's magazine 445, including Comp 306 S cam with OEM adjustable rockers, BBM heads by Blair, 850 Quik Fuel from Blair. C6 with Greg Slack 4200 convertor, reverse shift, deep sump.  9 inch, 4:71 spool, straight axle, leaf springs and air shocks....Hoosier 28-1050s. Street/Strip car, mostly strip right now.
Best time so far was at GBO 7, Atmore Dragway, last month....1/8th mile.. 6.80, 1.49 60 ft. 99.6 mph
Having a blast, just switched to one of Jays adapters and a Yates 351 intake. Next gasser race is May 5th. Have not run the car with the adapter yet.

[jayb]

My local porting guy ported the intake and intake adapter together for Brad.  It is an Edelbrock 2863 intake, which has the Dominator flange.  Should be real strong from 4500 RPM up.  Brad, what RPM are you currently running in that combination?  You might need a bit looser converter to really take advantage of what that intake has to offer, but it will be interesting to see how it does on your existing combination...

Edit:  Oops, I think I mis-remembered this, I think it is actually an Edelbrock 2992 intake with the 4150 flange...

[BOutlaw]

Trans was a TCI street fighter, and it came with the worst servo Ford offered for the C6, so a local guy, Nelson Temple, installed the "R"? servo and manual shift valve body. Transmission shifts great now.

The car started out as a street car but has just morphed into a drag car so I'm still reluctant/scared to letter the car and not sure of a name for the thing anyway. Lettering may happen, just haven't decided on that yet..

Jay, the convertor is a 4200 and seems to work good for what it is but I'm thinking I may need to go to a 5000 or so, especially with the new intake. Cant wait to run the thing....The miss I encountered with this whole over-rev situation may just turn out to be the sorry ass MSD cap and rotor. I also think it may need to be phased as the "hit" on the cap terminal is on the side/corner of all the terminals, not centered. I may do the drill a hole in the cap and use a timing light to see how bad it really is and purchase the adjustable rotor that MSD offers. My old MSD cap ( from over 5 years ago) has copper or brass? cap terminals and the new ones are aluminum I guess. The new plastic cap material even looks cheap.
FYI, I have rev limiter set at 6400, trying to shift at 6-6100....I also have a new 31 spline 4:86 spool, N case to install from Quick Performance, but will need a new driveshaft for the 1350 joints so I haven't moved on that yet. Need to be sure I can receive DS before next race May 5th.

Any comments on phasing or a better quality MSD cap/rotor that may be offered, I'm all ears. I thought MSD offered a RACE cap and rotor but have been unsuccessful in finding one.

thanks for all the comments

[fekbmax]

Crank trigger + locked timing + easy peasy rotor phasing = let her eat...
Rotor phasing is in my opinion very important with any kind of multiple spark discharge ignition. 
Very cool car, nice job..