Blair, you seem to love building the torque monsters more than the high winders! I'm sure that the all-iron torquer you built for me doesn't make quite the big numbers that this one does, but it gets the towing done quite well regardless.
I like doing them David......thanks for the compliment. That one you have is a good piece. I'm partial to the FE period. They can be built for any purpose. I grew up standing on the tunnel of a '66 shortbed shifting the column for my dad when I could barely see over the dash. (May not be the safest thing, but I lived to tell it). Then a '69 F-250, then a '77 Camper Special 350, as a kid. We still have two of those three trucks. I do love the trucks, and I like making them pull when that is the task.
I've towed a lot of miles in all 48 lower states over my life. Every time I hit a grade, I look at the tach in whatever I'm in, and think of how to make an FE run there. We need maximum torque from 2200-4000 to tow heavy. I try to figure out how to maximize that range. If you happen to turn it more to get a good spot in the next gear, it needs to be up to the task. Fun stuff for me, just different from an 8000+ rpm race engine.
We ran a Stock Eliminator engine the day before this one. Sure was a different program. A DTS has a load adjustment knob on the console. This 469 wouldn't load at 2500....it was like it was driving through a converter. We had to crank the load knob almost all the way to pull it down to 2200 to start a low pull. Kinda funny.....it drew laughs from Jim and me once we figured out how to get the dyno to run it. We did some steady state and very slow rate pulls to get really good air/fuel data. We had fun with it.
