The 352 hit the pump today....

[Royce]

Would this fulfill your 66 falcon vision?

[TomP]

I vote for a T-Bucket light enougt and no springtowers to interfere 

That or a Lotus Super 7 replica, get total weight down to 1200lbs with driver and she oughta go OK!

[shady]

I vote for a T-Bucket light enougt and no springtowers to interfere 
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I had a friend who bought a quality T bucket because he always wanted one. Said it was the most unruly and dangerous car he ever owned. Absolutely hated it. He sold it and built a Chevy powered 502-502 Boss Hoss motorcycle. Said he felt much, much safer on it.

[gdaddy01]

that is interesting .

[Heo]

I vote for a T-Bucket light enougt and no springtowers to interfere 

I had a friend who bought a quality T bucket because he always wanted one. Said it was the most unruly and dangerous car he ever owned. Absolutely hated it. He sold it and built a Chevy powered 502-502 Boss Hoss motorcycle. Said he felt much, much safer on it.
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I have a t bucket  Only that it have a Chrysler 25 Steel body. Built by myself with suicide front suspension byggysprung fourlink rear. Drives  real Nice and straight  down the road, and is realy fun on smal  winding roads, both gravel and asphalt. Just like a motorcycle but double the fun. Rode in a lot of buckets when i was in USA the last time, from V6  to supercharged bigblocks and non of them felt  unsafe in any way.  So your friends  bucket must have been built wrong in some way

[MeanGene]

Depends on how you do the frame and steering on those buckets- wrong is beyond twitchy. A friend bought on that was wrong, had a 340 Mopar in it- on or off the throttle too quick, frame would wind up and it would change lanes in a heartbeat

[shady]

I don't know the specifics on the car other than it had 500hp from a bb chevy. This guy was a master fabricator, mechanic but bought the car already built. He changed a lot of stuff, but could never get it to work to his liking.

[stubbie]

You need one of these.

[DubyaTF]

You need one of these.

   I'll take an XB if you're shipping them. lol

[cammerfe]

On the subject of T-Buckets, I have a friend who had one he put together with a nailhead Buick with six Strombergs. This was in 1964. When he first had it together, he put a padded pushbar on the back so as to not scratch my chrome and I'd act as his push-car with my then-new '64 Custom/427. We did that all through the early part of the season at Milan. I'd give him a push to start and let him go and then I'd run with whoever was next.

The 'talker' in the tower always got a kick out of it and regularly made comments about the 'fastest push-car' at Milan.

George had almighty trouble with the T until he got his front suspension dialed-in. But when it was right he could make nice clean passes.

KS

[blykins]

Joe should have the heads and valves this week. 

Dropped the oil pan to swap it to a deeper sump and checked some bearings while I was in there, then swapped the FE Power timing cover to the factory timing cover and changed all the bolts to AMK pieces. 

Should have it right side up on the engine stand again by the end of the week and then wait on Joe to do some carving.  (No hurry, Joe.....got plenty of other stuff to do right now.)

[Joe-JDC]

Hope not on hurry, got swamped since I talked with you, so first in, first out unless it is an emergency.   Joe-JDC

[WerbyFord]

I think the 66-67 Falcon would be a great choice , likely the lightest Ford that a FE will bolt into using factory mounts , and you could probably buy the worlds nicest 66 or 67 Falcon for 1/4 the cost of the worlds rustiest 67 Mustang!

NHRA files say the 66-67 Falcon and 67 Mustang CP 289/200 weights are near identical so good sleeper choice.
For about 30 lb more, the 66-67 Falcon 4dr sedan (super sleeper) weighs the same as the 67 Mustang FB.

Then again sometimes those NHRA tables are kinda funky.
For example:
* The 1964 427 Gal got 300 lb fatter compared to the 1963 427 Gal.
* The 1964 390 Gal only gained about 3 lb.

* The 1970 Mustang 428CJ only weighs 13 lb more than the 1970 Mustang 351C

* The 1971 Cobra 429 weighs 250 lb less than the 1970 Cobra 429. Musta been the factory aluminum block & heads LOL.

[blykins]

The heads and valves made it to Joe's. 

I've got a new deep sump pan and pickup on, as well as a factory timing cover and a full AMK bolt set. 

I've also got a set of T&D race rockers coming and will convert the heads over when Joe sends them back.  I had to helicoil one rocker stand hole on assembly and had resolved myself to putting Timeserts in, but then just figured I'd bite the bullet and not have to worry about it at all.   I'd like to try some more aggressive camshafts down the road and didn't want any trouble. 

I'm expecting the heads to pick up 30-40 cfm.  I think that will put me knocking on the door of 500 hp.  To be honest, I think we would have probably cracked on 450 during the dyno session, but the engine has full heat crossovers and we were round robin'ing pulls.  The intake was stupid hot. 

After the head work dyno session, I'm debating on throwing some compression at it.  My gut says I'd pick up another 30-40 hp by bumping the compression up 2 points.

Here's how she sits right now:



Pistons are sitting at .005-.006" out of the hole.  Quench distance was .035-.036".  There was no indication that the pistons were touching the heads but I'm not going to press my luck and go tighter.  Hardly any rock with a 1.920" compression height piston with .0035" of piston/cylinder clearance, but .035" is gonna be good enough for me on this one.



While changing the oil pan, I took a minute to check a few bearings....this is #4 main bearing:

[WerbyFord]

Brent do you have the HP & TQ vs RPM curve for this 433hp run?
Trying to look more at the peak area.