HEY! Where are all the fords at?

Oldsalt

Well-Known Member
#64
I'd love to be able to go there and see your car in action, I know it must have took years of dedication to get were you are.To be able see you in person and pick your brain about everything that comes to mind would be great for me:bowdown:

Rocco...
No years of dedication. One day my eldest son [not to be outdone by my youngest having a drag car] said it would be a good idea to build a land speed car. When asked where he got that idea he replied that he talked to a guy named Hooley in Oklahoma [has a Competition Coupe, blown, C class engine displacement ] and he guaranteed it was a good idea. So you can see I had no choice.

Drove to Texas from Washington and picked up a 53 Studebaker a friend had. Eighteen months later we had a good basic competitive car. Built it in a building undergoing a Toxic Waste Clean-Up; rent was low.

The great thing about the salt is there are plenty of classes and displacement classes so that a guy can actually build a budget car and be successful. For instance, the record for a 6 cyl. L-head, blown engine is only 117 MPH. An old Studebaker with a Paxton supercharger [off a 57 Golden hawk] set the record.
 
#65
Ok....I've heard them all
First on race day
Freakin old rusty dodge.
Get a nail get a board, put it together you've got a ford.

I always answer with
Chevrolaa Chevrolett shovel it home and let it set.

and "2013 shelby Mustang.

We'll see.
 
#66
Ok....I've heard them all
First on race day
Freakin old rusty dodge.
Get a nail get a board, put it together you've got a ford.

I always answer with
Chevrolaa Chevrolett shovel it home and let it set.

and "2013 shelby Mustang.

We'll see.
Don't let it get to ya, all my life I've been seeing chevy engines in fords:shrug:gatta be a reason for it.
 

65ShelbyClone

Well-Known Member
#69
Everything else is 'how it corners' or 'how it accelerates' which is to a great extent jaw music and 'Bench Racing'. There is only one definition for the word fast and that is top speed.
Yeah, some rag doll tied to a steering wheel pointed straight ahead is what I think of when "skilled racer" gets mentioned. :laugh:

Before anyone gets bent out of shape by that, I have fam that does land speed racing and I know that it's not just a simple matter of making power and going fast. My point is that all forms of racing are challenging.

CarHasExtensiveValveRattleOnLongExtendedTrips

:laugh:
 
#70
I know where some of the Fords are :laugh::laugh:



I have crushed at least two thousand Fords and countless others over the years:thumbsup:
 

65ShelbyClone

Well-Known Member
#72
I have fam that does land speed racing and I know that it's not just a simple matter of making power and going fast.
I'll add that the car has a BBC in it and they stopped counting how many times it has blown up. The car has broken some records, but nowhere near as many as engines. :laugh:

This may surprise some, but I actually like some GMs and Chryslers while there are Fords I don't like. :eek: I get a kick out of the fervent brand loyalty arguments. :thumbsup:
 
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Oldsalt

Well-Known Member
#74
What I have seen since 1955 re: Chevrolet, Ford, Mopar.

In small blocks Ford started out for the first number of years doing everything it could to screw up. Several different engines...they couldn't make up their mind what to manufacture. I doubt few Ford guys can even remember all the configurations...not so with Chevrolet. Chevrolet started with and stayed with one basic engine starting at 265 ci and continued to build on it. Mopar didn't have squat until the 340. Much too late and too little...the 360s were junk. Boat anchors, and damned few 340s were made, they were never in the picture. Chevrolet unarguably is the engine of choice for hot street cars or door slammer racing when talking small block. Can't be beat unless 3 times the money is spent. In other words you start out with a 50 mile per hour wind in your face to build anything but a Chevy unless you wish to be different and have a really good budget. From both a performance and reliability standpoint. To race a 340 Mopar would require a person to be totally uninformed or a glutton for punishment.

Big blocks: Again the fastest muscle car carried a BBC. 70 LS-6. My pardner owned a 70 Hemi Cuda. Knew better than to do any street racing with me although we raced everything else we owned. The BBC was and is not perfect. But in comparison to a Hemi it is a jewel. Hemis had a soft lower end among other things. The 'splayed' valve angle on the BBC made it breath as well as it needed without the weight and complication of being a hemi. Ever look at the valve gear on a hemi....scary. It should be noticed that few were made and Chrysler droped the engine from production ASAP. Currently if you want to go good in a hot street or door slammer competition you had best buy a Bowtie block BBC. The Ford big block is OK but it will, again, cost an arm and a leg more to make it go as well as a BBC. The Hemi? Unless a guy is in love with them rows of plugs in the middle of the valve covers and has money to spare [a lot] he best follow the path of all them guys that have BBCs in their Fords.

With that rant ending, I gotta say that it is a relief to see something other than a damned SBC in a hot rod/custom car meet. Everybody and their brother has one in their car! And always hooked up to an everyday T350 trans! When I finally find a, say, 36 Ford with a small block Ford I feel like cheering. Small block Chevy motors are ugly. And get worse with all the "billet" BS they buy out of a catalog and slap on them. Worse than Evolution Harleys.
 

65ShelbyClone

Well-Known Member
#75
I used to be really turned off by the general shift toward modulars because of this:



Then I saw video minutes ago of a stock 2012 Boss 302 doing mid 12s. :bowdown: That is a heavy car to be going that quick out of the showroom.
 

Neck

Growing up is optional
#76
The Mods (Cammers) have turned into some pretty decent engines, I had my doubts when they hit the market!
 
#80
Actually I own a couple Fords... One built Ford tough with Chevy stuff (Guess wich one)

I'm partial to Vintage Pontiacs, but own GM, Ford, Chrysler, vintage AMC, and even a VW powered buggy, so I'm cool with them all.
 
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