So it was the car :headscratch:

All these decades I thought it was me :rolleyes:

:popcorn2:

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Mine would've made 710 hp with great heads, 270 cam, single plane, and a bigger carb. Oh ya, the extra 9 cubes would have helped also. I'm sure the torque would've went from 641 to 670 as well. :action-smiley-027: :D

She's still running great. The new owner just updated me on Sunday.

P.S. On pump gas.

It should made 750 with those things you listed. :rules:

Buyer making any changes yet, small or large?

I feel your pain mine was held back by those stock 45 year old Ford Iron head castings also.

I guess we'll have to live with our actual #s until we build something else, won't we.:lmao:

"Cale Yarborough, right, fought Donnie, far left, and Bobby Allison in 1979.

Cale Yarborough, muscular and tenacious, quit the Clemson football team to race stock cars.

Apparently, people do not ask him about his titles in 1976, ’77 and ’78 as much as they ask him to recall the second race of the 1979 Winston Cup season, the Daytona 500 on Feb. 18. Yarborough helped make Nascar nationally famous that day.

Richard Petty won the race, but Yarborough got into a fistfight with Bobby and Donnie Allison in the infield after he and Donnie Allison thumped into each other several times while racing on the backstretch at Daytona International Speedway.

It was the first Nascar race to be televised in its entirety to a national audience, and the fistfight, not the race itself, caused a commotion. More people started tuning in to races on Sundays to see what these good ol’ boys might do to each other next.

“I’ve told that story several million times, and I’ll do it again,” Yarborough said in a teleconference last week. “I had the fastest car and had it set up to where I could slingshot him on the last lap. That may have been a mistake on my part.”

After a pause, he said: “I should maybe have gone on and passed him, go on and won the race handily. I was trying to make a show out of it. Unfortunately, it really came out to be a show. It was one of the best things ever happened in Nascar.”

Yarborough said that he made up with the Allisons the next day and that they had been friends ever since. Bobby Allison, who won the championship in 1983, visited Yarborough at his farm recently, he said. It is still probably the most famous racing fight."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/sp...scar.html?_r=0

I didn't want to rub it in that deep, but what the hell. :lol:

He hasn't changed one thing. He loves it...... I had emailed him due to a buyer that wanted his contact info to buy the car. He told me that he wouldn't sell it for any amount of money.

I keep telling him injection and tail pipes and that car is DONE. He did say that he's starting to get the bug to take it to a couple events come spring with his Son. :thumbsup:

Some of us back up our big mouths. :guns: :lmao: Time will tell in your case.

Only a Ford owner would put cast iron heads on an aluminum block.....

:computer: :thumbsup:

I'd add hyd roller to that list and it's a cooler version of the LS. :D

Agreed, Chris' engine fits his personality perfectly. They like to tinker and adjusting valves is a good father/son project.

:mock: Well it's a dyno thread so as soon as you actually build something better feel free to post. :thumbsup:

:cheers:

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Bring back some memories :headscratch:

:lmao::lol: :lmao: :lmao: You :lmao: you :lmao: :lol: :lmao: Win :lmao:

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:cheers:

I have a dumb idea about running my motor on a different fuel.

I know it is a dumb idea because it is DG's idea. :bitchslap:

Really something Dave came up with?

Yes I am running with one of his ideas :lostmarbles:

Despite knowing better I am going back to the dyno with some different pump gas the first week of March. :lostmarbles:

There is the smallest of chances DG may actually dyno his motor that same month. I doubt it but anything is possible.:mock:

I don't blame ya for wanting to close the gap a little bit. I'd hate to get beat by a 100+ in this contest too. :D

:peepwall:

Oh your machinist bill will easily beat me by $100+ before that thing ever runs .... no chance of me closing that gap. :popcorn2:

Is this thread dead or what?

I heard that big cube FE was going for a "do over" since someone wasn't happy with the numbers first time around.

:peepwall:

:(
DG wouldn't you be the one with the "do over" motor :popcorn2:

My FE is going back on the dyno tomorrow. The starter on the dyno took a crap last time so I didn't get to fully test the 4150 carb that was built for the motor. Then I lost my mind and bought into some knuckleheads alternative fuel idea.

So tomorrow it goes on the dyno for a baseline run with my 1050 then some tuning runs with the 4150 on gas.

Then a few runs with the new carb on E85. I couldn't make it for this session.:(

:popcorn2:

I'll just need one dyno to put this dinosaur in its place. :smiley_smack:

Are we gonna get video of round 2?

When will that be 2014? :bitchslap:
:mock: :lmao: :lmao:

Don't think I'll get any video from Blair.

:lol:

:tictoc:

Zzzzzzz....

Jerdawg FTW! :lol:


I too believe in the Chung.

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...psab2154ad.jpg

I'm sorry were you guys talking. I couldn't hear you with the dyno running in the background. :popcorn2:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...ps45cd9e16.jpg

:lol:

Classic³!

Corn it's not just for breakfast anymore

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:hello: :hello:

After watching just a little of that vid I can safely say...



:hello:

:lol:

What's holding up the new dyno numbers from the man with two first names?:lol:

He didn't go to Pettis :D

:lol: :smiley_smack:

We're gettin there.... my guy doesn't have cat or muscle pull excuses... just things like 1600 hp motors in the queue ahead of me. :poke:

Short block assembled today.
Heads and cam installed by end of week.

The next (and hopefully last) big project on this deal is machining and clearancing of my Hendricks pan. It is designed for a 3.25" Nascar stroke crank with tiny counterweights -- not the 4" stroke I got with beefy counterweights. I told him to just cut the sucker and make it work. I can't get a deeper pan because I'll run into subframe/Xmember issues.

Dropped off my E85 carb, fuel log/reg, oil lines, dizzy, vacuum regulator & CV nickel plated fuel pump. Almost everything needed to get on the dyno. Just need my oil tank and it's ready to go.

So the pan is the big question mark now as far as timing.... hoping that doesn't give Rob the time now so he can change his pistons to up the compression and then run again just to try to close the gap that is coming to a dyno near you.....

:hello:

I was talking about Blair Patrick but what the hell..... :lol:

Sounds good man! You'll be breaking some hearts soon.

Oops. :tiptoe:

Well my hillbilly friend down south only has some printouts from the runs no electronic files. I'll scan the printouts when I get them.

I couldn't make it to the run so all I have is what he wrote me.

Ran a baseline on the gas carbs first then switched to E85.

Highlights

10 inches of vacuum, and the good gas, and made 641 TQ at 4900, and 700.7 HP at 6400. Made a bunch of 690 somethings across the top on hp, and a bunch of 630+ torque numbers from around 4000 up to 5200. I did not touch it from the last pull at Jay's, other than to relash the valves, add the plate under the plenum, and seal the vacuum.

The 850 gas carb made 635 TQ and 687 HP. It was a tad fat. I didn't want to waste too much time, but we figured a jet change would have put it right there on torque, and maybe 5 hp down up top versus the Dominator. It was definitely smoother, and would race better.

The E85 was smaller than the gas 4150..........1.590 venturi vs. 1.500. It was better than the Dom below 4000 rpm,and equaled it up to 5800. Peak torque was 642 at 4900, and power peaked at 698 at 6300. It was 10 better on torque at 3500 rpm. We couldn't pull it any lower without doing a bunch of re-adjusting on the brake, but we could tell the small carb E85 is MUCH better below 3K.

WHAT no fricken video??:bang:

Looken good Robby