1969 Torino

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by compos mentis

Dig these bad boys too.

Saw you went with a cast iron TP head.

Does anyone (besides Dove) cast an aluminum TP head?

Ford made some AL TP castings but good luck finding them and have a pile of $$ ready.

Two companies make AL SOHC heads and Blue thunder, Pond, Shelby, Edelbrock, Dove all cast Med riser style heads but only Dove does the TP. Plan on a lot of epoxy with the Dove stuff.

The Iron castings I got were really nice and the guy had the Dominator intake so I jumped on them. If I wanted to drop a bunch more $$ on filling the floors of the exhaust I could be looking at a 800+hp mill. At some point I needed to say the motor was enough and put the cash into the chassis.

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

FE - big time props for your vision and build plan. Im looking forward to seeing this monster coming out of a corner under full throttle ...

Thanks Ron. I really appreciate the kind words about my ugly duckling. I was at Fab Fords @ Knotts today, 1800 cars, half of them mutangs and a total of three Torino fastbacks.

Originally Posted by EBMC

Having had a 428 Mach 1 in high school, I'll always have a soft spot for FE motors. I'm looking forward to seeing this car come together

And that Mach you built a couple years ago is beautiful. In HS back in the 80s I had a 69 Firebird with Herb adams bars, Global West arms,WS^ steering box, 16x8 Ronals with Gatorbacks and a Poncho with a muncie. Torquey motor just like the FE super fun.

Originally Posted by Vegas69

You ain't playin...

The only thing I'd say is that cam is a little knarly for low rpm cruising in overdrive. I run a 252/260 @ .050. 110 LSA Good low end torque but it pulls to 6800 no problemo. Peak power at 6200.

Sounds knarly until you add in the CI. I think it will be ok. What the hell if it doesn't the rpm I'll speed up to 90 or drop into 5th @ .82