'67 Rat Rod engine possibilities
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09-06-2014, 11:17 PM
I have built a few 300s now and they are fun engines. There is a car called the Frenchtown Flyer that is a drag racer running a wildly built 300, it looks like he has some form of crossflow head on it now. I haven't followed his builds since about 2004, but it's still out there being wild.
Nothing beats the sound of a base-3 engine IMO, with sixes and twelves sounding the absolute best.
The first 300 I built was overdone, and could spin 35s on dry pavement, but was finicky and got bad mileage. There were a few stock ones in there, then I hit a really good combo before I went diesel- I used flat top 360 pistons and a Delta mid-range torque cam with straight up cam timing. It was in a van, and with a 2.75 rear gear and C6 auto I could run down the freeway at 80 and still get mid teens. I even did some limited towing with it, and it did well. That engine was bored out to 4.080" to fit .030 oversize 360 pistons (the machinist thought I was nuts), but it didn't overheat even in 90*+ summer heat.
I've thought about building another one like a tractor pull engine, just to see what they could take before the final limits of the block and crank, but that's a long ways out right yet.
Nothing beats the sound of a base-3 engine IMO, with sixes and twelves sounding the absolute best.
The first 300 I built was overdone, and could spin 35s on dry pavement, but was finicky and got bad mileage. There were a few stock ones in there, then I hit a really good combo before I went diesel- I used flat top 360 pistons and a Delta mid-range torque cam with straight up cam timing. It was in a van, and with a 2.75 rear gear and C6 auto I could run down the freeway at 80 and still get mid teens. I even did some limited towing with it, and it did well. That engine was bored out to 4.080" to fit .030 oversize 360 pistons (the machinist thought I was nuts), but it didn't overheat even in 90*+ summer heat.
I've thought about building another one like a tractor pull engine, just to see what they could take before the final limits of the block and crank, but that's a long ways out right yet.
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I have built a few 300s now and they are fun engines. There is a car called the Frenchtown Flyer that is a drag racer running a wildly built 300, it looks like he has some form of crossflow head on it now. I haven't followed his builds since about 2004, but it's still out there being wild.
Nothing beats the sound of a base-3 engine IMO, with sixes and twelves sounding the absolute best.
The first 300 I built was overdone, and could spin 35s on dry pavement, but was finicky and got bad mileage. There were a few stock ones in there, then I hit a really good combo before I went diesel- I used flat top 360 pistons and a Delta mid-range torque cam with straight up cam timing. It was in a van, and with a 2.75 rear gear and C6 auto I could run down the freeway at 80 and still get mid teens. I even did some limited towing with it, and it did well. That engine was bored out to 4.080" to fit .030 oversize 360 pistons (the machinist thought I was nuts), but it didn't overheat even in 90*+ summer heat.
I've thought about building another one like a tractor pull engine, just to see what they could take before the final limits of the block and crank, but that's a long ways out right yet.
Nothing beats the sound of a base-3 engine IMO, with sixes and twelves sounding the absolute best.
The first 300 I built was overdone, and could spin 35s on dry pavement, but was finicky and got bad mileage. There were a few stock ones in there, then I hit a really good combo before I went diesel- I used flat top 360 pistons and a Delta mid-range torque cam with straight up cam timing. It was in a van, and with a 2.75 rear gear and C6 auto I could run down the freeway at 80 and still get mid teens. I even did some limited towing with it, and it did well. That engine was bored out to 4.080" to fit .030 oversize 360 pistons (the machinist thought I was nuts), but it didn't overheat even in 90*+ summer heat.
I've thought about building another one like a tractor pull engine, just to see what they could take before the final limits of the block and crank, but that's a long ways out right yet.
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Horsepower on Spike TV built a 300 last season...I think it's worthwhile to review the episode: A Buildup of Ford's Classic Inline Six | Horsepower | PowerBlockTV - Full Episodes
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