Can A Stock 292 Spin the Wheels?

matt2491 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 11:15 PM

And more importantly, without destroying the engine? Come on, there's got to be some of you guys out there that are really tearing it up!

FXDC4419 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 10:08 AM

I had a 1957 f100 many years ago, with a 292 and three on the tree. I taught my wife to drive it and she had never driven a stick before. she could not take off without spinning the tires. The rear tires were L60-15's on ten inch wheels. Just in case you may have thought it was just because it had stock tires on it.

Bill T.

okiewelder · #3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 09:23 PM

My first truck was sixy somthing with a stock 292 that I got from a neighbor because he could not get the starter to work. Anyway, it would smoke the tires.

garbz2 · #4 (**permalink**) 02-17-2008, 01:20 AM

It will joyfully spin the tires until you spin the bearings.....Or break and engine mount, u joint or a plethora of other items.....

Its a FOURTY FOUR year old engine....Give it a break....No pun intended...

Garbz

stinkfist · #5 (**permalink**) 02-17-2008, 10:14 AM

I used to do burnouts in my 64 all the time. Very torquey engines. I did tons of burn outs with the stock 3.50 gears. Then I put a locker and 3.73 gears in it. After a 4 barrell holly and reds headers with duel exhaust It would smoke the tires at will under about 15 MPH. Crappy tires help too!

Burnouts arent that hard on the engine if you are not reving it sky high. It doesn't create a lot of load just spinning the tires. Launching the truck with traction is much much harder on the drive train.

If you do a 3000 rpm burn out for a few seconds it has less load on the engine that accellerating at the same RPM. The engine does not have the resistance of pushing a 4k pound brick through the air. It's just spinning tires with no load on it. Now the tires don't like it much but its tons of fun.

That engine I used to beat on finally let go cruising down the interstate at 65 MPH because of lack of oil to the top end.

SO Burn out my friend and live life without fear. For someday you will have to rebuild your engine anyway. Then you can make it badder and do better burnouts!

MIke

matt2491 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-17-2008, 07:03 PM

The only difficult part is getting the wheels to BEGIN spinning. They keep trying to grab the road. Yeah I've already welded up a sick dual exhaust setup (super free-flowing and very LOUD), which helped the engine quite a bit. It still has the stock 2-barrel carb though. It should have enough power...? But I still haven't figured out or learned how to tune the engine yet. Right now its just in "running" condition. For example, when I let out to begin moving, the engine bogs down quite a bit before it gets going. I have to get all the timing and carb stuff and figured out properly for maximum power.