Morning Jared! You dad called the other day, but I was out working........I really wanted to go see you guys tonight, but have to much work to get away......Damn it...... Have fun, say hi to your dad, AND POST VIDEO WHEN YOU GET BACK!!!

 

Sorry Don, no video this time but we have a few pictures.

Things were a little bit different this year there was 8 or 9 other racers. They split it into 3 races, each race you participated in, you got $100 with no grand prize. First race was a regular 10 lap "light" bump to pass with no trailers, second was a "light" figure 8 bump to pass, and the main was a all out last man with something hanging on their hitch.

I only was able to race in the first two, due to the fact that I blew the steering box apart when i was spun out during the second race.

Bump-2-Pass - Center Stage Photograpy

Bump-2-Pass - Center Stage Photograpy

Bump-2-Pass - Center Stage Photograpy

Bump-2-Pass - Center Stage Photograpy


We had such a great time at these races that i am building another one.
81 F-250 2wd. Paid $100 and its getting a heart transplant.



New heart, a built 351W

 

Well is about that time again, so i figured i would give an update. Things went really good last year and we had a lot of fun. I started tinkering with the existing motor(351m) in the pickup. I was told that it blew up. I found a broken distributor wire, so i threw a carb on it and it fired right up even on 5 year old gas. I did some more digging and found out it had about 10k on a rebuild which they put 400 pistons and crank and a .030 overbore and has oil pressure of 50psi hot. I decided against the motor swap after running this motor, the Windsor has a lot more potential and is a lot easier to build but I wanted a challenge. After lots and lots of research i started my cheap 400 build.
I ran last years race with a completely stock motor and this thing really surprised me how well it ran stock. I ran a 20 seconds flat lap time on hermiston's 3/8 oval!
We Had C-10 sitting around with no motor so my brother put that Windsor in it and made his own.
Here they are all together.


Well i guess we will get to the good part. Videos!

 

I guess now is a good time to show my cheap 400 build.

I started off doing research and found that it was a D7TE-A2B block With reinforced Main Webs and D5AE-A2A 2V heads with 74.5cc open chambers so im not starting off to bad. It has 400 crank and 71' flat top pistons so the CR is in the 9/1 area instead of 8/1. I figured i would start with the problems that made these motors a so-called boat anchor. I found a set of used 351c headers that i got for free. They needed a few little modifications but nothing bad. next thing to address was the factory 4 deg. retarded cam. Most people that put cams in 351/400 usually go with 250-260 duration cam because after all these are pickup motors, but i knew the i was going to be revving this a little higher then the average Joe, so i went with Comp cams 268H and matching valve springs and timing gear. The Intake is going to be a Holley Street Dominator that is a open plenum intake that was discontinued topped with a Holley 4160. For the ignition system i bought a MSD cdi box with matching coil and wires because i wanted a rev limiter and wanted to get rid of the old chopped up harness.
So far i have gotten everything in except the intake and man! it isn't a boat anchor anymore. I smashed the throttle and left 2 rubber streaks all the way through our seventy foot shop. The thing that i like most is that i have a total of $933.56 invested into this whole thing and that's everything down to spark plugs. Well that's about it for now I will try to get a schedule posted for this year in case anybody wants to watch or participate.

 

Good job Jared! Post up the race dates, and Harley and I will try and make it!