Hi, my name is Dan, I live in a backwoods little town named Cadet that's in Eastern to South-Eastern Missouri. I have always been a Ford fan, especially of the 67-70 and 87-93 Mustangs, and 70's to 97 heavy duty 4x4 trucks. I have had several Mustangs over the years, I've just had a bad habit of putting more motor in them than they can stay on the road with, especially my last one that had a naturally aspirated 302/347 stroker that run on nothing less than 103 octane racing fuel and would bury the Ford Motorsport speedometer that registered 165, so I was never sure how fast that it actually went. I do know that it would try to pull the front tires high enough at 140 at 4000 rpm's in 4th gear that you could barely steer it and that it would rev 6,500 rpm's safely before shift out into 5th and by 3,500 in 5th it would bury the speedometer out, so it's safe to say that it was fast. Lol, anyway, I've spent the last 3 years building on my everyday driver 92 F-250 4x4 here and there as money permits. So far I've put a whole new brake system on it (rotors, wheel cylinders, calipers, and so on), new wheel bearings, new front axle u-joints, new ball joints (uppers and lowers), new tie rods and ends, a front leaf leveling kit (I plan on eventually putting a 4" set of lift springs on it with a 1 ton overload set for the back since I dismantled a 1 ton dually a while back and kept it's dually rear axle because it's 4" wider than the single wheel rear and the brake drums are 1/2" wider so I can have the front and rear tires about equally spaced without using spacers, have heavier duty brakes, and less chance of a fish tail while pulling heavy trailers, plus I cut the overload brackets from the dually's rear frame to put on my frame to catch the overload spring), all new u-joints for the front and rear drive shafts, new 16x10 aluminum American Racing Outlaw 2 wheels with 285/75x16 A/T tires that are decently lugged for off-road/snow, and that's just the regular maintenance stuff. Then I got into the rebuilding. I found alot better looking body so I stripped it down to the frame and put the better body down on it with polyeurethane body mounts. Then I installed a new aluminum heavy cooling radiator, new heater core, a high volume water pump, and for now a heavy duty cooling fan clutch. And last but definately not least, it needed a rebuild on the 351W engine, and even though I wanted to go all out, I was strapped for cash after all the other stuff I had done to it, so I just went for a temporary fix and had the block bored .030 over, had the stock heads shaved .010, put a Comp Cam 35-255-5 in it which is a towing cam that has a .478 int/.485 exh lift with a duration of 210 int/214 exh @ .050. I topped this off with a set of Flowtech (Holley) long tube headers, 3" dual pipes, a set of large high flow cats, and a set of super 44 Flowmaster mufflers. Pretty much the only things that I haven't rebuilt or replaced on it is the clutch, flywheel, transmission (a ZF 4-speed w/overdrive, the same as a 1 ton has), and the transfer case. Lol, there's nothing really special about me, I'm just your typical motorhead from the Mid-West, that's why I introduced my truck, 'Ol Blue is her name, instead. I am looking for someone on here that is good with figuring compression ratios to head compression chamber volume to help me make some part decisions for my future engine plans (either a 418 or 427 stroker). I'm trying to figure out what heads (compression chamber volume and valve sizes) that I need to get and what pistons I would need (flats or most likely dishs and if dishs what cc addition to the compression chamber volume of the head) so that I can get as close to 11:1 compression as I can without detonation on pump gas for both stroker possibilities. I'm wanting a seriously long stroked, low revving torquer out of my beast, so if anyone that has the knowledge is willing to do a little math for me and send me a message to let me know I'd highly appreciate it. Thanks in advance for any responses. I'm happy to be a part of the FTE community. Later fellow Ford fans.

 

Hi and welcome Dan, always great to meet another Ford fan! I`m into Mustangs and Ford trucks.
Be sure to post an intro in your local FTE chapter too:
Missouri Chapter - Ford Truck Enthusiasts Forums

 

Welcome to the site, it's great to have you here.

Tony

 

Nice to meet you. Welcome!