Thats insane, those fire chickens are pretty fast too!

 

Well lets see, the set-up is pretty good considering that the truck weighs 4200lbs! If we changed anything on the engine, we wish we put in a larger cam, and sent the rotating assembly away to get balanced. We still talk about a larger cam swap, maybe this year if it works out. The 429 heads and flat top pistons give around that 11:1 compression, so it needs premium gas to run. Maybe should of went with a 10cc dish piston to tame that down a bit, but works well with large cams. That would be personal preference. If we didn't build on a budget, would of went with a stroker kit to push the 540 cubes, and went with aluminum heads. We built this engine ourselves, with Acklands doing the block work, and E&G Auto doing the head work for us. We assembled the engine at home, and blueprinted it during assembly. The maching including gaskets, pistons, bearings, etc. was around $900. The head work was about $900 also. Extras like the roller rockers, cam, pushrods, lifters, springs, guide plates, intake, headers, carb, ignition system and Ford Motorsports valve covers for room for the roller rockers added up to around $1600 give or take a few hundred. The transmission was actually very cheap to rebuild. The shop we took it to is Dean & Daughters in Estevan, and Dean loves building up transmissions. He put a performance overhaul kit with heavier clutches and bands, installed the shift kit and programed it for our specific application and it only cost us $500 if you can believe that! The tourque convertor we ordered ourselves and was around $350. We also installed an extra cooler and temp gauge just for good measure. Truck shifts so hard it will squeek the tires between shifts now! This truck had a 351M before, so all we did was get the towers and mounts for the engine from a wrecker for $75 and they just bolted in. It had an automatic in the truck before,so we took the one from behind the 429 for rebuilding, and it dropped in no problem. I would recomend a big block, like our signature says, there's no substitute for cubic inch!

 

Thanks for the reply, good to get ideas on the 460 and to see that it can make that kind of power. At higher speeds aerodynamics are not on your side with the truck so there must be alot of horse power in your engine.

 

That is awesome 77, sure would be nice to see a few pictures of it

 

My name is Adam.Grant is my middle name i use it for all my computer needs.Jax.Fl.if its not on there.appreciate ya!

 

Nice to meet ya grant, I hope to hear more from you, and about your projects and whatnot

 

Thanks for dropping in, nice lift on your toy.

 

Yeppers grant, that 2003 looks awesome lifted up like that!

 

Thanks I was starved for attention I thought nobody liked my little F150.By the way nice to meet you Preppypyro and thanks again.Appreciate ya!

 

No prob man, nice to meet you too

 

That's the next thing on the list is to start on my gallery, then I can post pictures of not only the 77, but the other trucks lingering around too! I do have pictures, just not digital, have the camera, just need to use it.

 

Thats awesome, I should get into taking more pictures too.

 

I guess the parents called me Ryan. One day after a little happy sauce and a little resulting ditch drive into snow it was a old nickname. I never thought I would use this sight as much, I would have put some thought in to my name.

 

My wife calls me D... D.... Da.... Dav.... Dave. ( She studders when I tell her how much I spend on my truck)

 

Lol thats funny dave