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I've heard that there still is the start and finish lines there, but I've never actually gone down there and checked it out. I may have to. I'm not living on campus anymore so it'll be a "special trip".....
-Jake
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Yea.....I doubt it will happen this weekend. If I do go home (that's where ol blue is resting) there's work to do on the farm....which isn't all bad. I've had this deal for about a year where the amount of money spent generally exceeds the amount coming in.....so I'm all about working and making a buck or five!!! Sometime though, I WILL get down there.....I'll let you and George know.....maybe we could meet up?
-Jake
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Don't want to run your Big Six's? There's a guy here at college....and actually on FTE (goes by the name of The_SnoMan710) that loves the heck outta them things.....swears he's gonna build one to 400 ft-lbs and walk all over things....I tell him to bring the chain.....I figure blue should be pumpin' around 450 ft lbs....
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engine is stock (nutless), rearend gears are from 1958 and would prob. explode, and i have a small leak in my radiator which would prob. cause one BIG problem! I'll take it on the track SOMEDAY but not anytime soon
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Haha....yea I hear you there.
Anyway...just for "grins and giggles" I found the thread containing my build specs. Post #13 has the Desktop Dyno simulation numbers.....I think it MAY be a bit optimistic. None the less:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/5...390-build.html
Any guess what I'd run with that in a 4800 lb pickup.....traction isn't much of a problem. If I don't do a burnout first I get just a second of rubber off the line.....
-Jake
Anyway...just for "grins and giggles" I found the thread containing my build specs. Post #13 has the Desktop Dyno simulation numbers.....I think it MAY be a bit optimistic. None the less:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/5...390-build.html
Any guess what I'd run with that in a 4800 lb pickup.....traction isn't much of a problem. If I don't do a burnout first I get just a second of rubber off the line.....
-Jake
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im not very smart when it comes to ford power but if your only gonna be running around 9-1 compression I bet that you run a 16 quarter in a pickup with a nice motor with stock gears
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I'm running like....9.75:1. I gotta be kinda careful with the timing on 89. Right now I'm running a 3.54 rear end ratio.....I'm thinking that will get changed to a 4.10 as I currenty sit after my best guess of 1/4 mile I'm only at about 4000 rpm.....My motor isn't that wild, but yet it's pretty far from stock.....
-Jake
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