Just for fun little guy FED combos

[PSweeney]

if you want low buck fun, put a stick shift in a digger.  Wheels up every time, lots to do from the seat clutching and banging gears on the shift light.

[voxnut]

Voxnut your car is a Beauty!! Is that a King Chassis?

Thanks! Yes, it's a King Chassis that I asked Brian to tweak some specs for me on. Looking forward to finishing it sooner than later. Your car looks like a ton of fun!

Dean

[dusterdave173]

Your car has " The Look"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love it!!!
These things are the most fun you can have !!! No matter the speed they are Tons of Fun to drive!
The big thing that I found out is that you must have some crew every time you go to the track--I just never thought about that as I drove a door car for years--It is sort of a PIA--Folks all say they will go and WANT to go but when it comes down to loading up and taking off the numbers dwindle down and you are often left begging for help--Cultivate your help while you build the car! Buy a Big cooler for your rig.
The day you make that first pass is going to be one of the best days you will ever have--Keep working!

[retroboy]

Howdy
I'm putting a just for fun combo together to go racing on a couple of 1/8 mile tracks. I see guys here talking about 10,000 RPM small blocks using 7,000 RPM converters. Now that's way out of reach for a lot of us so lets talk about our home built low buck just for fun combo's.
I have a 150" chassis, 31x12 MT tyres, 4.3 gears, 904 TF trans with an 8" converter - no trans brake so about 3000 is about where I can hold it with my hand brake. Engine wise a 360 Chrysler with an old Racer Brown ST 21 cam, mechanical injection and a Vertex wil be getting the show on the road.  That's it no electronic driver stuff, no data loggers, no radiator, 4 feet of wire and nothing much else. I haven't run this down a track yet - waiting on some body work. I'm hoping for high 5's on the eighth. What are you little guys building and  racing?
Cheers
Tony

Now I've worked out how to post pic's - here's mine.

[retroboy]

This is a Mates car here in South Australia. It can trace it's heritage back to the mid 1960's. At different times it ran with a flathead V8,a six cylinder Jaguar and a 332 FE Ford big block. It had a new chassis through it some time in the 1970's using plans copied from a magazine and ran with a 289 and clutch-flight.  Now days it has a basically standard 302W with a solid camshaft and fuel injection. It has a C4 trans and a 1955 Ford Customline diff with 3.7 gears. Best to date leaving from idle is 6.1 one the eighth only using 1st and 2nd gears. It's been off the track for a little while but now that other distractions are out of the way (restoration of a Y block powered 1960's Fiat altered) it will be back freshened up and ready to rock and roll in the new year looking for a 5 second pass

[Supercat]

If by little guy you mean on a tight budget..................
Our combo is
2007 Fastech 200" full body
Started with the injected 65 401 Buick Nailhead.
Current engine is a 462" Buick iron block.
4 Port Hilborn Alky injected.
Super-mag 4.
Hosier 33x12x15
3.89 Ford 9"
P/G with brake 4400 rpm stall leave at 4000


Best run was a 1.10 60'  , 4.95 @ 144 1/8th , 7.82 @176.9  (trans eating itself up on the pass)
The day we ran the pass was a balmy 49-53 degrees. We had a difficult time trying to get the engine temp up above 160.
Trans is repaired and the converter damage is yet to be determined. Hope to know soon, though....

Good thread look forward to seeing more builds.

[wideopen231]

What it this budget thing you speak of. Is that where you have acertain amount of money and not just hope for cpl bucks on side so you can buy a new part? If so I got to get me one of those. Right now I got to get me torque converter , driveshaft, Heads finished and a starter mounted. Getting closer anyway.

[retroboy]

Great to see some different combo's - SBC seems to dominate as the power plant of choice but that comes as no surprise. Interesting to see the Cadillac and the Buick powered cars. Speaking of the Buick - Supercat with the 3.89 gears and tall tyres what sort of finish line RPM does the car see on the 1/8th and on a full track.

[dusterdave173]

I Love Retroboys Mopar! I drag raced Mopars for over 25 years--LOVE them but..when I got my FED chassis it was set up for the SBC so I did not fight it--I gave in--Have to say the "Mopar Tax" I had been paying all those years adds up--It has been such a JOY to buy quality SBC parts for a Fraction of what same Mopar part would be--I Love my Chevy but will have a Hemi in a FED before I quit ---NO doubt!

[Pipe Dreams]

Mopar Tax...... tell me about it. Man, if i could only get a tax break and be able to fit a big block mopar in the frame. You chevy guy's have it made. I do get a certain satisfaction from putting a big block chevy RED on the trailer with my small block mopar though.
Got the motor out right now to freshen for next yr. Changing cams and getting the heads cnc ported. Looking to see if we can step-up and run with Glenn in the 8.0 class next yr.
Here' what she is right now.
She's  a 1970 170" Woody
415 SBM 12.8/1cr with Indy 360-1 heads
Enderle two holer injected on alky
Glide w/ 8 3/4   4.30 gears
Had been running 33x12 M&H now on 31x10.5 Hoosiers.
Best so far 8.41@159
5.30 @129   1/8
1.15 sixty foot leaving at 2,200

[ricardo1967]

Nice car Pipe!

[Pipe Dreams]

Thank You, Sir. Watched the vid. Of you  On youtube and can only think of 2 words. HOLY CRAP!!!

[retroboy]

The Mopar tax - try living half way around the world, being outnumbered about 500 to 1, where you ring up about parts and the guy just isn't intetested when you say Chrysler. Thank goodness for the Internet and guys like Dave Hughes

[dusterdave173]

Try Mopartsconnection.com   Marsh Performance my best pal Todd Marsh  we are master WD for everything Mopar and less $$ than others  Indy dealers etc anything you need!!! Tell Todd I sent ya!

[JrFuel Hayden]

Pipe Dreams, how much did your performance improve when you went from 33x12 MH to 31x10.5 Hoosier ? And what width rims are you using ? And Oh Ya what tire pressure is working best for you ?

Jon