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Just for fun little guy FED combos

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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:

--- Quote from: dusterdave173 on November 23, 2014, 09:33:49 AM ---Voxnut your car is a Beauty!! Is that a King Chassis?

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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:

--- Quote from: retroboy on November 21, 2014, 10:24:17 PM ---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

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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

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