1320stang
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ET Performance does some good stuff. I plan on getting my race heads done there. If your wanted heads done a little cheaper, both Scott Vincent and Les Schmader do excellent work. I plan on sending a set of C8AE-H heads to Les for a budget nitrous 390 I'm going to build for a '67-'68 coupe.
I didn't even bring up the Blue Thunder High Riser FE heads, especially in race form. They're purported to flow close to 400 out of the box, but you have to use T&D stuff on them or machine the pads down for more conventional stuff.
DK, who did your cage? Looks like it fits pretty tight, which is how I like them. Are you going to put some bars thru the firewall out to tie into the shock towers then down to the front frame rails? If you do, it looks like you can bring them thru outside of the engine compartment past the shock towers before you roll them back in. The problem spot would be the factory battery tray. You could get a drivers side panel and cut it out and weld it in there backwards to sort of look factory. Don't forget to run a tranny cross member, I'm not sure it's a problem on BBF's but there was a N02 '69 Camaro that showed up to my local track freshly built. 3rd pass he hit the button off the line, it pulled the front tires about 4' in the air and made a right turn from teh left lane. I thought he was going to hit the tree. He had steered the wheel all the way left, came down, got back into it, hit the left wall. They had no crossmember for the Powerglide and no bracing to keep the motor plates from moving back and forth. The motor plates bent forward and it sat at about half throttle as it smacked the other wall and started to slide down the wall until he finally got his wits about him and hit the shutoff stich and shut down at about the 1/8 mile. Hit hard enough to flatten both side of the camaro and bow out the centers of all 4 draglights.
Another time I saw a car in the pits sat up the same way, said he had a problem with the engine surging as he went down the track after pulling the front wheels. He didn't have a tranny crossmember either. With the engine idling in the pits, my buddy goes up and grabs the waterneck and gives the engine a shove. It starts rocking back and forth and the engine is surging. The guy ended up taking some tubing and put longer bolts in the lower corners of his tranny and running them over to the top of the frame. I think he later broke and ear off both the tranny and the block.
I guess that's your battery box on the lower left side? My chassis guy told me the way to mount the batteries is for the long way to run across the car, rather than front to back. This is for conventional batteries, he says if you mount it the other way the plates rock back and forth and will end up killing a cell or at the least, shortening battery life. This is where he suggested is the best place to mount the battery, this is in my buddy Kevin's '68 coupe.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/39716392/39718489CsLHtJ
I didn't even bring up the Blue Thunder High Riser FE heads, especially in race form. They're purported to flow close to 400 out of the box, but you have to use T&D stuff on them or machine the pads down for more conventional stuff.
DK, who did your cage? Looks like it fits pretty tight, which is how I like them. Are you going to put some bars thru the firewall out to tie into the shock towers then down to the front frame rails? If you do, it looks like you can bring them thru outside of the engine compartment past the shock towers before you roll them back in. The problem spot would be the factory battery tray. You could get a drivers side panel and cut it out and weld it in there backwards to sort of look factory. Don't forget to run a tranny cross member, I'm not sure it's a problem on BBF's but there was a N02 '69 Camaro that showed up to my local track freshly built. 3rd pass he hit the button off the line, it pulled the front tires about 4' in the air and made a right turn from teh left lane. I thought he was going to hit the tree. He had steered the wheel all the way left, came down, got back into it, hit the left wall. They had no crossmember for the Powerglide and no bracing to keep the motor plates from moving back and forth. The motor plates bent forward and it sat at about half throttle as it smacked the other wall and started to slide down the wall until he finally got his wits about him and hit the shutoff stich and shut down at about the 1/8 mile. Hit hard enough to flatten both side of the camaro and bow out the centers of all 4 draglights.
Another time I saw a car in the pits sat up the same way, said he had a problem with the engine surging as he went down the track after pulling the front wheels. He didn't have a tranny crossmember either. With the engine idling in the pits, my buddy goes up and grabs the waterneck and gives the engine a shove. It starts rocking back and forth and the engine is surging. The guy ended up taking some tubing and put longer bolts in the lower corners of his tranny and running them over to the top of the frame. I think he later broke and ear off both the tranny and the block.
I guess that's your battery box on the lower left side? My chassis guy told me the way to mount the batteries is for the long way to run across the car, rather than front to back. This is for conventional batteries, he says if you mount it the other way the plates rock back and forth and will end up killing a cell or at the least, shortening battery life. This is where he suggested is the best place to mount the battery, this is in my buddy Kevin's '68 coupe.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/39716392/39718489CsLHtJ
.. I have a set of iron CJ heads off of a 71 spoiler collecting dust in the garage. Scott Johnston at 
