Old School 5.0 Very cool stuff from the early days of the movement
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Steve Grebeck 1992 SAAC XD-1
342 CID, 13.5:1 compression, aluminum TFS heads, Holley 4V on custom intake, with 3 Nos stages controlled by Digital FI.
Steve Grebeck... Innovator, Competitor, Sportsman, Champion, Friend & Inspiration for many! If you measure a man by his impact during his time here very few have accomplished so much and affected so many in a positive manner in such a short time. While he may not be here in the flesh it's obvious that his spirit lives on in many of you at race tracks across the country each and every weekend.
7/26/92 2nd place ‘92 5.0L World Championship (Englishtown, NJ) inaugural race "Watson Engineering INC."
9/23/92 3rd place World’s Fastest Street Car Shoot-Out (Memphis, TN) "Watson Engineering INC."
11/1/92 2nd fastest qualifier (round winner) ‘92 Mustang vs. Grand National Shootout (Las Vegas, NV) "Watson Engineering"
6/20/93 2nd fastest qualifier (round winner) ‘93 Mustang vs. Grand National Shootout (Englishtown, NJ) "Steve Grebeck Racing INC."
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A little interesting (if useless) trivia on the LX. It used a special, one-off intake designed by Steve, probably with some input from Meany. The intake was set up to accept six twin blade throttle bodies. There were block off plates used to vary the number of TB's, but with all six in place the manifold could flow a ridiculous amount of air (3500 cfm? 4500? I don't remember the exact number, but it was shocking). The heads were from Trick Flow, referred to as Pro Stock Jr.'s. They flowed around 400 cfm on the intake and 300 on the exhaust (significantly more than a Boss 429 or 427 TP). Only four or five sets of these heads were ever cast.
That set-up on a 330-inch SBF ran in the 9.20's naturally aspirated in a 3,000# Fox body, and deep in the 8's on nitrous. Makes a guy think that Ford really did have the better idea on the 302 Tunnel Port/Boss 302. (idea)
James Sisk Photography
342 CID, 13.5:1 compression, aluminum TFS heads, Holley 4V on custom intake, with 3 Nos stages controlled by Digital FI.
Steve Grebeck... Innovator, Competitor, Sportsman, Champion, Friend & Inspiration for many! If you measure a man by his impact during his time here very few have accomplished so much and affected so many in a positive manner in such a short time. While he may not be here in the flesh it's obvious that his spirit lives on in many of you at race tracks across the country each and every weekend.
7/26/92 2nd place ‘92 5.0L World Championship (Englishtown, NJ) inaugural race "Watson Engineering INC."
9/23/92 3rd place World’s Fastest Street Car Shoot-Out (Memphis, TN) "Watson Engineering INC."
11/1/92 2nd fastest qualifier (round winner) ‘92 Mustang vs. Grand National Shootout (Las Vegas, NV) "Watson Engineering"
6/20/93 2nd fastest qualifier (round winner) ‘93 Mustang vs. Grand National Shootout (Englishtown, NJ) "Steve Grebeck Racing INC."
Quote from: old5.0
A little interesting (if useless) trivia on the LX. It used a special, one-off intake designed by Steve, probably with some input from Meany. The intake was set up to accept six twin blade throttle bodies. There were block off plates used to vary the number of TB's, but with all six in place the manifold could flow a ridiculous amount of air (3500 cfm? 4500? I don't remember the exact number, but it was shocking). The heads were from Trick Flow, referred to as Pro Stock Jr.'s. They flowed around 400 cfm on the intake and 300 on the exhaust (significantly more than a Boss 429 or 427 TP). Only four or five sets of these heads were ever cast.
That set-up on a 330-inch SBF ran in the 9.20's naturally aspirated in a 3,000# Fox body, and deep in the 8's on nitrous. Makes a guy think that Ford really did have the better idea on the 302 Tunnel Port/Boss 302. (idea)
James Sisk Photography
Mark Harwell -
"Being Turbo in the "Outlaw class" before turbos were cool. The entire point of this car was to promote our products. Fuel systems, intake manifolds and a lot of turbo kits.It was later back halfed into the KFC car. Built in 94, our first win came in 96 at Stormin Norman Invitational."
"Being Turbo in the "Outlaw class" before turbos were cool. The entire point of this car was to promote our products. Fuel systems, intake manifolds and a lot of turbo kits.It was later back halfed into the KFC car. Built in 94, our first win came in 96 at Stormin Norman Invitational."
Stormin Norman Gray 1989 Ford Mustang - Hard top Version
356ci - SBF With Nitrous
David Lyall -
"This "Stormin Norman" Mustang was originally a convertible, and the first time Roush made it into a drag car, the convertible top storage restricted the rear wheel housing size. So as the Pro 5.0 class got more and more serious, I took the car to Tom Smith's Wolverine Chassis for a rebuild into a 4-link and a back-half, and a full roll cage with the funny car cage. To get the big 14" slicks under the car, It was clear then the convertible had to go, so I got a Mustang coupe donner car from the Mustang program, and sawed the roof off, just as I had done years before to repair my rolled over mustangs. We grafted the coupe roof on, (made easy because convertible Mustangs were body bucked as coupes, and they saw the rook off) so we just reversed the process, and the rest is history. This movie is the car back at Roush, after we won "The war to settle the score" at Englishtown, between the Pro-5.0 Mustang crowd and the Buick Grand National crowd, to repaint the car, raced at E-Town in Primer and the Purple roof of the donner car".
356ci - SBF With Nitrous
David Lyall -
"This "Stormin Norman" Mustang was originally a convertible, and the first time Roush made it into a drag car, the convertible top storage restricted the rear wheel housing size. So as the Pro 5.0 class got more and more serious, I took the car to Tom Smith's Wolverine Chassis for a rebuild into a 4-link and a back-half, and a full roll cage with the funny car cage. To get the big 14" slicks under the car, It was clear then the convertible had to go, so I got a Mustang coupe donner car from the Mustang program, and sawed the roof off, just as I had done years before to repair my rolled over mustangs. We grafted the coupe roof on, (made easy because convertible Mustangs were body bucked as coupes, and they saw the rook off) so we just reversed the process, and the rest is history. This movie is the car back at Roush, after we won "The war to settle the score" at Englishtown, between the Pro-5.0 Mustang crowd and the Buick Grand National crowd, to repaint the car, raced at E-Town in Primer and the Purple roof of the donner car".
The car that the "Skinny Kid" says helped put him on the map Don Walsh Jr's D&D Performance 1993 Ford Mustang
• 2006 NMRA Pro 5.0 Overall Points Runner-Up
• 2003, 2004, 2005 NMRA Pro 5.0 Overall Points Championship Winner
• 2004 NMRA Pro 5.0 3x Event Winner, 2x Runner-Up
• 2003 Prestigious World Ford Challenge Winner
• 2003 NMRA Pro 5.0 5x Event Winner
• 2003-2005 Continually held and reset both the ET & MPH records, resetting each several times
• 2002 NMRA Pro 5.0 3rd Place Overall Points Finisher
• 2001 NMRA Pro 5.0 Overall Points Runner-Up
• 2001 NMRA Sportsman of the Year
• 2006 NMRA Pro 5.0 Overall Points Runner-Up
• 2003, 2004, 2005 NMRA Pro 5.0 Overall Points Championship Winner
• 2004 NMRA Pro 5.0 3x Event Winner, 2x Runner-Up
• 2003 Prestigious World Ford Challenge Winner
• 2003 NMRA Pro 5.0 5x Event Winner
• 2003-2005 Continually held and reset both the ET & MPH records, resetting each several times
• 2002 NMRA Pro 5.0 3rd Place Overall Points Finisher
• 2001 NMRA Pro 5.0 Overall Points Runner-Up
• 2001 NMRA Sportsman of the Year
