You a writer? I find this posts entraining and a joy to read
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Oddly enough, yeah, I am . . . sort of. I used to write a lot back in my 20's. Had some stuff published, but nothing major or worth talking about.
I'm a perfect storm. I talk a mile a minute, plus my mother taught me how to type when I was 7. She's fast . . . SCARY fast i.e. she could over load an old 8086's keyboard buffer. It was funny. I type 110-120 words a minute, so a five minute post on SN turns into "War and Peace: The Extended Edition".
Glad you enjoy it, though.
You'll get over it.
I have a Mark fan with a Fluiddyne rad for my junk, seems to work well.
Yeah, I should probably do something like that, but I'm the world's worst junkyard diver. I'm an equally poor mechanic, too . . . which is why I became an engineer.
My wife, on the other hand, is a great mechanic. She had to be. Her first car was a Camaro. Me, not so much. I DROVE a Mustang. Actually, still driving the same one.
Have you looked at a different water pump high flow or tried to speed up or slow down the water pump
? Aluminum water pump
?
I get that a lot, but the problem is heat transfer i.e. I can't cool the water. If I sped up my water flow, all I'd be doing is pumping hot water faster.
For the '65 family, the place to put a radiator is pretty substantial but the air hole is REALLY SMALL. Most people crack up when they look inside my engine bay and look at the radiator. What STINKS is that 80% of the time it's JUST FINE. I just can't sit anywhere out in the heat.
What heads are you running? Just thinking out loud maybe early aftermarket heads did not have good cooling passages?
Some 15 year old Dart II heads that have had extensive work done to them. I think the passages are fine, but I have no proof of that. Like I said, I think it's just a heat transfer issue, BUT GOOD THOUGHT . . . never really considered it myself. Hmmmm . . .
500hp in 1995 was pretty impressive
. That may be the equivalent of having 1000hp turbo car today
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Yeah, sadly, that was a pretty horkin' good rod for a daily driver "way back when". It was especially good because I could drive her a few hundred miles with no issues, play on a road course, and then drive her home. Most of the hotter cars "back then" were a pain to deal with or were really overweight (I was about 2,800 pounds).
Now though, feh, 500 at the crank is closer to 400 at the rear wheels, and crap, everybody has that. Only they get 24mpg, require no work, run at 170 degrees through hades, and have a torque curve flatter than Kansas. *sigh*
It kills me. I'll be driving my Charger and some old codger will say "they don't make them like they used to" and shake his head. I usually yell out "no kidding because this son of a biscuit eater is FAST . . . I'd probably kick the crap out of those big block turkeys you had back then . . . unless you modified them . . . then I'd have to get an SRT-8 to do it . . . but we'd kick your butts getting 24 mpg with the A/C on high listening to XM radio with kids and groceries in the back . . . nope, they don't make them like they used to . . . THANK GAWD!"
LOL!
What the "kids" today don't seem to grasp is that, way back when, 14 seconds was a good quarter mile time. Two hundred horses was a "high output V8". I lived in a day when the fastest 1/4 mile time was held by a . . . Buick . . . and a V-6 to boot!
LOL! Thanks Scott. I'm hoping this works. I've come to a whole new horizon for my old Mustang, and it's not what I ever imagined. I grew up with the car and dreams of making the ultimate street car out of her. In the early 90's, I was CLOSE . . . sort of. Since then, though, feh, those dreams have kind of died out. No, they've been killed, actually. My '06 Charger crashed lots of them (in a good way). I mean, I'm an old married guy with kids and grandkids, so I got this 4 door that was "kinda' like a muscle car". Cripes, it's a beast . . . a big, comfy, efficient, easy, nimble, nice looking beast.
Now my desire is to make my car into a relatively comfortable, reliable "family hot rod" i.e. a car that I can take to work, go get some groceries, and still be a hot rod. I don't care anything about street racing. I'm old enough now to see how stupid it REALLY is plus, heck, cars now are so fast they really don't belong on the street at speed.
I'm fighting technology and money now. Gone are the days of "tweaking" a 60's era hot rod to keep up with the Jones's. You need to really step up now just to keep up with production vehicles. Fortunately, there are a lot of high tech mods available to us "old guys" now, but good grief they're pricey. I mean, we're getting to the time where engine mod budgets are starting to fall behind
suspension mod budgets. Oh yeah, you can get 600-700 hp easy, and it's clean and reliable, but the new guy can do that with 1.01 on the skid pad and brakes that make the Italians drool. And you can get one that does 450 hp and .99 used for pennies on the dollar.
Alas, the struggle never ends. The BEST THING about having a '65, though, is that no matter how fast everyone else is, you're still the first one . . . the best one.
). Right now, though, while the engine purrs like a kitten and the running gear is precious (modified big block toploader and a versey 9"), the support equipment is sadly lacking.
