Thanks for all the positive feed back it has been difficult to realize something you have been working on for five years is no longer drivable. But my engine is OK and will be scooting another Ford down the road soon. I will post a pic of my spark monday. If I remember I am running around 6 degrees at 24 psi. We are at 19 degrees @ 0 vacuum or 90 kpa. I will have to hook my battery back up and take a pic of my map.

Maybe one of those tiny Ford Rangers would be a spot for the engine. There seem to be a lot of them on the dragstrip now. That would really be scary! Chuck

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Manchester, New Hampshire

Well this 99 F150 2wd is a light truck and will handle my dyno trailer as well. Plus we can buy any performance suspension upgrades we want.

Did you ever see the 56 Ford nose kit that was around for the newer F150's? I saw one at Carlisle one year and it was great. They made a complete nose out of fiberglass that was massaged to fit in place of the original front end. The truck was a stepside and had the supercharged motor in it. Package was about $50,000! I'm sure they didn't sell many at that price. Even counting the new truck and trir ck motor I figure about $15,000 overpriced. Looked good though. That said I have no idea how much work would be required to modify a fiberglass 56 nose to fit your F150. Would be cool though. Chuck



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Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

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Manchester, New Hampshire

Hutz, when I first got your message, I thought it would be even worse. That ain't bad at all. Just get a new cabin for your truck, but please don't do anything as stupid as above That red one is ugly as hel...

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Don't worry we won't go that crazy. The 99 F150 is a great looking truck . Me and my dad decided we will continue my build with his old 65 F100 2 wheel drive out at the farm. He slid down a hill hunting about twenty years ago and it's been sitting ever since. Nice part is all my stuff from this truck will transfer right over. My engine and transw will stay in the 99 and I will build a new y-block for the 65. I have been looking for an excuse to build another y-block. There are three up the street in a guys grage so I should be able to get ahold of one. We were thinking of using a nice noisy kenne bell on that one. We weill just mount it remotely on the side. That will be this fall.

One of the great benefits of farm life there always seems to be a few spare vehicles scattered around. Especially it you are looking for pickups. We got an old chevy sedan running when I was barley a teen. Used it for a "gully racer". basicaly that meant go as fast as the crapped out old 6 cylinder would allow and up a bank to see who could go highest on roll over the neatest. Glad my parents and other relatives never caught on. We thought we were good enough to be "hell drivers". Sure, fat chance! Chuck

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Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Hey everyone we are making some progress on the new build. I will have more pics tomorrow. The biggest question has been the differential, we would like to use the original diff in the 99 F150 which is an 8.8in rear diff. I was on the phone for hour today talking to people about if it would handle the power. The consensus came to that they can handle a lot of power but would be borderline for the power we are running. We thought we would just swap the diff from my 62 to that on since it has a locker and Moser 31 spline axles, but would require some modifying and the diff is about 5 inches narrower than the F150. I noticed that one of my axle seals was leaking so I removed the axle to find that those badass Moser 31 spline axles were twisted so I called Moser and they said yeah those probable aren't going to handle 1000 horsepower. So in any situation I would either need to completely rebuild my current 9in or build that 8.8in that might handle the power. So I talked to Strange Engineering and I am ordering a prebuilt custom 9in rear diff that will bolt into the 99 F150 with custom 12in rear disc brakes. It ended up being about $400 dollars more to just order a prebult brand new rear diff than modifying mine. Plus it will have the bigger late Ford rear axle bearing, Detroit locker, 35 spline axles, rear disc brakes and 3 1/2 tubes and a 10yr warranty on everything on the axle. The 35 spline axle should hold up! I will take pics of the axles tomorrow. I do have a pic of the current 9in diff housing though, it is hard to see in the pic but the leaf spring plates are actually tearing away from the axle and on the front side it is crushing the axle tube from all the hp and torque. It is awesome looking at those damaged parts that are damaged, not from abuse, but from simply too much POWER! I cannot wait for this Y to crank that F150 down the road. I will take some pics of the p/s pump bracket that Chris built and the badass turbo oil feed manifold/fuel pump cover that Chris also built.



It's hard to see but that axle is crushing in where the leaf spring pads are.

You are crossing over into gasser or altered country with that engine. Did the axles twist on that first banzai run or previously? What are you running for transmission? You are going to need a really stout driveline to handle this beast. Ok, give up, put in a straight axle front end with a nose up attitude, use the extra 5" to put in tubs and BIG slicks and go crazy! Chucik

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Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

On my 57 I had to re-enforce the original spring pads as well. I wound up plating them with 3/16 steel and extending the rear portion back a couple inches over the spring to prevent the housing from rotating. I'd consider a 3 or 4 link or ladder bars in your case. The torque numbers are way more than leaf springs are going to be able to handle.

Frank/Rebop

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