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



Y's guys rule!
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

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.

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

Y's guys rule!
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

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.

Very sorry to hear about the damage but the "ride" is one you will never forget. After this quarter mile blasts will seem tame I'm sure. At least all the important things survived, the engine and oh yeah you too! Trucks are easier to replace/fix than people. Chuck

Y's guys rule!
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

Sorry to hear you.

Btw. also sorry to bother you in moment of sadness, but can you post your advance map?
We are getting rid of mechanical advance control (atlast) with dragster and it might be easier to go on dyno with proven map.
Im out of knowledge with timing over 100 kpa Y-Blocks and many other are also in this world.


Hyvinkää, FI

It was at full power for about thirty seconds so I think it can handle drag runs and other races.

Glad everyone's OK.
Apparently the engine can stand the WOT for awhile then huh?

       A  L  A  N   F  R  A  K  E  S   ~  Tulsa, OK    

Ya we are ok and in the end it is just metal that can be reshaped and fixed!

That sucks. But everyone is ok and the damage doesn't look bad.

You can tell everyone that the '99 is an early experimental ecoboost.


Lawrenceville, GA