N8TE
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Must be an above ground pump? How do you prevent freezing, or does it all drain?
We have been considering options for my Cabin in the Catskills, which is off the grid (2 mi up the mountain on a 4WD road).
Went to a party yesterday at one of my wife's cousin's houses on Long Island. I'm sure a lot of you will recognize the Holly Grail of Ford Engines. I believe this one was owned my MT himself!
Don't have a clue as to the HP with velocity stacks and injectors, but I do know the single 4 bbl version was 616 HP!
Does it still have the MT aluminum rods in it?The only two motors most of the top builders of that era would build for a rail or funny car were the Chrysler Hemi or the Ford SOHC.
FYI, Mickey Thomson was the first to brake the 200 MPH barrier with a Funny Car, and he had one of them 427 SOHC motors in it.
Does it still have the MT aluminum rods in it?
Was it converted to a gear drive from the timing chain?
I'm just guessing, but if that was a engine from M/T it would be running a lot of his parts in it not factory parts.I don't know what rods are in it, but I'm sure all of the SOHC motors had very heavy duty stuff.
Some of his 302s are converted to gear drive, but I don't think you could do that to an Overhead Cam motor, but I could be wrong! Don't all overhead cam motors have big long timing chains???
Ford also developed a dual overhead cam 427, but NASCAR banned it after it's first race, so Ford discontinued it. Technology before it's time!
Hey, my current Mustang Motor (started life as a 2006 4.6 liter) has cross bolted mains, which were first developed for the 406/427 Ford motors.
Getting rid of the sticks so that I can have some fun with the larger diameter beech logs.
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Some entertainment in form of selected background music helps a lot.
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What is the consensus on Ash as firewood?
Mixed opinions in my area, mostly negative.
I got a reduced price for accepting some 6 ash logs in my firewood load, it will get burned mixed with beech and oak.
In my area Ash is mostly unwanted, as such the forestry usually has trouble getting rid of it.Wilhelm's post prompted me to share this :
The Firewood Poem
Beechwood fires are bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year,
Chestnut's only good they say,
If for logs 'tis laid away.
Make a fire of Elder tree,
Death within your house will be;
But ash new or ash old,
Is fit for a queen with crown of gold
Birch and fir logs burn too fast
Blaze up bright and do not last,
it is by the Irish said
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread.
Elm wood burns like churchyard mould,
E'en the very flames are cold
But ash green or ash brown
Is fit for a queen with golden crown
Poplar gives a bitter smoke,
Fills your eyes and makes you choke,
Apple wood will scent your room
Pear wood smells like flowers in bloom
Oaken logs, if dry and old
keep away the winter's cold
But ash wet or ash dry
a king shall warm his slippers by.
Ash generally sells for a premium in Ireland (North and South).
If I remember right M/T made under 20 sets of the Hemi Pontiac heads. You need to remember that at that time he was running Pontiac and Buick in all of his stuff until GM pulled the plug on the racing programs.Great stuff, I did not know about that, likely for dedicated racers (not street racers) only!
I know Ford also used the tunnel port heads in NASCAR, but I'm not sure of the dates. I had opportunity to buy a set once, but I passed. They were wild looking, big oval ports, and a sleeve in the middle for the pushrods to go through!
I was still in college, had just bought the 427 short block for $300 (was a 1966 Holman + Moody seasoned block with the crank cut 10 + 20, with low riser pistons, with the valve bumpers). The same guy wanted $1,500 for the Tunnel Port heads, which was way out of my reach at the time.
I later installed the engine, with 428 SCJ heads (that originally came on a Talladega) in a 1970 Boss 302 Mustang (I purchased it with a spun bearing for $800 and sold the Boss heads for $300). I told people I had the "real boss". With an Aluminum Edelbrock intake the weight was reduced enough that the car handled great with BFG Radial Trans Ams. Had 850 DP Holley, Mallory Photo Cell ignition, Hooker Headers, TRW double roller timing chain, and the Ford solid lifter cam (306 duration).
With slapper traction bars, a 3.50 pumpkin, and a small block top loader tranny (had a 2.71 first gear instead of 2.20 close ratio) I could drive it on the highway and run quarter mile competitively. It was a VG all around car for it's day!