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Front Engine Dragsters / slip yoke and u-joint

« on: January 14, 2020, 09:06:09 PM »

I bought my FED with a shorty powerglide and a '63 Pontiac/Olds differential installed. Between the two are the drive shaft style slip yoke from the trans and a u-joint bolted to the diff pinion u-joint flange. It has a 3/16" steel 2 piece cover around everything that's bolted together with 4 bolts, and held in position by a mount extended back from the transmission mount holes. I also added a 1 inch wide steel band that's bolted around the cover, (just in case). I believe this is how this 1969 FED was originally engineered. We plan to put about 850 HP through this. Does this setup sound adequate? So far we got it to run 8.32 with a 1.15 60 foot. I window'd the block at about 1100-1200 feet. The new engine should be stronger than the old one by about 100 hp.

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Front Engine Dragsters / GOT MY LICENSE...FINALLY

« on: May 01, 2019, 10:25:12 AM »

After two years of hurdles and setbacks, my brother Mike, my son Andrew and a long time friend Tom helped me get my NHRA competition license passes completed this past Saturday! Huge respect for all you guys that are faster (almost all of you are) than mine. My adrenaline is just now getting back to normal!

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Front Engine Dragsters / water or not

« on: April 02, 2019, 01:01:08 PM »

Hey guys, hopefully you can help me settle a dispute on the topic of water or no water in a injected methanol FED with a cast iron Pontiac factory block. I was told that if it is a factory cast iron block that you MUST run water. True? The block has
"hard blok" in it and the heads are Edelbrock aluminum. If it has to have water, does it have to have a radiator? Or can it simply circulate through the engine without one? I just don't see many FEDs running water and radiators unless they are running race gas.

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Front Engine Dragsters / vac pump or puke tank?

« on: July 31, 2018, 10:15:52 AM »

I know that evac pump kits have been discussed before, but I can't seem to find in the NHRA rulebook where puke tanks are mandated for specific FEDs. I have a 190" alky FED (no blower) with Ron's injection on a 7.50 cert chassis and 428 Pontiac.  If it isn't required to have the a hose coming off each valve cover going into a large puke tank, I will just run a evac pump off one valve cover and a breather tank. I hope to run NE3 or NE2 at some point. Any help with the rules here will be appreciated!