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Your Builds / Photo Gallery / Re: We are all proud of our shops Post pictures here.

« on: February 06, 2013, 05:26:03 PM »

i have a 1600sf garage separet and away from the house. if my wife saw my garage that clean, she would be calling a doctor for me. lol

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: cooling the fed

« on: February 06, 2013, 05:00:57 PM »

"FEDs need to be towed back !!"... the kids job is to drive it. i'm not going to chase it. 

glenn, who makes that radiator and how wide is it?

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: cooling the fed

« on: February 05, 2013, 06:19:22 PM »

we run gas. i try to keep it as simple as possible. but building a buick is not so simple sometimes. 

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Front Engine Dragsters / cooling the fed

« on: February 05, 2013, 05:41:06 PM »

the driver, my son, likes to do laps with any car i build including the rail. so the engine is kind of built nascar style. lol. how many of you use a radiator and what do you use?

john

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: FEDs Forever!

« on: February 03, 2013, 10:25:27 AM »

hey, a new england guy.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: new fed guy

« on: February 03, 2013, 10:23:36 AM »

yeah, but they make parts for fords. try a 350 buick. actually any small block buick. hi-po parts are not available. struggle all the time. thankfully my background as a r&d machinist helps a lot.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: new fed guy

« on: February 02, 2013, 09:47:21 PM »

i keep a tread going on a buick site. as far as pictures go, thats way beyond my technology. don't know how to use or have a cell phone, them digital cameras, program a vcr and a host of other oddities. and don't want to learn. 

http://www.buickperformancegroup.com/forums/showthread.php?10942-ANOTHER-350-PROJECT

the rail is pretty much original. p-s spindles and box, airheart brakes, summer axles. want to get period correct rims for it sometime. oldie but a goodie.

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Front Engine Dragsters / new fed guy

« on: February 02, 2013, 09:23:08 PM »

bought a 1968 192" fed out of cali over a yr ago. i will be the frankenstein guy here because i am running a 350 buick engine. why the frankenstein? the 350 is now 363. 283 chevy pistons, ford nascar rods with honda bearings, mopar intake modified to fit the 350 and whatever other parts it takes to make it work. have made a mopar single plane and a b&m blower setup. currently TRYING to make a 4-71 hapmton blower fit on the engine. lot of little issues to make things work. hopefully be done for testing when spring breaks.