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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Howdy!
« on: February 12, 2013, 06:39:57 PM »
Tyler,

Great question. I don't know yet. I bought the car as a complete roller and haven't had a chance to check rear axle ratio yet. It's supposed to have a 1.76 Powerglide on a Coan 4500 RPM converter.

I'd guess the gearing is on the short side. I once launched on top gear and it still had plenty of motivation.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Feds about done with a 632 chevy.
« on: February 12, 2013, 06:10:43 PM »
Looks great! What's the wheelbase? Have wheelie bars, right?

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Roo Man's Room / Re: twin engine dragster questions
« on: February 09, 2013, 06:05:47 PM »
I have all the respect for the twin-V8 FED's (Freight trains and alike…), but, IMHO, the coolest twin-engine FED ever is a twin-inline-six, like Mike Kirby's “Sixsession” (partnered with Kay Sissel), chassis by Roy Fjastad/SPE. If you ever had the privilege to hear that engine duet singing, you'd never forget it. He does 7.80 at 200 MPH…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/b_a_r/2465043157/

Sound quality (and race results) on this video don't make justice:


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Spud Miller's Cave / Nitromethane article on Hot Rod magazine
« on: February 09, 2013, 09:17:00 AM »
The latest Hot Rod magazine (April/13) has a nice 7-page article about nitromethane fuel, written by Marlan Davis.

Spud's Nitro Notes (at http://fuelinjectionent.com/) remains unbeatable nevertheless.

Enjoy!

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Spud Miller's Cave / Re: What injection set up is this
« on: February 09, 2013, 07:45:16 AM »
Algon?

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BDC (Bottom Dead Center) is the lowest position the piston reaches down in the cylinder bore. The concern is having too much piston skirt exposed when the piston is at its lowest position. When excessive, that can scrape or crack the piston.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Howdy!
« on: February 07, 2013, 09:03:02 PM »
FED's were never designed to hook up. But then man invented VHT!!! I wish VHT was banned… I miss the near track-length tire smoking…

Anyway… I do hope the wheelie bars can help me. The car came with a nice set of wheelie bars, adjustable spring loaded, the old two-wheel design. I see that new cars are all mono-wheel now…

I may have to add some more weight on the front too, but that makes harder on the front axle/wheels.

My car doesn’t have front suspension, which makes rough landings very hard on the front axle and wheels. There’s asphalt mark in the middle of the front axle, showing that it flexed enough to scrape the track. I wished it had a front suspension…

As for damage, it cracked one wheel hub really bad. It bent the rim a little but it’s repairable. Those are true vintage front wheels. The frame rails are a little sagged on the front section of the car, which I initially thought it was consequence of that pass, but after reviewing pictures it looks like that sagging is older than that. The car itself is 40 years old or so.

I’m not home this week, but as soon as I come home and find time I want to take some pictures and measurements and post a dedicated topic here, looking for suggestions on how to tame my motivated wheelstander.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: cooling the fed
« on: February 05, 2013, 05:58:34 PM »
I think your decision will heavily depend on what fuel (gas or alky) you use. And also how lean (or fat) is tuned.

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Roo Man's Room / Re: FED Steering question?
« on: February 05, 2013, 05:53:45 PM »
I'm updating my tired box and I've been researching on this. Both Strange (www.strangeengineering.net) and Pro-werks (www.pro-werks.com) make nice boxes. Rooman (Keith Burgan) has both.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: XXXXo guys
« on: February 03, 2013, 12:39:57 PM »
Sweet ride! I liked the weight arrangement on the front axle. Is that a sort of lead-made sleave?? I need one like these!

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Very cool Glenn. Nice setup, with the garage on main floor and shop in the basement. Clean, organized and well equipped.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Re: Howdy!
« on: February 02, 2013, 03:21:23 PM »
I do have wheelie bars! But they didn't help... being left in the trailer. The thing is that nobody believed taht the old and dried up  slicks would bite... but yes they did.

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Front Engine Dragsters / Howdy!
« on: February 02, 2013, 02:25:12 PM »
Thanks Glen, Spud, Roo and everybody else behind this FED forum.

I’m a FED nut from Columbus, IN (originally from Brazil) with just a couple test passes on my nostalgia FED. The biggest lesson I learned so far is: “It’s not as simple as it looks!”… so please be patient with me as I’ll be asking a lot of questions and advices.

The rig is an old 173’ wheelbase FED I bought as a roller in Markle, IN in 2005. Then I slowly built a SBC 406 (mostly from swap meet used parts), topped with a 1963 Hilborn fuel Injector, model 265-C-8C (1"-13/16").

Here’s a couple videos of the first fire up after engine build:



Then the first test passes, in Bean Blossom, IN. A lot of improvisation to make it there, in the last day of the season in 2011:


Then one more test pass in 2012…


As you can see… there’s a lot to be learned!

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