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Drag Racing Discussions => Front Engine Dragsters => Topic started by: Rat on July 27, 2019, 05:29:28 PM
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This is my first serious race car in it various incarnations.
* How I purchased it - Yellow & White. The engine is a 186ci Holden Red, baby brother to the 262 chev
* Before I raced it we painted it Blue on Blue
* It was then done in Metal Flake Blue with Triple SU carbs
* Now fitted with fuel injection
* The engine was then changed to a 250ci crossflow Ford and the whole car stripped down, sandblasted and repainted in Ford Bronze & Gold. Fuel Injection off the Holden engine was used on this engine.
Sadly sold not long after but it is still active more than 25 years later.
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Some pics after I sold it, seems each new owner likes to change the exhaust.
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That rail would look mighty neat with a Ford Y-Block with an Y-Bloke 4-71 setup...
(http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Uploads/Images/63d3e8c2-2209-4fa7-8705-44f3.jpg)
https://youtu.be/Nrj0S6jF40c (https://youtu.be/Nrj0S6jF40c)
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What did it run?
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Calkins, It would be a wild ride with that Y block.
Flyer, With the Holden 10.98/127, with the Ford I did very few runs before selling 10.86/129. After I sold it I think it got down to 10.1 not sure on the speed. The Ford was a mates street car engine that we put the methanol fuel injection on. We flipped the engine plate and made a bellhousing, everything else was the same, 8 1/2" 3000 Stall convertor, glide. Very mild set up but it was just a fun car. 8)
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It sounds like a good setup to go out and hammer it and have fun and not have to worry about hurting much.
Cool
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It was definitely a fun car, we would run 2-3 weekends a month and do nothing to the engine other than set tappets, spark plugs every month and change the oil every meet. 8)