lets see your hot rods

[Tiger]

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my wifes christmas present to me.....yipeee

[CabezaBlanca]

my wifes christmas present to me.....yipeee

Oh hell yea!

[HDWRENCH]

Thanks! That's kinda what I thought it was.




Thank you for clearing that up. That makes a whole lot more sense now!

well its clear your not a gear head , sorry what is not clear . Two NOS kits MSD grid controlling my launch RPM on the trans brake

[HDWRENCH]

Thanks! That's kinda what I thought it was.




Thank you for clearing that up. That makes a whole lot more sense now!

well its clear your not a gear head , sorry what is not clear . Two NOS kits MSD grid controlling my launch RPM on the trans brake

[bowhunt3]

Nice hot rods

[Archery1st]

1926 Ford Tall T 4x4, 383 Stroker 500+ HP

[switchbackxt]

https://youtu.be/79yeT_r6XuE

My hot rod is the F250 and the wife’s is the vette

[Artos]

Sorry, need to get some decent pics...50th anniversary Camaro ZL1. Really more of a road course / sports car than a traditional hot rod, but seems most are running them at the 1/4 mile anyway.

[txpitdog]

‘18 stang, supercharged. 740 at the wheel.




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Nice ride! That will be my next vehicle after my truck is paid off.

Is that all Roush or did you do something like a Whipple or Procharger? Any other mods or just the supercharger?


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[HDWRENCH]

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[Dmillerdesign]

Definitely not a hot rod, but here's my classic money pit




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[Tryton]

my wifes christmas present to me.....yipeee

Very nice!

[shawn d]

65 f100

[RifleBowPistol]

RBP LS engine S480 E85 and put 1000-1100 to the tire call it good.. Its silly how much boost a 5.3 Gen IV will take with no upgraded internals rotating parts. I have a 5.3 that I plan to drop into my 62 with the 480 turbo. For a race car I would use a 4.8 and bang onit the 4.8 is tougher than the 5.3 and in a light weight set and big gear no need to worry about tq for street use .

I have better parts than that, not going to step down. I have been racing cars for a long time. For many years, I spent a lot of time researching air flow, cam designs, on and on and on. I made quite a bit more power than most anyone else would with the combos I built. My thing has been or way and still is to some degree, high revving small blocks, that make a lot of hp. My coupe has always been NA, I would love to keep it NA, but times have changed most of the good class racing that used to exist is gone. Now we have this stupid no prep crap, street racing wanna be crap. I have been working on many other people's cars for years, put together many blower and turbo combos for other people. They make power very easily. Of power adder cars, I love turbo cars, with T4 based turbos typically. I love the combos that will make boost very easily at lower rpms. Those are blast to drive on the street. I have built multiple cars with 80 and 88 mm turbos, they make hp, but don't spool near as easily, not with a small block. I can easily put a combo together with a 7675, that will put down 700 to 800 whp without any issues, have great driveabilty and a blast to drive. Yea, I could turn the boost up and make around 1000 whp with a good Precision 7675, that power level is hard to use on the street when it comes on. 700 whp can be very hard to hook up on the street, but with the right parts it can be done and be a blast. That's basically what I would like for a street toy.
I am going to leave the Doug Nash in the coupe, that is my fun toy, I love racing manual transmission cars, banging gears. I have learned a lot about making cars work very well and making hp, since my car last ran. I built my car to go out and kick LS ***. All the talk about how great LS engines are, I made it a point to build something I knew would win against LS powered cars and it was fast, I beat a lot of cars with it and bikes. I shocked a lot of guys on bikes, full exhaust so it's much quieter than typical track only car. I used to drive it a lot on the street. I beat many guys on bikes, that were stunned that I beat them on the bottom end, then kept pulling away on the top end. That was when the car had a long list of problems. I could put it back together with the parts I have and make it into a low 9 second car NA. I would love driving the car, but the only problem is, there are no classes I could race it in now, not in Texas or the southern part of the country. You have to go to the mid west and north east, to the NMCA and NMRA races, to actually find good class racing. I could do pretty good there. But it would cost a small fortune to race up there regularly. I know multiple guys who used to do it, they have a lot more money than me, they all gave it up because of what it costs to race in those series.
So racing locally, if I added boost, I could make my car very competitive against the boosted or nitrous cars, in classes that I really don't care to run in, but that's all that's left, drag racing seems to be dying fairly quickly.

If I bought a pair of Edelbrock 7721 heads ported them, got a intake to match, ported it, put a lighter weight crank in my engine, lighter weight I beam rods and some newer lighter, higher compression pistons, then a different cam. I could put my car in the 8s NA. That would be a blast, banging gears, turning 9000 + rpm and kicking some high hp boosted car butt. Or I could just change the cam and pistons out in my engine, then add the Novi blower that I paid $500 for and run just as fast. I would prefer to stick to a NA combo, that's always been my thing, was always my plan for the coupe, was to always stay NA. I used to have a 86 coupe many years ago, I won a lot of races with that car, a lot of those races were against cars, that I should of had no chance against. Many cars with blowers or nitrous. I had a mostly stock 86 H.O. engine in the car, just ported the heads and intake made my own headers, exhaust ect. My blue coupe, was to be my second serious butt kicking NA 85/86 coupe and it has done so, but not to the degree that the 86 coupe did. I fought a lot of traction problems with the blue coupe. I think I can get the blue coupe to 60' very hard now, with what I know now. As for the LS engine idea, I have a RDI aluminum block, that is good for a lot of hp, new they are over $4000. I got it for $1700 many years ago. The crank is a older Eagle forged 4340 3.4 stroke crank, Eagle H beams and what were some expensive JE ultra light weight pistons at the time I had them built. Now days they would be common weight pistons. I can get a lot lighter pistons now days, from JE or other companies. The TFS TW heads I have, started off as 170cc heads but are quite a bit larger now and flow a lot more. They really don't go with the short block mainly the block I have. I got a good deal on the block, so I built a short block and put my same heads and intake on that block. That block weighs about the same as a common 5.0 roller block, which is what I used to run, but it's a lot stronger. If I would have stepped up to a R block or a Dart block, I would have added probably 50 to 70 lbs. to the front of the car, with the RDI block, it's very close to the same weight. So putting a LS engine in my car would be stepping down a few notches. They have cheap rods, cranks and pistons. The heads are pretty good, basically copied Ford small block Windsor design heads. The blocks are similar to an old Ford FE block or a Ford mod motor block. But then GM used a oiling system identical to a Ford Cleveland oiling system, which is a bad design. Those engines are not perfect by any means, but much better than the old SBCs, they replaced. I don't and won't do a engine swap of any kind, it's stupid if you ask me.

I would still prefer to leave it NA and go as fast as possible, with some of the pieces I have. Then build another car to put my other good block into and possibly put twin 7675s on, then make some big numbers. Along with the RDI block, I have a Ford Racing R block, it will handle a lot of hp, it was in a 7 second car years ago. Something like that, I could run in numerous different races and do very well. But it's not really my thing, but that's what exists today. I wish someone would bring back good class racing, but I don't think it will happen. Attendance at drag strips is very low, hard to fill stands, a lot of tracks have closed. So promoters are going to the one class run what you brung, no prep, keep the guys putting on the race, cost's as low as possible. That crap is killing racing, nobody is going to the track anymore, sitting at home on their phones watching no prep street racing, with a bunch of cars that can't hook for crap.

[KyleW]

Tag for later. I am about to start helping restore a '66 (I believe) mustang and will get pics once it is rolled out of the garage under its own power.