Pump Gas A460 BBF in 71 Mustang Convertable

The car is a work in progress, but to date its run a best of 10.12 135 at 4250# with driver.

The combination is an IDT premier block at 4.532 bore and 4.5 stroke Scat forged crank, Scat 6.8 rods, JE 11:1 pistons. Heads are A460 2.30 intake as "rubbed on" by Charlie Evans, from Lem Evans with a port matched tall runner TFS A460 manifold. Comp 269/277 roller, with Crane Ultrapro lifters, Jesel 1.8 shaft rockers, Manton pushrods. Trans is a Lentech AOD with a 4000 stall Edge 9" converter, 3.89 9" and 325/50/15 Hoosier drag radials. Fuel and spark are managed by EMS-Pro Megasquirt EFI from EFI Source.

We tuned it on the Mustang chassis dyno at Westech and made 708 HP at the tires at 6400.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hURJ7cGE37w&feature=channel

Still chasing a decent 60 ft. this one at Firebird in April was a 1.505 the best its done. I need a better front spring to get the weight transfered as I have to roll on the throttle to keep from spinning at the initial launch. As pictured it has 750# road race fornt springs and I'm going try some 260# Moroso Trick springs I had lying around if I can get thwm in the car. See post in suspension section.

Welcome........glad to hear from you
4,250#........fox body deals like to talk about being 3,150# .

Cool. Have I seen the car in a drag week article a couple years ago? Have to go back and check. Very cool

Hey Lem, good to be heard from, the economy has slowed down my progress a bit.

J.Toney, yup that was it. I broke in '05, won the the BB/NA class in '06 and runner-upped in BB/NA in 07.

Love this car/build/use.

Nice runs for a big car. I agree. That front spring is probably a tad heavy.








Doug...

Awesome build man!
Although I'm wondering how my 73 coupe weighs so much less
Is the car still full body and interior?

The weight is a combination of full interior, dynamat etc., full chro-mo cage, subframe connectors, Strange fabricated rear-end housing, the IDT block, full stock style gas tank, and finally my fat carcass. The car wieghs just under 4000# without me in it.

Awesome car!! My first car was a 72 Mach 1. I've always loved them.

Bill

Maddmattmustangs wrote:Awesome build man!
Although I'm wondering how my 73 coupe weighs so much less
Is the car still full body and interior?

My cousins 73 Mustang with 466 and Blue Thunder Aluminum heads with a roll bar weighed i think 3,630 lbs with him in it.

Later Mark.