I've been considering the 64" leafs and inverted shackles for a while, really easy way to get travel out of the back of a ranger on the cheap, just need money to do something with the front at the same time.
I've been talking with Tex (owner of the truck) lately. He had the dowel on the cam come out along with cam bolts and it wasted the engine at the last race. He was running a stock 302 out of a fox body. He cleaned up the exhaust ports on the E7TE heads and ran it with a 650 Holley DP, Performer RPM type dual plane intake that was a Summit brand and a B303 cam. I think he said it made 199hp at the wheels. I've been helping him match up parts for a new engine that he's trying to get ready for the Battle At Primm race in February. He already dropped the engine block off to be machined and has a couple different heads that he's deciding between. The new combo should make around 400-430 at the crank depending on which head he goes with and what cam. He's going to call me after Christmas and I'll probably meet up with him to help him get it assembled some time in January.
I met up with Tex today and helped him tune the engine. His first pull was 253/308 which is 54rwhp and about 50rwtq more than he made with his old combo. After tuning it put down 261/353.
I met up with Tex today and helped him tune the engine. His first pull was 253/308 which is 54rwhp and about 50rwtq more than he made with his old combo. After tuning it put down 261/353.
That is a nice bump in power over the old combo. Should be fun.
He took it out last weekend to break in the engine before we tuned it. The area he used to have the biggest issue with was the deep sand washes. Before it would take him a while to pick up enough speed in second to shift to third. Once in third he would start to slow back down and have to go back to second. He didn't go into as deep of sand as he usually runs in but he said in the sand he was in he was only giving it half throttle in third and the truck had no problems.
The first video was the old engine. It was a 302 with 10:1 compression, a B303 cam and E7TE heads that he cleaned up himself. The new combo has 9.7 compression, a much larger Crower cam that is a custom grind for his combo and the heads are box stock TFS Twisted Wedge.
