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289 engine, had a Carter AFB 625cfm 4 barrel carb, Edelbrock intake. I ported and polished the heads, put Hooker headers on it with 2 chamber Flowmaster 40 series mufflers. Comp Cams 270H cam kit, Comp cams roller rockers, MSD distributor and coil. Upgraded the radiator to a 4 core copper brass, should have gone aluminum, though. Can't remember what kind of water pump I got for it to be honest. Mechanical fan on it, didn't come with a clutch fan b/c the car came with A/C stock. Wasn't the strongest motor I've ever built, but it was a good street car and could tach up pretty high. Should have gotten a mechanical cam.

Got a C-4 from a 70s Ford truck so I could built it while driving the car. Put a transgo shift kit and a B&M converter, think it was around a 2400 stall. Eventually put 3.73s in it.

If I do another one it would be a little more street friendly, probably a built fuel injected 5.0L and a T-5 transmission. It'll bolt into any Mustang you want it to. Could potentially get around 25mpg highway out of it, too.

Couldn't find any pics of the engine compartment, sorry. These are old pics I'm fishing through. I wish I would have taken some pictures of my 69 Cougar convertible.

[quote="Jonathan"]If I do another one it would be a little more street friendly, probably a built fuel injected 5.0L and a T-5 transmission. It'll bolt into any Mustang you want it to. Could potentially get around 25mpg highway out of it, too.
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That would be awesome.... I still think that you should built either a 5.0 fi or 2.3 turbo for the ranger, preferably the 5.0...

But yeah, the stang sounded like it would of been a lot of fun...

The 67 Stang I had was the fun car Picture this. I go to a junkyard in search for some interior trim for the car, and during this trip you see a wrecked Mercury Comet. After further look, I pop the hood and see a 427 SOHC engine . The baddest of the bad, the Hemi killer, the one that got kicked out of Nascar because it blew everything else off the track. Apparently it was either previously a drag racer or one of the very few special order cars that snuck out of the factory with an engine that wasn't on the option list. Or a guy found one and put it in the Comet, I didn't know and I didn't care.

So anyway, after a rebuild and beefing up the motor, I go to an open drag night at Atlanta dragway, run a 10.97 on my first pass and get kicked off for not having a rollbar I should have kept the car and built it up more, I could have cracked 9s with that motor.

Jonathan wrote:The 67 Stang I had was the fun car Picture this. I go to a junkyard in search for some interior trim for the car, and during this trip you see a wrecked Mercury Comet. After further look, I pop the hood and see a 427 SOHC engine . The baddest of the bad, the Hemi killer, the one that got kicked out of Nascar because it blew everything else on the track. Apparently it was either previously a drag racer or one of the very few special order cars that snuck out of the factory with an engine that wasn't on the option list. Or a guy found one and put it in the Comet, I didn't know and I didn't care.

So anyway, after a rebuild and beefing up the motor, I go to an open drag night at Atlanta dragway, run a 10.97 on my first pass and get kicked off for not having a rollbar I should have kept the car and built it up more, I could have cracked 9s with that motor.

Thats awesome... Sometimes I want to build a 355 for the blazer with a 6 speed and ford 9" rear!


God I want so much, but have so little.