project freebird

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[Doobie]

01. Block stock 1989

Displacement: 302
CR: what ever came stock
02. Heads

Brand:stock
Model: e7
Ported?: no
03. Camshaft (If the camshaft is custom, NOT providing this information is understandable, and NOT expected)

Brand: x303
Int./Exh. Duration @.050": custom 224/224
Int./Exh. Lift: custom 542/542
Lobe Separation Angle: custom 112
04. Induction

Carbureted
Intake: Unported edelbrock rpm air gap
Carb/Injector Size: holley 600 vac w/race bowl,s
05. Tuner:me
06. Exhaust

Style: heddman 1 5/8  long tube
Diameter: 3"
Catted: no
"X"
Mufflers: flowmaster
07. Power Adder: none
08. Transmission

Manual/Auto: auto
Model: c-4
Converter Stall: continental 2500 stal 1350 flash 2600
09. Gears

Style: junk yard
Ratio: 3:70
Differential Style: spool
10. split mono caltrac,s
11. stock 65 falcon w/granada spindel,s caltrac,s 90/10 shock,s six banger spring,s
12. Tires: 235/60/15 micky,s drag radial
13. Car Weight: 3020 with me

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Time Slip:

60ft: 1.839
330ft: 5.338
1/8th ET: 8.294
1/8th MPH: 82.96
1/4 ET: 13.038
1/4 MPH: 103.19
COMMENTS/OBSERVATIONS
my best time yet only to have a piture taken and see a horrible toe in problem and will not let the front end settel down go ahead give me any thought,s i only 5200.00 in this car and yes i got this car for freeeeeeee my frist ford

[Doobie]

 Going to Famoso in the morning  for the west coast hot rod spring national's.
Will see  what the new radiator ,wheel alignment and 650 DP bring's . My 63 falcon already runs cooler ,drive's better  and light's my little drag radial's up on the street and  it would not do that  before.I  think i'm learning something it only took 4 day's and 5 minutes on sbftech.com

[Doobie]

Well here goes .The car ran great all weekend . the 650 dp worked awesome .
   
   60... 1.794
 
330... 5.312

 1/8...8.309

mph...81.64

1000...10.920

 1/4...13.156

mph...100.36

mph and et  slowed down  while my 60 picked up and the front end is still fubar i  have a video
the front end is fully extended as if a floor jack was under it barely letting the tire touch the ground

[Doobie]

Ok know one ever commit's so here we go.
I was offered a 91 lx hatch w/pony's or weld's drag lite's 5.0 5 spd bone stock  needs paint.
For my falcon i can keep my motor & tran's what do you think

[302ute]

Here's my comment, keep the ol' girl. The old cars just have a certain character that the newer stuff hasn't got. I like the old stuff

[Ammosteve]

I agree....Keep the Falcon.   LX's are a dime a dozen.

Steve

[Doobie]

 The problem is this car is it was alway's for sale. And with the front end wow's. It almost seal's it.
I put a limiter on the  front susp it helped but unloaded the rear on the street the car is just a plain
handfull not power wise all front suspension

[the only Qualk]

keep the falcon... and you have other options for front suspension too. and for rear.... hope you have subframe connectors too

[289nate]

I've got a good buddy who I go to the track with who has a 351w powered early white falcon like yours.  Apparently it was a mess at the track until he had the right guy do the alignment.  Now it goes straight as an arrow and ran low 12's at LACR.  Now he races at Irwindale very regularly.  You may have seen him around. 

I would stick with the Falcon from what you describe.  Where do you have the car listed for sale?

[Doobie]

 I have a friend of mine willing to take a look at it he has apair of bad ass ford's  his name is
 John Calvert. He said to bring it to him i told him whats up with it he  had his 68 cobra jet mustang up on the lift and showed me what to look for.

[68mustang405]

On the front do you have the support bars from the firewall to shock towers? I had some bad toe in till i reinstalled those. Helped a little.

[Doobie]

yes car has engine bar motor mt to motor mt braces from the shock tower's monte carlo bar .car was 6 cyl has all new 65 falcon v8 steering 77 granda spindel's  cal trac's 90/10 crite's sub frame connector's
9inch 3.70 w/ spool split  mono leaf cal trac's draglite's 235 drag radial this car work's it transfer's
the weight raises up by the time it's gone 10 feet u know some thing is wrong 320hp and the front
end is still rising 

[289nate]

I have a friend of mine willing to take a look at it he has apair of bad ass ford's  his name is
 John Calvert.

Funny, never heard of him.   He's still in Palmdale right?

[Doobie]

 NO he's in lancaster ave G and 35 west

[Doobie]

I did what John Calvert said to do, took a torch to the steering arms, bent them down as far as I could, let them cool, and then heated them up again and bent them up horizontal so the tie rod would be parallel to the lower control arm.  My falcon picked up 3.5 tenths and 5 mph.  Ran a 12.81 at 104.99 with my little 600 vaccuum secondary Holley.  Wish I still had my buddys 650 Double Pumper. On a greater note my daughter won her first drag race in the Sportsman category.  It was only her 3rd race! Her junkyard Nova ran 12.23 at 110 mph.