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RE: Gotta love those old Fords!
By Mike McQuesten - 02/15/2002 11:21:55 AM; IP 206.193.0.120
The 41,000 mile Y block/cruiso? I gave the dynamic duo to a friend who had helped me numerous times. He had been the shop foreman for many years at the small Ford dealership I had worked at back in '69. He is still one of the sharpest old school mechanics I've ever known. Actually he may be the sharpest. He installed the set into a '53 F100. I agree that the Y block could be a real shocker if "worked and equipped" well like yours was. I had a '57 'bird in '68-'69 w/312 & stick. All I ever wanted to do to it was replace the '12 with an FE. Never did. Got married. Down the road the lil'bird went. Along with a lot of other things.....

Hey, SDP, it would be interesting to hear what you're doing to that 352 to get into the 13's. I know 352s can be built to run hard. I've mentioned him before, but there's a Yakima, WA guy named Jerry Pruitt who held a national record in one of the lower stock NHRA classes a few years ago with a '64 Ford Custom 2 door sedan & 352. He was running mid 11's. Maybe Travis could check the NHRA archives on this?

Last time I saw Jerry he had switched the 352 to a fox body '80s 'stang and was preparing to run one of the SS/GT classes. Then I heard he had it for sale so he could focus restoring one of Portland, OR's Bill Ireland's old SS cars....A '61 Starliner, 401 horse warrior.

I'm very impressed with SDP's '64 running low 13's with a 390. Your '64 was a couple hundred pounds heftier than my '61. Mine weighed an honest 3,860. This was with the 428CJ/aluminum PI, CJ-C6; Crites T-bolt style glass hood & Crites glass rear bumper.

Hey Greg, I can't get to that site from this computer. I'll try it at home this weekend.
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Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=11405&Reply=11405><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor11405" onclick="return false;">'60 HP 352 info for Nitro</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Mike McQuesten, <i>02/14/2002</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=11405', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor11405') }); </script>  '60 HP 352 info for Nitro -- Mike McQuesten, 02/14/2002
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=11408&Reply=11405><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor11408" onclick="return false;">RE: and the 352HP?</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Mike McQuesten, <i>02/14/2002</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=11408', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor11408') }); </script>  RE: and the 352HP? -- Mike McQuesten, 02/14/2002
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=11412&Reply=11405><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor11412" onclick="return false;">RE: and the 352HP?</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Nitro, <i>02/14/2002</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=11412', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor11412') }); </script>  RE: and the 352HP? -- Nitro, 02/14/2002
 RE: 152 mph stock! -- Mike McQuesten, 02/14/2002
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=11415&Reply=11405><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor11415" onclick="return false;">Gotta love those old Fords!</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Nitro, <i>02/14/2002</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=11415', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor11415') }); </script>  Gotta love those old Fords! -- Nitro, 02/14/2002
Collapse <b>RE: Gotta love those old Fords!</b>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Mike McQuesten, <i>02/15/2002</i></font>RE: Gotta love those old Fords! -- Mike McQuesten, 02/15/2002
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=11447&Reply=11405><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor11447" onclick="return false;">RE: Gotta love those old Fords!</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Travis Miller, <i>02/15/2002</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=11447', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor11447') }); </script>  RE: Gotta love those old Fords! -- Travis Miller, 02/15/2002
 RE: 352/250 horse SS/N? -- Mike McQuesten, 02/17/2002
 RE:All steel -- SDP, 02/17/2002
 Maybe you'll like this Mike.. -- Greg, 02/14/2002
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=11430&Reply=11405><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor11430" onclick="return false;">RE: Great info</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>SDP, <i>02/14/2002</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=11430', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor11430') }); </script>  RE: Great info -- SDP, 02/14/2002
 info -- Lou, 02/18/2002
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