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Offline SaltRat

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Re: XF/BGALT 1985 Mustang
« Reply #30 on: July 14, 2014, 06:31:33 PM »
Love the orange car.  best wishes for a healthy recovery . . .
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Re: XF/BGALT 1985 Mustang
« Reply #31 on: July 14, 2014, 08:09:54 PM »
Phil, glad you are on the mend! I hope to see you and the 'stang on the salt! :cheers:
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Re: XF/BGALT 1985 Mustang
« Reply #32 on: July 18, 2014, 06:34:17 PM »
well learned something new today, although I guess I should have know this. Got some head gaskets from Flatout with the combustion chamber and valve pocket area undersize so I could fit them to my block(flathead ford V8). I matched one up to a spare block, same bore, and then to my valve relief area on the heads I am going to run. Well, put the gasket on the motor in the car and the bores are off by .050 or more. Seems the bore spacing is just not the same. Passenger side is worse than the driver's side. I guess I would have to make the gaskets, block and heads a matched set from the start.

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Re: XF/BGALT 1985 Mustang
« Reply #33 on: July 11, 2015, 05:41:44 PM »
went to chassis dyno today and we are pleased that our motor is improving. May not sound like much to you guys but it made 223 rear wheels, still climbing at 4700 rpm. that's supercharged flathead on gas. Picture is plugs after one run, what do you guys think?


Offline ronnieroadster

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Re: XF/BGALT 1985 Mustang
« Reply #34 on: July 11, 2015, 08:32:45 PM »
Looks a bit lean to me. What brand and heat range is the spark plug? Did you pull the plug after a clean shut off on the engine just after the pull?
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 ECTA  XF/BGRMR Record 179.8561
 LTA    XF/BGRMR  Record 200.921 First  Ever Ford Flathead Roadster to hit 200 MPH burning gasoline July 2018
 SCTA  XF/BGRMR Record 205.744  First gas burning Ford flathead powered roadster to top 200 MPH at Bonneville August 7, 2021 top speed 219.717
 SCTA  XXF/BGRMR Record 216.131 plus a Red Hat
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Re: XF/BGALT 1985 Mustang
« Reply #35 on: July 11, 2015, 09:43:34 PM »
Hi Ron,
NGK B7HS, backed the car on the chassis dyno, changed plugs, made one pull, drove off dyno onto trailer. EGT peaked at 1200

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Re: XF/BGALT 1985 Mustang
« Reply #36 on: July 11, 2015, 10:35:16 PM »
Considering you drove off the dyno and onto the trailer I would think the plug would have gotten a bit darker. EGT temps are not bad but best reading would be air fuel during the pull. Still looks lean but when your running at the higher elevation at Speed Week the color will certainly get a bit darker. Are your plugs 3/4 inch long?
   
Working in the shop I use the 'F' word a lot. No not that word these words Focus and Finish go Fast and Flathead Ford!
 ECTA  XF/BGRMR Record 179.8561
 LTA    XF/BGRMR  Record 200.921 First  Ever Ford Flathead Roadster to hit 200 MPH burning gasoline July 2018
 SCTA  XF/BGRMR Record 205.744  First gas burning Ford flathead powered roadster to top 200 MPH at Bonneville August 7, 2021 top speed 219.717
 SCTA  XXF/BGRMR Record 216.131 plus a Red Hat
"Life Member of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club"

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Re: XF/BGALT 1985 Mustang
« Reply #37 on: July 12, 2015, 08:04:25 AM »
afr during pull was 11.7. Spark plugs are 1/2 reach. We tried extended reach iridium and some hit the valves.

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Re: XF/BGALT 1985 Mustang
« Reply #38 on: July 12, 2015, 06:48:35 PM »
The air fuel ratio is very safe I think your in good shape.   :cheers:
Working in the shop I use the 'F' word a lot. No not that word these words Focus and Finish go Fast and Flathead Ford!
 ECTA  XF/BGRMR Record 179.8561
 LTA    XF/BGRMR  Record 200.921 First  Ever Ford Flathead Roadster to hit 200 MPH burning gasoline July 2018
 SCTA  XF/BGRMR Record 205.744  First gas burning Ford flathead powered roadster to top 200 MPH at Bonneville August 7, 2021 top speed 219.717
 SCTA  XXF/BGRMR Record 216.131 plus a Red Hat
"Life Member of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club"