Kudos to Ford

Casey Miles · 09-01-2011, 03:36 PM

I'm disappointed with the Mopar racecars, two of them that I know of broke with serious problems, yet the Fords stayed together. You have to give Ford credit for building a reliable piece that goes very fast in any class you put them. I thought that the V-10's would show their muscle, but the Fords just trumped them.

Casey Miles
248H Stock

Chad Rhodes · 09-01-2011, 03:41 PM

No replacement for artificial atmosphere.

Troy Pourciau · 09-01-2011, 04:04 PM

I'm a GM guy but Casey is right. The Ford engines stay together even with blowers on them... LOL

Chad Rhodes · 09-01-2011, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Troy Pourciau

I'm a GM guy but Casey is right. The Ford engines stay together even with blowers on them... LOL

might wanna ask Bill Skillman about that, but i heard it was self inflicted

Tom P · 09-01-2011, 04:28 PM

The Mod Motor seems to do OK, not a SS car but 6.19 at 235 is stout.

And that's not even the big 5.4 the CJ has, it's the smaller 4.6 with a factory block, crank and heads.

Sean Cour · 09-01-2011, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes

might wanna ask Bill Skillman about that, but i heard it was self inflicted

Chad, didn't Skillman stand it way up? Might have hit the pan or starved it of oil?

Alan Roehrich · 09-01-2011, 04:49 PM

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Chad, didn't Skillman stand it way up? Might have hit the pan or starved it of oil?

He stood it up twice, and dropped it, twice in consecutive qualifying rounds. He spun the tires hard in his third qualifying shot. Then in the first round, his opponent went red and he spun the tires even harder, then drove it through, it blew up about 900' and shut the track down for about an hour or so in the middle of round one.

Capri · 09-01-2011, 09:28 PM

The oil pump pick up broke off. When that happened it burned it up and left a quater sized hole in the pan. There was oil completely covering under the car, and all over the rear end of the car.

Glad to see they took the time the change motors and go race this weekend.

novassdude · 09-01-2011, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Casey Miles

I'm disappointed with the Mopar racecars, two of them that I know of broke with serious problems, yet the Fords stayed together. You have to give Ford credit for building a reliable piece that goes very fast in any class you put them. I thought that the V-10's would show their muscle, but the Fords just trumped them.

Casey Miles
248H Stock

When you get to run comp style motors that are way under rated it is not hard to go fast in lots of classes.

Damn Yankee · 09-01-2011, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by novassdude

When you get to run comp style motors that are way under rated it is not hard to go fast in lots of classes.

There's nothing Comp Style about a manley shelf rod, regular forged pistons, and steel valves. If these things wore Bowties, it would be like chirping crickets when it comes to all of the hating going on

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Casey Miles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 692 Likes: 119 Liked 445 Times in 83 Posts	Kudos to Ford I'm disappointed with the Mopar racecars, two of them that I know of broke with serious problems, yet the Fords stayed together. You have to give Ford credit for building a reliable piece that goes very fast in any class you put them. I thought that the V-10's would show their muscle, but the Fords just trumped them. Casey Miles 248H Stock

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Chad Rhodes VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Where the Green Grass Grows, AL Posts: 2,375 Likes: 0 Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Kudos to Ford No replacement for artificial atmosphere. __________________ Chad Rhodes 2113 I/SA

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Troy Pourciau Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Baton Rouge, LA. Posts: 678 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Kudos to Ford I'm a GM guy but Casey is right. The Ford engines stay together even with blowers on them... LOL

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Tom P Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 698 Likes: 29 Liked 220 Times in 89 Posts	Re: Kudos to Ford The Mod Motor seems to do OK, not a SS car but 6.19 at 235 is stout. And that's not even the big 5.4 the CJ has, it's the smaller 4.6 with a factory block, crank and heads.

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Capri Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 171 Likes: 0 Liked 29 Times in 15 Posts	Re: Kudos to Ford The oil pump pick up broke off. When that happened it burned it up and left a quater sized hole in the pan. There was oil completely covering under the car, and all over the rear end of the car. Glad to see they took the time the change motors and go race this weekend.