PONY ENGINE, ROW - NORWALK

We've got an engine slop in the shop today as we get this pro touring pony ready for a brand new 351

today on horsepower TV,

it made over 400 horsepower on our engine

dyno.

Now we'll get ready to drop the 351 Windsor into our project pro touring pony

and we'll give you some engine swapping tips along the way.

Our race of the week takes you to Norwalk

for an historic I hr a top stock shootout

plus a quick tech on the latest in horsepower enhancing Laughing Gas.

No joke.

So hang on for horsepower TV.

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Hey, welcome to the shop. You know, Mustangs have played a part in racing ever since the beginning, whether it's drag racing or road racing like this classic Shelby here. Now, this one's been decked out for vintage road racing, just check out that Plexiglas rear window that's designed

to vent air out of the cockpit.

Now, on the inside of the cockpit, you're gonna find a full roll cage and a brace of those classic Stewart Warner instruments.

The outside is all business too.

Check out those PSE five spoke aluminum wheels mounting Who's your racing rubber

under the hood?

Well, we've got a 289 that cranks out about 450 horsepower thanks to a Holly car mounted on an Edelbrock Victor Junior intake. And of course, the whole fuel mix is funneled into a pair of dart heads. Well, whether you're racing or just pro touring, we're all in the hunt for more horse power, which brings us to today's project

when I bought the 65 fast back, someone else had already swapped in a late model 5 L and a five speed overdrive. But I gotta tell you after driving the car a while, I could tell both were a little bit weak. So today we're gonna jerk them both out to make way for this Ford Motor sport. 351 Windsor

that will later back with the trim, make heavy duty overdrive.

Now, you might remember this engine from a few months ago,

we strapped it to our land and sea engine dyno

during a small block crate motor shoot out and it pegged the horsepower needle at 406

and that ought to be enough to get the job done. What do you think? Well, I think that's about enough talking or will never get this job done.

Tell you what, I'm gonna go ahead and finish up on the battery while you drain the fluids. Then we can both get on the hood,

then we can disconnect the carbon linkage.

Remove the radio and fan,

then disconnect the electrical connections.

Now, here's a tip for you. Make sure you tag all the electrical connections and hoses. That way you'll know where they go once the new engines in.

Well, now we can disconnect the exhaust,

the clutch linkage at the back of the bell housing

the bell housing boats

and finally the motor mount.

Ok, looking good. There,

there we go. Hey, that wasn't so bad after all. Hey, not so fast. We still have to get the transmission out and you know what that means? That means I better remove the console and the shifter. You bet I'll keep cranking here and get this thing out of the way.

That's ok.

I get this boot off and

be ready to wretch.

Ok.

Got the car up in the air and let's check things out.

Well, looks like we're gonna have to get rid of what's left of this

pipe here so we can get to that transmission.

Hey, good job. Hey, thanks.

And now that everything is clear under here, I can get to the transmission with our jack

and once I get it up, I can get started on that cross member

early model Mustangs use a front sump oil pan. While our Ford Motor sports 351 here uses a dual sump.

Let me get this out of your way. Good idea because we're gonna swap that one out for this one we got from Canton racing.

It's a seven quart pan with these side kick outs to give us plenty of clearance. And it's also got a scraper and internal baffling that keeps the oil away from the crank to reduce parasitic power losses. Now, to make the whole deal work, you also need to order one of their special pickups.

Now it just bolts right here in place of the stalker. All right. Well, keep your place because we'll be back with more of our engine swap right after this

makes the hair on your arms stand up. I mean, it's a thrill.

Enjoy the thrills when history repeats itself at the I hr A world finals in Norwalk, watch these monumental muscle cars compete in a heads up top stock shootout later on horsepower.

Hey, welcome back. You know, with the engine out now is a great time to power wash paint and detail the engine compartment. After all, we don't wanna throw that brand new engine into a pile of grease. So what we did was we went out and rented a portable power washer and we left the car on the hoist so I can finish the job underneath later on.

And we're doing the same thing with accessory brackets and boltons.

We're transferring from the old motor to the new one. We got some detail paints from Eastwood like this Aluma blast that make aluminum brackets look like they're brand new

and we got some detail gray here for parts that need a natural steel finish.

Hey, while everything's drying, I want you to check out these parts that we'll need to fit our taller and wider. 351 into that engine compartment. Now, what we're using are frame and engine mounts from a 66 to 70 Mustang. Now, the frame mounts have been discontinued for some time. So we had our friends at John's Mustang send us these used ones. Now, what they're gonna do is they're gonna raise the engine up just a little bit to give us more clearance between the heads and the shock towers. Of course, they're also gonna give us some more header clearance as well. Now, the rubber motor mounts, well, you can pick those up at the local parts store.

Speaking of headers, we chose the shorty headers from JB A.

They've got a 38 inch flange for a leak proof seal and the tubing is extra thick, 14 gauge with a ceramic metallic finish for long life. Now, because of the short primary tubes, shorties tend to exaggerate firing pulses. But this patented fire cone in here smooths it out. Plus

to help you boost your bottom end torque.

Well, we got the front of this engine looking pretty good. Now, before we add this bottom crank pulley, we need to use this 78 inch aluminum spacer that we got from Ford Motor sports. Now, what it's gonna do is help us maintain the proper belt alignment on our serpentine drive system.

Oh, and don't forget,

also gonna need to add longer boats at least grade five and give them a dab of thread lock before you tighten them down.

Now, if you're gonna be mounting an AC compressor like we will later on, you also need one of these special mounting brackets from Ford Motor sports. Again, that's because that taller deck height on the 351

a

high performance engine needs a high performance ignition to keep it lit at wide open throttle.

Now, to get the job done, we chose Mallory's util light distributor, their pro master coil pro side winder wires and their high fire six control box. We chose this system because, well, the distributors electronic which means no adjusting points and it has vacuum advanced for better street mileage. This box here has a pair of rev limiters, a couple of RPM control switches and

several timing retard modes just in case we want a bolt on a super charger or nitrous system. And that's a lot of options to choose from. Now, the coil cranks out about 25% more voltage than the stalker does. And these eight millimeter wires are more than capable of carrying that load.

The spiral wound core eliminates any radio interference and ignition crossfire.

We're gonna go ahead and mount the distributor. Now we'll find a spot for the box and the coil once the engines in.

Well, here's something else. We won't be ready for till the engines in place. But I had to show it to you anyway. It's Holly's latest street car. Now, there used to be quite a big jump in vacuum, secondary carbs from 600 to 750 CFM. But this one is 650 plus it has dual in the bowls for a real racy look and electric choke. And

it chuck that chrome like finish makes it look like a real showpiece. I like it

now, speaking of finish. Well, we're about done with today's project, but I'll tell you what, next time we're gonna drop the engine in and back it up with a trim five speed overdrive transmission. Yeah, with any luck you'll get to hear it run too, but don't run away now, more horsepower TV. S ahead.

These are hard hitting cars, wheel standing cars if we can get good air and have the track prepared. Right.

It'll be exciting. You bet it will. It's horsepower history as we take you to Norwalk where we'll focus on a red hot heads up. Shoot out among the nation's top stock contenders. It's our race of the week coming up next

horsepower TV. S race of the week is brought to you by Wyotech. The nation's premier technical training school.

Hey, ready for a little racing history.

Well, here's what happens when some of the top muscle cars in the country gather for the world's first heads up, top stock shootout.

It's not a bracket deal. You're not, you're not spending money to go, you know, to, to hit the brakes on the other end and so forth. So it really gives everybody an opportunity to, to, to show what they've got.

It makes the hair on your arms stand up. I mean, it's a thrill.

Stock is another name for factory made muscle.

It reminds us of a time when performance cars came off the assembly line ready to race.

Those marvelous muscle cars shaped the backbone of American drag racing back in the sixties

today, you'll find many of those great cars still competing in I hr A S stock eliminator class,

usually a ho hum bracket class but not this weekend at the mo

Parts World Nationals in Norwalk.

Some of these are N hr E cars I hr E cars

and they're uh they're anxious to have a platform, they're anxious to have a stage with which to perform on

and we hope to give them that nothing's been done like this in stock eliminator. But we know

in

over 30 years since the early sixties when these cars were,

were what it was about. And this is what this is, this is grass roots of,

of, of what everything else is evolved into today.

That's Mike Keener, the instigator of this historic shootout who also races in this 69 Camaro.

Mike is responsible for gathering some of the fastest top stalkers in the nation

and creating a level playing field for heads up competition.

We created a weight break that we felt was common ground.

It fits in between two classes where

the A cars, for example, which are the fastest of the breeding stock would add a little weight

and the B cars would be able to remove a little weight and the C cars to remove even more weight. And so that we could all meet and converge at 8.25 pounds per factored horsepower rating

and compete on a level playing field sticks and automatics. Combined.

A Ford guy captured the top qualifying spot with a 1038 at

100

28 miles an hour in a 69 4, 28 Cobra Jet.

I've raced heads up before it but only in class eliminations.

But in a deal like this with a whole bunch of different kinds of cars. It's, it's really fun. I felt like I won the race yesterday,

but we'll have to see you today.

The young man who may lead the boat

bar charge this weekend is NH

Rab stock record holder, Jim Alois

who qualified second. It is Max Wedge 63 Belvedere. You got nine inch tires on it.

Uh, and we pull some pretty serious 60 foots. I mean, it pulls the wheels pretty good. I mean, it's, it'll, it'll pull a hell of a wheel stand. It really well. I mean, it's, it's, it's something to see these cars leave and, and you're doing it on a stock suspension. So it's pretty incredible.

So the stage is set for an incredible history making top stock shootout.

These are hard hitting cars, wheel standing cars, if we can get good air and have the track prepared. Right.

It'll be exciting.

Rusty Hall's 68 pony put Mike out in round one of eliminations

while

Eloise ran the low et of the round with an easy win over the 69 super beat.

Later in round two, Waldo went down to Matt Morgan's Mustang by less than 100.

Then Eloise

and this solo pass runs top et of the weekend with the 1037. But in round three, Alport 99 Firebird pulls off an upset win taking Joe's more

power out of the running

finally under the lights at Norwalk Raceway Park, the final race

and the momentous match up of modern muscle against the

Iron

and Court

L One Bird takes the win with a 1042 at 100 20 miles an hour.

These fires

are just great

cars. They were able to hook up when some of the other guys weren't able to. And, uh,

that was the, uh, the best part of it. And of course these fuel injected, uh,

computer cars are pretty consistent. Uh, that's kind of fun,

a

fun weekend

and it just may be the beginning of a new chapter of old time drag racing here in America. There needs to be heads up cars out there showing the public what we're really capable of and, and how fantastic these carss can really run with parts that were built 30 years ago.

Meanwhile, here are the winners of pro outlaw and sportsman competition in the I hr A Bear

parts World National.

It's horsepower in a bottle

and the cheapest power you can bolt on. Chuck takes a look at Nitrous next on Quick Tech.

Oh,

hey, welcome back. You know, over the years, nitrous oxide has been called a lot of things.

Giggle gas whiff and spray are just a few of them,

but it doesn't matter what you call it. The real bottom line is that nitrous is one of the most efficient and least expensive ways to make more horsepower.

Nitrous oxide is comprised of two parts of nitrogen and one part oxygen. Now, during the combustion process, it's heated and the extra oxygen is released.

Now, in typical plate systems like this, one nitrous is introduced through one bar and at the same time, additional fuel is introduced through the other bar. Now, with that extra fuel and oxygen, you're gonna have higher cylinder pressures

and more power.

Another benefit is the cooling effect of the nitrous as it goes from a liquid to a gas whenever it's released into the atmosphere.

Now, that's gonna give you a lot cooler and denser intake charge.

And as a general rule of thumb, for every 10 degrees of cooling, you're gonna get about 1% more horsepower. Now, as an example, a 70 degree drop on a 350 horse engine is gonna give you about 25 more horsepower just on the cooling effect alone.

You might have heard that nitrous will burn a motor down.

Not true.

In fact, most engine damage is caused by two li a

mixture or not enough fuel to go with the nitrous. Now, if you're running mechanical pump like this one here, you wanna make sure that it'll be capable of maintaining at least seven P si

otherwise in an electric pump like this one from Holly is not a bad idea.

Of course, higher cylinder pressures mean you'll need a hotter spark to light it off. In other words, the old points type distributor probably isn't gonna cut it anymore. And what we suggest is a high output electronic system like this one from Mallory.

Well, Nitrous has become such a popular power enhancer that has created its own industry.

All kinds of kits are available from this basic under car plate system

to this emission legal upgrade for late model injected cars.

Hey, they even have hits so you can plumb your own intake manifold and add multiple stages. Plus if you're weight conscious, just check out this carbon fiber bottle.

Now, even with Nitrous, the old saying holds true speed costs money.

How fast do you wanna go?

Well, don't you go away? We've got hot parts right after this

horsepower TV S hot parts. A close up. Look at the latest in high performance hardware.

Hey, since we've been in a Mustang mode today, here's something for you guys with 79 to 93 Fox bodies. These track lift bars from chassis engineering boat right up to replace your lower control arms and you harness more horsepower. This spring pocket here is engineered to work with your stock spring

and they include a mount here for the original sway bar. The price just might sway you too at about 100 $60.

Hey, if you wanna get more air into your engine, sometimes you just have to go to the extreme. And that's just what K and N has named their new line of high flow air filter lids. Now, they use the same washable filtering media that K and N has become famous for. Plus they allow a straight shot of air right into the carburetor. Now, the metal lids are available in chrome red, blue and black. So now you can be color coordinate while you're making more power prices for the lid start at about 50 bucks.

So we can't totally forget you Chevy guys this weekend. In fact, if you got a late model LT one Camaro or Firebird, this fluid damper will help reduce engine vibrations and harmonics to give you more horsepower and longer engine life. Now it comes already greed for your stock serpentine drive belt. It boats right up to replace the original.

Now, if you bolt right out to get one though, better carry about $370. Well, you better stick close to your TV next week because we got a heck of a show lined up, check this out.

It's test and two time for our Bel air bracket racer. We'll take you to the track and show you some tuning tips for better ETS.

We'll handle the cooling and fuel for our chassis build up along with headers, exhaust and more. Finally, horsepower as a music video you'll see and hear for yourself.

One.

And remember I performance fun is what this show is all about.

Hey, man, you better be ready to go to work. The uh hard part is still ahead of us. I guess you got that right. But at least we got some clean parts to deal with next time and we won't get our hands dirty. Yeah, I'm not too dirty.

Too

bad. This

thing is looking good

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