65 Barracuda Strip to Street/Strip build

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Headers complete and coils. That with a lot more took whole day - mounting new front skinnies, changing Dana rear fluid, terminating connections, etc. etc. etc. lol

Guys at shop did awesome job with locating and mounting coils. And Ev with the headers and hours of fitting, tacking, checking, fitting, tig'ing, etc.

Mocked up exhaust. Actually may have full range of steering with 25" front tires. Decided to dump exhaust with race mufflers behind front wheel well. Clearance issues and not wanting to cut into cross members. And not wanting to run inside rails (fuel and returns there ). It's gonna be loud. Lol

Monday we'll run last section of alt wire, weld exhaust, and complete fitting of return fuel line. Test all electrical, clean out fuel lines and .... see what we get. Woot !
 
Brads70 said:
Did you get the engine running yet?
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Yes! They texted me this video while we were driving home from the clinic (low quality because it was texted. But the sound is good lol )

Tomorrow is tune day and harness tie up. :)

I'll try get some video tomorrow or Friday.

 
Basic tune in. Alignment done. All little checks and tweets done. Dyno tomorrow and hopefully get him on the street for more tuning and the track this weekend !

He checked in a bit fat at 3400 with me in it. Probably deal with some weight reduction after Drag Week. Lol. Still all metal - hood, trunk lid, bumpers, etc.

Quick video I slammed together quick tonight from today's activities.

 
Thanks guys. Last few days chasing some FI gremlins. Losing crank trigger and cam sensor intermittently. Wierd dumps to 2 degree timing. Long to short - as usual with most electrical stuff sensitive to interference, grounding was crux. Harness needed some "modifications" .... looking better. Went in early this morning. Fingers crossed and knock wood - have handle on it. Some more checks Monday and dyno. Woot.
 
Another week of ironing out stuff ... but he's running strong! a few more days before we head west Thursday!

Couple videos



 
Been a while since an update lol. We literally had the car “done” a day before we left for Drag Week. Made our first pass on a track after Sunday Tech.

Best run we had was: 10.95 ET at 127mph with a 1.89 60”. So obviously the convertor wasn’t a good match. Trying to find “sweet spot” for street and strip needed more time we didn’t have so were conservative at first. Flashed just over 2k ... so now we have one installed that should flash a bit over 4K ... so once weather breaks, we’ll see how far we can get that 60” (thus ET) down where it should be.

But we finished Drag Week with no real issues. Quite way to do a shakedown for street and strip. Lol. Ate some alternators - spun em too high.

Video we threw together of Drag Week:

Final specs of the build. All this was done in about 8 months. Quite amazing. Shop was brilliant.

Wheels: front > Centerline Autodrag, 15X4, rear > Centerline Autodrag, 15x10, 4.75 BS
Tires: rear > MT ET Street Radial Pro P275/60R15, Front > MT radials
Rear End: Dana 60, 4.56 gears
Front End: Magnumforce (161050) Mopar Tubular K-Member Conversion w/rack & pinion
Front shocks: Viking 2-way adjustable
Rear Suspension: Cal Tracs (-1) mono leaf with Cal Trac shocks
Brake system: Wilwood brake system
Transmission: ATI PRO T400 TRANSMISSION w/ SFI supercase and transbrake. gearing ratio: 2.48 1st gear/1.48 2nd gear /1 3rd gear with GearVendors Over/Under Drive System

Engine size: 383 bored/stroked to 431 CI (4.25 x 3.375 to 4.28 x 3.75) designed for PUMP GAS, internally & externally balanced
Dyno: HP: 619 @ 6400rpm, TQ: 563 @ 5200
Heads: Trick Flow® PowerPort® 240 Cylinder Heads for Big Block Mopar TFS-6161T784-C00. 78 combustion/240-74 in-out, 2.19/1.76 in/out valve, .700 max lift
Camshaft: mechanical roller, Howards Cams - 721883-08. DURATION: 263/269 (in/ex) at 050, LIFT .675/.650, LSA 108 degrees
Pistons: Ross
Connecting Rods: H beam, Callies
Crankshaft: Scat 4340 crank
Rocker Arms: Harland rocker arms shaft set - Harland Sharp S70015KS HD
Pushrods: Smith Bros
Balancer - ATI
Lifters: Morel solid roller lifters
Oil pump: Milodon 21185 - Milodon Chrysler Dual Line External Oil System.
Oil pan: Milodon 31161 pan
Intake: Edelbrock Victor Intake Manifolds 2886
Coil set: MSD Blaster Coil 82658
Throttle body: F.A.S.T. Throttle Body 307603
Injectors: 65 lb injectors
Fuel injection ECM/System: F.A.S.T XFI 2.0 – 301007, 15-gallon Summit racing fuel cell
Fuel Pump/System: Magnafuel EFI fuel system. MP-4815 kit comes ProTuner 625(MP-4301) pump, plumbed with PTFE Teflon lines (leaves option to go to E85 someday …. If)
Electrical: Speedwire 14 relay controller and switches
Water Pump: Meziere remote water pump WP337S. 55gpm
Alternator: Mechman S Series 170 amp Racing alternator, now. (Lol ...we ate 4 other type alternators on Drag Week 2017)
Battery cut-off: Longacre 4-terminal HD switch
 
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Have the new alternator fitted. Just need to get a bit longer belt.
 
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