Some "Dime Rockets" for the 4TH!

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Fred Holdorf

goinbroke2,
I tried the '83 T-Bird V6 and ran out of money, (fixed income). Carb is 1.08 and if it had a manifold to go with it,maybe? Intake is a smog piece with three 3/4" tubes running thru the plenum for EGR use. They take up all the plenum. A switch to a '84 TBI (2BBL-not legal) manifold brought a .5 second improvment. 16.30 ET's at Bakersfield were my best and then Mark built the turbo Mustang! No cam blanks for this engine exsist. I'm too old to start over, so it became a "bracket car", with a junk yard 5.0L V8, instant 13.60's and goes rounds. Thanks for the thread, very enlighting, Fred

P.S. I have over 600 runs on the 6 cyl AOD trans (shift kit, small convertor) and 7.5" Equalok rear end (4.10 gears) without breakage. (1.90, 60ft's)

Back when Billy and I talked about that combo, we determined the carb was too small.
The cylinder heads looked killer though. I was going to classify those tubes as emission devices ,which are removable and then see if anyone missed them. I doubt it.
There are later model 232 V6s that look pretty good on paper.