Moving from bracket to Stock Eliminator

[F677]

Originally Posted by 1347

Devin,
You may be better off running that car in super stock with that engine, you can run the replacement aluminum head, and it will be fine with a 9" tire and a caltrac. Whether you run stock or super stock, Vern Buchanan would be the person to talk to about doing the carb.
Good luck with the project

It may be a better setup, but for now it's not the right time. If running divisional/national events works well for my family and I over the next couple years, be sure that I will build another bucket that will can go chasing ET records. This is my walk before I run entry to playing with you folks.

[Jim Caughlin]

Originally Posted by 1347

Devin,
You may be better off running that car in super stock with that engine, you can run the replacement aluminum head, and it will be fine with a 9" tire and a caltrac. Whether you run stock or super stock, Vern Buchanan would be the person to talk to about doing the carb.
Good luck with the project

The alum head deal looks good from the HP rating standpoint but what sucks is what is needed to make them SS legal. They come from the factory with too large of valves which means you have to remove all 16 seats and weld them up to match the smaller seat diameters, lots of money involved with the changes to make them legal. I am building a '64 Comet for SS (almost finished) and stayed with the iron heads for budget reasons.

Jim Caughlin
SS6019

[FireSale]

When I broke into racing I built a 68 302 for SS/GT using the AFR 1399 aluminum heads that are listed as legal in the book. It would cost a lot of cash to get the right size valves in those heads and there are only a few machine shops that will take the job on. I sold mine to Brian Thompson and run iron heads in bracket. Don't make that mistake.
On the subject of your combo being competitive heads up, take that with a grain of salt. Class racing is rather thin these days with the exception of a few big National events. Running under the index will move you up the ladder, but for the most part it's a bracket race of very nice cars. Just be reminded that you can't dial over your class index. A 12.99 index car can't dial 13.00.
Find Thompson, Seaburg and Biscay at Bremerton or Pacific. The best Ford builders and tuners around. Biscay is a Chevy/Bike guy, but he's fun.
Pacific Raceway: Bracket Kings This Friday-Saturday (money race)
Woodburn Raceway: D6 Bracket Finals first weekend in September.
I'll be around but my car is out for the season. Red 68 with white Shelby stripes and a real pissy oil leak.

[BRETV]

Built a SS/LA a couple years ago and contemplated the aluminum head but the cost and work to make them legal didn't make sense. We ran the cast iron.




Bret Velde
2003 ??/SA