Thread: How to shorten a small block Ford.

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If you are around in late February go to Billetproof in Ocala. It was held at Don Garlits place for the first two years but has outgrown it, so they are now holding it at the place shown in the flyer below.

As for the heater hose outlets, not sure yet. I may run some hoses from there to a remote radiator and fan in the rear. This thing always ran warm because of my 8.5 inch chopped 32 radiator. If the bigger electric fan and shroud I will build doesn't do it I might have to go to that arrangement. But I like your ideas of capping these off.

Don

Don thanks for the info! It's nice when someone like you paves the way for others with like ideas. I miss my 289/302 mustang, and hope one day to build a new one. I feel the same way about my 460 venture. Hard to find Ford parts to go with modified setups! I guess the journey makes the end all the more sweet!

I guess so Steve, but man are Chevys a lot easier to play with! Ford loves to change things just for the sake of changing them and you are never sure what parts are going to work with other parts. When I was helping Don figure out the pulleys on his T bucket we kept air freighting different ones in because no one at Summit, Jegs or March could tell us exactly what would work, it was all trial and error. Then there is that 28 oz and 50 oz imbalance thing and 157 vs 164 tooth flywheels.

Could be worse I guess, I could be playing with Hemis.

Don