Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

I still use the et program Larry gave to us speed talkers years ago to dial my car. Once I played with it on the traction factor,torque multiplication factor and aero factors to match what car was running according to time slips on some test days from then all I had to do was was change weather fact...

No its actual 351w

I think the way we are going to go is stroke it good heads and get a cam from Mike.

Yep a driver and all I have been building for years are race gas sbc drag and circle track,Kinda what was thinking use cubic inches to meet his goals and since a set of good heads can be painted Ford blue they should pass the looks test.

Definitely need to determine what gears are in it. 2.75's was very common in these cars. If your ok with 300hp, the stock heads can be made to work ok with some porting. Much beyond that, you need an aftermarket head...or a shit ton of porting, bigger valves, etc. Not worth the effort and money at ...

Not sure on gear yet he is going to get me cruise rpm now at freeway speeds so I can figure gear he is 100 miles away.Current specs as I know them -351 Windsor,rebuilt 6000 miles ago before he bought car.Engine builder was well known Ford guy here but unfortunately he has passed.So at the moment I h...

With a sbc no problem but not sure if Windsor needs after market heads or just some clean up?I'm pretty sure cam and compression requirements will be similar or would restrictive Windsor heads need to have more aggressive cam specs?I do not want to get real aggressive cam wise due to power brakes va...

wallet is decent sized,I'm thinking he will never turn it over 4000 to 5000 rpm and to be honest stock it is rated at 138hp if I get to 300 at the crank he probably would be pretty well satisfied and be enough to scare him lol.If it will push him back in the seat some,sound decent and run on 93 it w...

First I'm a bowtie guy kinda new to the blue oval,my little brother has a very nice 73 he wants to upgrade wimp at the moment.Catch is parameters are car weighs 4000lb,a/c, power steering ,power brakes,stock converter etc.Of course he wants his cake and eat it to big power with nice manners cruising...

Not a lot you can do with OEM block at those power levels on dirt but rules are rules.Possibly splayed mains and partial fill with oil cooler since your on e85. It's more of "my budget" than rules...Or rules of the household trump the track rules :lol: Been there those household rules are...

Not a lot you can do with OEM block at those power levels on dirt but rules are rules.Possibly splayed mains and partial fill with oil cooler since your on e85.

Nothing to do with the sludge and probably is just picture but the main kind of looks like its fretting.And kind of curious about the higher than average iron content?

You said your replacing the lower intake so I would modify it to fit vortec heads,give them a little love and you have met your goal.

I have used the ct-108 in a 355 with 11 to1 ported 292 heads(ancient and likely worn out but same with all 3 cams) same everything but cams in a 3000lb malibu.Car has 5.13 gear 28x10 slicks,glide with 4500 stall. Engine uses old strip dominator with 800dp Holley pretty cheap old bracket beater. 1.Ca...

Milder cam,Fuel injection altho probably not your accel setup, Unless you are corner carving competivitaly iron heads are fine.Then drive and enjoy .