Check out my buddy's T-Bolt Clone...............

This is my friend Randy Shaw's car from Lincoln Montana. For now, it has a 416" FE in it with some iron 390 Industrial heads I ported for him. We put this engine together for him to run until his 511" (I think) Blue Thunder headed FE is done.

He did the same thing with this that I did with my truck. Meaning, he built most, if not all of it himself from the ground up, including the headers.








Cool car indeed.

'Course, it ain't no "Banana", but we can't have everything.



Doug...

I love thunderbolts! Especially the tear drop hood scoop and screened off headlight doors for the intake. I want to put a teardrop hood scoop on my f100. That's the plan!

bb429power wrote:I love thunderbolts! Especially the tear drop hood scoop and screened off headlight doors for the intake. I want to put a teardrop hood scoop on my f100. That's the plan!

gimme a shout when you wanta teardrop I think I still have one hangin in the garage.....


Randy

the Coug wrote:

bb429power wrote:I love thunderbolts! Especially the tear drop hood scoop and screened off headlight doors for the intake. I want to put a teardrop hood scoop on my f100. That's the plan!

gimme a shout when you wanta teardrop I think I still have one hangin in the garage.....


Randy

Okay, I'll have to check with my dad. I'll be needing one soon but I don't need one yesterday or anything. What would you want for it? About...

okay, now THAT is cool. I am tired of seeing fox body cars. (yeah, I have one).

Kind of strange being that I was just talking about the new cobra jet and the old thunderbolt factory drag cars about an hour ago. And yeah, I'm tired of mustangs too but some look dang good. Mt uncle just brought his v6 2011 mustang over, one HELL of a nice car. Spun the tires easily, he said it had 305hp stock.

Me likey Doug,I still love the FE's,especially in a Thunderbolt clone.

yes a Thunderbolt clone with an FE.. just plan KOOL

Nice car what kind of wheels are those?

Very nice. I might be slightly biased but I love those cars!

whitefield wrote:Nice car what kind of wheels are those?

I don't know what they are, but they're pretty nice lookin' wheels.






Doug...

Very nice car Doug. I used to run FE's about 25 years ago. I loved those things. I just was not good enough to keep one together.

Very nice car, i might be a bit biased with the motor choice though....

I don't mind the FE's. They can be built to make good power. But, they're like buildin' a stinkin' Mopar. Expensive!







Doug...

are my eyes getting bad or are there four coils mounted on the firewall and no dizzy? If so.... Whats up with that setup?

That is a work of art. I love it.

bluef100fe wrote:are my eyes getting bad or are there four coils mounted on the firewall and no dizzy? If so.... Whats up with that setup?

No sir, your eyes are not bad. That's what they call an Electromotive Electronic Ignition. It's used in conjunction with a laptop, and is supposed to be a pretty hot unit. He has the old version of the same ignition on his Mustang II that I have in a few of my vids from last year, and when he gets up on the chip on the starting line, that thing throws 2 feet of flame out the collectors. The starting line guys said they just hate that car, 'cause they can feel the concussion from the exhaust.






Doug...

ThndrChkn wrote:

bluef100fe wrote:are my eyes getting bad or are there four coils mounted on the firewall and no dizzy? If so.... Whats up with that setup?

No sir, your eyes are not bad. That's what they call an Electromotive Electronic Ignition. It's used in conjunction with a laptop, and is supposed to be a pretty hot unit. He has the old version of the same ignition on his Mustang II that I have in a few of my vids from last year, and when he gets up on the chip on the starting line, that thing throws 2 feet of flame out the collectors. The starting line guys said they just hate that car, 'cause they can feel the concussion from the exhaust.






Doug...

Dang, why does it shoot a flame? The spark is that good or is it a flame thrower setup on the collectors?

Here's a vid from last year Justin:


One could roast a marshmellow or 2 in that there flame.




Doug...

I thought the exhaust was under the car at first. I wonder what causes it to do that, must be the excess fuel in the collectors burning off from hitting the rev limiter. It looks pretty cool.

SWEEEEEEET !!

Doug ,just a note ,the fuel pressure reg should not be mounted on the firewall as it needs to be mounted 6" ahead of the flexplate (NHRA 1.5)
Frank