Engine Building Part 1 – Power Principles

January 25th, 2012 Comments Off Posted in General, Motorcraft Gas Engine

Engine Building Part 1 – Power Principles
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Before you build the engine, you have to decide what you want in the engine.

It’s so easy for enthusiasts to get excited about horsepower numbers, rpm levels, and sound, while skipping some very key factors of a well-designed engine. Some build requests are realistic while others are not even close. And it’s actually just as important for the engine builder to clarify the needs of the customer, as a totally mismatched engine can easily be an embarrassment to the builder and to the driver/owner.

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EZ 5.0 Bolt-Ons – Horsepower Basics

January 5th, 2012 Comments Off Posted in General

EZ 5.0 Bolt-Ons – Horsepower Basics
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Old-school tricks and new-school testing shows solid power gains.

I’ll never forget my first fast (or so I thought at the time) car. It was an ‘87 GT with an E-cam and exhaust. It had 4.10 gears, a T5, five-lug conversion with Baer brakes–back then it felt like a rocket ship! Times sure have changed, and so has my version of fast.

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TCI Suspension Upgrade – Get A Handle On It!, Part 3

January 3rd, 2012 Comments Off Posted in General, Motorcraft Gas Engine

TCI Suspension Upgrade – Get A Handle On It!, Part 3
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We wrap up our Falcon’s suspension upgrade project with TCI’s bolt-in four-link rear setup.

Last month, we introduced you to Nick Licata and his ‘64 Falcon Futura that Total Cost Involved (TCI) has been using for R&D of new suspension products. We showed readers TCI’s new front coil spring based double A-arm suspension system in that story. This month, in Part 2 of our look at Nick’s Falcon, we’ll be focusing our cameras on TCI’s new Triangulated 4-Link rear suspension kit for the ‘60-’65 Falcon, ‘62-’65 Ranchero, and ‘62-’65 Comet.

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