Does anyone make a bellhousing to fit a Barra to a c4?
rwbrooks50":2jl0mt92 said:Have you seen this Barra on ebay?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ford-4-0L-24V- ... 29&vxp=mtr
US Customs is the major issue.
Rick
Pete62SOHC":2268pizh said:Not necessarily relevant to my own build, but this is too cool not to share. This '65 Mustang belongs to a customer of mine in Australia. This car is fitted with a Ford Intech AU engine (same platform I'm building). The engine is a max-effort build, featuring such custom items as a billet crankshaft and custom dry sump oiling system. The turbo is a Precision Gen 2 Pro Mod 88mm model, and the engine runs on methanol. It's currently equipped with a Hughes Performance Powerglide transmission and a 9-inch rear axle featuring a 3.60 ratio. This car just recently got finished, and so far has managed to put 1,250 horsepower to the rear wheels as well as run a 7.85 E.T. at 176 MPH!
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gravelrash":miexcg90 said:the Quicktime bellhousing is actually the pick of the bellhousings.
Pete62SOHC":miexcg90 said:QuickTime bellhousing arrived today. This bell fits both the Intech AU and Barra families of engines, and adapts to a Reid Racing bolt pattern. This bell allows the use of a Powerglide or TH400 equipped with a Reid Racing transmission case, or a 4L60E with Hughes adapter featuring a Reid bolt pattern.
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64 200 ranchero":miexcg90 said:i bought this type of servo setup, i think i can adapt it somehow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSmRWhTQ ... re=related
xctasy":miexcg90 said:I'm all for innovation, but a word of caution.
I personally wouldn't ever use Servotronic accelerator cable actuation even for secondaries unless it is a factory set up. Too many issues over the recent Toyota/Lexus failsafe Nipondenso and American made equivalent electronic throttles have gone under the bridge. BMW's M5 first used a fully electronic set-up in 1986, and there were a spate of over centre throttle jambs at MIRA in the UK (by Wheels Magazine, at 145 mph in a 3.5 liter Bemmer), and documented failures elseware...this on a West German TUV approved set up, the great grannies of all conservative legislators.
When Ford made fly by wire standard on Explorers and Falcons in 2003, and on Toyota diesels in 2002, I realised that creating a vacum secondardary or fly by wire system was possible to take load of the accelerator pedal.
Use prudent judgement, but I wouldn't want to ever aid and abbet working with any servo system like that unless its got an armload of SAE degree engineers to help me out. You can pick up a smashed remote control plane when a servo fails, but there would need to be some subsidary failsafe measures before I'd ever use one of those on my tripower.
64 200 ranchero":g50ah0kc said:I know intech 4.0 falcons make about 220hp stock. Is that to the wheels or crank? How much power can the stock internals handle? I would use my nitrous setup on it.
Is there a way that I can have new holes drilled into the intech flexplate to use my stall converter?