Thread: Update on my hot rod firetruck project

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I just posted an update on my project....and then realized it was in the new guy intro section....oops.

http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/sho...&threadid=1352

A 5 ton rod needs some serious grunt to move it down the road....so I went and got some serious grunt. The same serious grunt that is in the Blastolene Special

1,790 cubic inches of all aluminum, air cooled, over head roller cammed HEMI

BIG valve springs ....about the size of a coke can

here's a coke can

I was surfing the web and found some cool stuff on european tractor pulling sites (couldn't read anything though)

I found one that had the heads turned backwards (intake up top) and has three blowers (6-71s?)

This one is neater to me. They got rid of the big accessory drive/gear box thing up front. The motor could be a whole lot shorter this way. Oh yeah, this one has turbos.

Anybody with a machine shop want to cut me a deal on labor to work on an interesting project?

Does that seagrave have enough room under the hood for that motor,being aircooled you wont have to spend big bucks for a custom radiator. I seen some kind of fire truck at a local cruisein that someone installed a smallblock chevy in and it looked very tiny in that truck,that thing should definately fill up the motor compartment.

wow u have a project there looks like fun sure would like to hear 1 of them motors run !!! I knew it was possible to get a ford to squat down just didnt know it took 1700 cubic inches to do it