Reply to "First time on a Dyno"

Mike Drew, have you dyno'd your car again and what are your mods? (including headers, exhaust)

>>>HAHAHAHAHA!!! Obviously Carter doesn't know me very well! My car has spent most of its life on jackstands (figuratively if not literally). It currently has no alternator, which means it has no water pump. I can start it, back it out of the garage and that's about it.

I will soon be installing a new alternator along with a flat firewall kit, and then I'll be running out of excuses. :>) I have a blown-out exhaust header-to-head gasket to replace, and the timing is probably out of whack. But once those issues are sorted, I'll be heading to a dyno facility to try to dial it in.

It's basically a .030 over 351C with TRW forged flat-top pistons, stainless valve and roller rocker-equipped open-chamber heads, Comp Cams 282H cam (I think that's the one--it's a pretty stout hydraulic cam from Comp Cams anyway), Ford Power Parts intake (sadly, purchased before they started making specific models for the Pantera which allow engine screen retention), topped with one of Larry Stock's custom Holley 700 double-pumper carbs. Exhaust is factory GT5 (often mistakenly referred to as GTS.)

This engine once generated 389 hp and 380 ft/lbs on an engine dyno, with an unknown ignition and unknown carb. So it made power once upon a time, but nothing earth-shattering.

Time will tell if my recent changes (also installed a new MSD ignition) will improve things any.

Cheers!

Mike