55 E/G – New old ride

Tested last week, car is running good except need to make chassis adjustments. Working on a more streetable engine and will convert the car from race car to both race and street like the Mustang.

Frank….Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Engine in the 55 now is a 587 cu. in. BB that dyno’d at 934 hp with one carburetor. We haven’t got a good ET yet, at the Dover race we couldn’t stop the street tires from spinning but ran a 11.2 at 133 mph. Came back home, put on the slicks, changed the rear ratio and than the transmission started to slip real bad, ran several mid 6’s on the 1/8 mile with it slipping. Changed the transmission from the PG to the turbo 440. That fixed the slipping problem but now the chassis needs some adjustment (pre-load on the ladder bar suspension). Wish I had an in car camera for the first time I let go the transbrake button with the turbo 400, surprised me and didn’t expect that hard of a launch.
We are putting together the street engine now but would like to get a good test run with the 587 before we take it out. The engine has developed a blow by problem and that may make my decision to pull it before the next test, but still undecided as of now.

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Frank……Only one 572 engine and that’s the one in the Mustang now. The 587, an all out 14.5/1 compression race engine went into the Mustang when we started all this. It was the only engine left from our race days. All our race stuff was stolen except for the 587 and it survived because it was in a friends air conditioned business being stored. When we came back to Lakeland we were starting the engine up on the shop floor every week until we found a place to put it. That’s when we found the Mustang, a place to put the motor. We were driving it to car shows on race fuel till the race fuel got up to $13/gallon. Than we got the low compression 572 so we could use pump gas in the Mustang.
The 587 became a backup motor for the Mustang till we got the 55 Chevy. Than the 587 being the only engine not in a vehicle went to the 55 and that became the new home for the 587. Since we want to drive the 55 on the street we needed an engine that will use pump gas. We have switched both cars over to E85 pump fuel but there are not that many stations that carry the E85. So our next plan was get an engine that will run on pump gas (91 octane) that fuel is available all over. The new engine is a lower compression 10.25/1 and that’s the new engine we are putting together now.