[GTOGEORGE]

Fords SOHC engine was their best engine fir nitro racing in 1969 Mickey Thompson had the BADDEST NITRO CAR ………ibis 1969 grubby car won everything and even went the quickest of 6.97 at 201. That was when the block started to break, the hp level was getting past that 1,500hp level. After that race teams started to run the Boss but did have any luck with it (growing pains). It wasn’t until Ohio George put twin turbos on the Boss (dynoed around 1,600 hp it finally woke up, he was making as much power on gas as the Ford nitro cars! When pro stock started to take off the SOHC engine was used again. It wasn’t until the 80’s when Pro Stick went to 500 cubes when the Boss engine started to Dominate. OK enough Ford history on a Pontiac web site, all though Pontiac and Ford’s had a little in common but that was the old days……that’s when race cars were cool!


GTO George

[GTOGEORGE]

Since there seems to be talk about KRE's Dragster with the Billet Block on this thread did you guys know that Jeff runs Cast Aluminum heads on it......just a little FYI!


GTO George

[Tom Vaught]

Originally Posted by GTOGEORGE

Fords SOHC engine was their best engine fir nitro racing in 1969 Mickey Thompson had the BADDEST NITRO CAR ………ibis 1969 grubby car won everything and even went the quickest of 6.97 at 201. That was when the block started to break, the hp level was getting past that 1,500hp level. After that race teams started to run the Boss but did have any luck with it (growing pains). It wasn’t until Ohio George put twin turbos on the Boss (dynoed around 1,600 hp it finally woke up, he was making as much power on gas as the Ford nitro cars! When pro stock started to take off the SOHC engine was used again. It wasn’t until the 80’s when Pro Stick went to 500 cubes when the Boss engine started to Dominate. OK enough Ford history on a Pontiac web site, all though Pontiac and Ford’s had a little in common but that was the old days……that’s when race cars were cool!


GTO George

1) Danny Jones, Clay Smith's son-in-law built the Twin Turbo Engine and plumbing fir the car. With minor tuning the Turbo Boss 9 was faster than the other cars out there by a good margin.

2) "The Drag Strip Owners and the crowds like to hear the noise of open Zoomies and see the flames coming out as well as the noise.
The Track owners said leave the Turbo car at home and run the Zoomie Car."

(This is a direct quote from Danny Jones who worked about 100 feet from my desk on the Ford Proving Ground in Dearborn Michigan.) I worked with Danny for 7 years. So thanks for posting that history which you read in a magazine vs hearing the real story from Danny Jones. Danny was also the Ford Indy Car Tuning/Turbo Guy during those racing years. He stayed involved with Ford SVO even after he retired from Ford.

The real information from a Ford Guy about a Ford Engine.

Tom V.

[GTOGEORGE]

I already said it made as much HP as the Nitro Ford engine running on gas at the time. They also had to detune it around 400 hp to get it down the track!
Yes you are correct about Danny............ they had to fabricate almost everything on the engine....obviously! LOL!
The rest of your post (basically all of it is FLUFF)!JMO
BUT thanks for the post! LOL!
No problem about my info, I'm glad to provide accurate info!
I was a BIG ford guy from the late 60's to the mid 70's!
If we are going to continue with the Ford crap we should start a new thread.......this is about KRE's NEW billet block!


GTO George

[Tom Vaught]

Originally Posted by GTOGEORGE

I already said it made as much HP as the Nitro Ford engine running on gas at the time. They also had to detune it around 400 hp to get it down the track!
Yes you are correct about Danny............ they had to fabricate almost everything on the engine....obviously! LOL!

If we are going to continue with the Ford crap we should start a new thread.......this is about KRE's NEW billet block!

GTO George

Backtracking, are you George. You basically had the whole story backward.

Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62

George, you have that backwards: the Ford teams were forced to run the Boss 429s ( which had many problems running nitro) instead of tried and true SOHC 427. “Ohio George” Montgomery was still running “SOCK” engines until 1971. Kalitta, Snake and the Hawaiian were running “SOCK” engines through the 1970 season.

"No I’m correct, when the hp level in the nitro engines got over 1,500-1,600 hp level the block started to break that would be around 1970." GTO George

WRONG GEORGE

Thanks for all of the correct info posts by others.

Don't call Danny Jones, "Danny", George, you never worked with him,
you never met him in person, Danny Jones hated Bull Chit Artists like yourself
claiming to know him.

So people on the board, here is a perfect example of "Fluff" and then getting caught at posting BS and refusing to admit it.

I did negative toward you George. I posted truthful info.
You Lied, you got caught, everyone knows you got caught.
and so now you call me names again and want to go back to the original subject.

Made me smile though, all of the people who posted and proved you were wrong.

Tom V.

[GTOGEORGE]

Originally Posted by Tom Vaught

Backtracking, are you George. You basically had the whole story backward.



"No I’m correct, when the hp level in the nitro engines got over 1,500-1,600 hp level the block started to break that would be around 1970." GTO George

WRONG GEORGE

Thanks for all of the correct info posts by others.

Don't call Danny Jones, "Danny", George, you never worked with him,
you never met him in person, Danny Jones hated Bull Chit Artists like yourself
claiming to know him.

So people on the board, here is a perfect example of "Fluff" and then getting caught at posting BS and refusing to admit it.

I did negative toward you George. I posted truthful info.
You Lied, you got caught, everyone knows you got caught.
and so now you call me names again and want to go back to the original subject.

Made me smile though, all of the people who posted and proved you were wrong.

Tom V.

I did not call you anything........Take a pill.........my info was correct!


GTO George