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Hey, uh,
that's what I was gonna tell you.
Today on Blacktop Speed Shop,
we're kicking off a brand new project that's definitely got a need for some speed.
I didn't hit the gas or nothing.
I just turned the key.
We found a 63 year old diamond in the rough that has the potential to become the fastest car we've ever built.
We're gonna drop a brand new engine in today, but first we've got to see where it's starting from
on Blacktop Speed Shop.
I think it's gonna do 70 horsepower on the dyno
if we're lucky.
We'll say 50,
48,
55.
I'm giving it 55.
Let's see what this falcon can do.
Get going.
You
just roll into it.
Is that on the floor?
There we go, yeah,
that's it.
I forgot the Tobias flies for a second. I was like,
Oh wait,
yeah, yeah,
that was impressive they're brand new.
Yeah, that was pretty good.
This is our latest project,
1963 Ford Falcon Futura.
We wanted a car that gave us the chance to start with a solid base
but could be turned into the Ford you wish they built.
We knew this car wouldn't come with much horsepower,
but good thing that's an easy fix when you're starting this slow.
You know what really stands out to me is all the chrome being the future of package like this chrome trim, chrome on the door panels, chrome handles,
a little bit of pitting in the hood
right across the front, but obviously some wear and tear, uh, overall though, man,
she's a beautiful ride.
This thing
is a peach.
What size rims do you think we have here, man?
Well, I thought they were fifteens.
But they look a little smaller than that.
13 inch tires and wheels.
What's the interior look like? Bright red.
There's no way me and you're both gonna fit in this car,
dude. It still has
the how-to guide just hanging on the, uh,
heater control knobs about what to do for the heat.
It felt like I was gonna throw the door through the side of the car.
They closed nice.
That is
crazy.
What's that, a fire breathing 85 horse?
That is a furious 144 in line six
big block.
You think a big block would fit in there?
We have a welder.
It will fit.
I didn't hit the gas or nothing.
Even has
voltage regulator
on the radiator support
external starter solenoid still
on the inner fender
on this vehicle.
You know this is everybody's dream, right?
Those of you at home, this is everybody's dream. You start with a nice vehicle
and make it exactly what you want
from the word go.
Jason, blow the horn. Let's hear it.
Oh yeah,
what do you think, man? You ready to get started?
The first thing that needs to happen is we dyno this engine.
0, 47.2947,
79.5 pound feet. Who was the closest?
But it's Price is Right rules.
You went over.
That is close though.
That's good. That's pretty close. The good news is that is officially the lowest.
It is the lowest we've ever done before was 71.
This has been beaten by a Honda Civic,
yeah.
That's not good.
We gotta change that.
I'm just proud of it for making it through it.
Well, we officially have the worst dyno pool in history
down here in engine power.
We wanna do a couple of little tune things just to see if we can improve it at all.
Not very confident, but we're gonna see what happens.
So I guess one of the first things we can do, guys, is let's, let's pull the air cleaner,
let it breathe a little more, right?
Pop it off. It can't hurt.
Hey, it's got the high-speed zip ties on it, so you know it's official.
First thing we're gonna try getting some more air in.
Best thing you can do
to get air into something like this is.
Put a radius on it. Well,
this is something that we had just laying around. We've had it in the dyno room.
It
sort of fits.
Now, we made a little bit of a spacer ring out of some tape for the bottom,
and all it does is it speeds the air up, gets the air in smoother into the top.
Will it do something on this
type of thing that makes this type of power?
We're going to find out.
That's why we have a dinosa.
I love it.
It's like all the old school race cars with 8 individual stacks, except it's just 1 big one. Now it's gonna make 10 more horse.
It sounds more angry now than ever.
You can hear it. You can hear the difference,
right?
It's desperation that it wants to be cut off.
You hear it trying to fight.
Oh.
Oh,
you hear that?
That's,
that's at least 2 more horse right there 100%.
Oh my God.
All right,
all right,
so hey, let's go we don't wanna run no more.
I can hear it.
Oh.
Yeah,
baby.
Most definitely.
48.8,
you know that could be like a light breeze going in the engine as well.
It needs more power everywhere.
They could literally be a million different things, but we'll call it a win.
I love it.
I love it.
All right,
what next?
Exhaust or timing,
it's one of the two, right? At this point we don't. What about this, this air cleaner, so restrictive exhaust on this thing.
Let's let's do something about that right now.
Drop it off,
cut it,
get it out.
Hey,
that's what I was gonna tell you.
Is it leaking?
Oh,
it's pouring.
It's dumping it everywhere.
Yeah, it's pouring.
Well,
whoops,
should have cut the muffler.
Oh,
no.
Well, I guess we'll have to get another line.
Well, it's the, it's the dipstick tube.
Yeah, all right, we can fix it.
Hold on
up next.
Got it.
We try our best to unleash some ponies.
Big games,
big games, horsepower shark 5.
So after
my wonderful co-worker sawed through the dipstick tube,
we got it patched up.
Hey,
that's what I was gonna tell you.
We decided to lop the muffler off like we were in high school,
all the way up to the manifold.
Got it.
We still got our
air induction package on top of it as well stack,
so we're gonna
hope for another single horsepower out of it.
And if it makes another single horsepower,
I'm happy.
Oh wow wow,
it's a race car.
Like a
like a hobby stock.
Big games,
big game
50.1
Actually,
torque was pretty much the same 79, but it picked up power
horsepower 5.
Yeah,
uh, it's marginal,
but it's probably there.
Well,
today was an extreme success in my book, so we officially dinoed the Falcon.
We were able to make a little bit more horsepower with a little less weight unconventionally though,
right?
Right,
less fluid, less drag.
I, I, I wish you'd stop saying that.
That's a bold strategy. I don't know if I would put that out there,
but yeah,
I think this was good. This is like anything else,
right?
You have to start from somewhere.
Quite honestly, this ran good, did about what we thought it was going to be,
and
I didn't know if it was going to make more than our small engine go-kart, but it did.
The pole took about the same amount of time,
but as far as our mods,
again,
you're not going to
pick it up incrementally that much because the engine is small and it's going to struggle anyway,
but
For running good and getting and not spitting anything out aside from what was induced,
uh, it actually worked really, really well.
Knowing what's going in it,
you know, the engine we built for it. I'm, I'm just psyched to see this thing done now, you know.
I don't know if y'all are as excited as we are, but it's close to 10 times what we just showed today
that's fixing to go in this.
Thanks to y'all for building what we wanted,
and this is gonna be epic, man. I can't wait to get
even dirtier while you're still clean.
That's right. Well,
when this thing comes back, we're,
we're looking forward to this thing getting back on the roller
and, and making some noise. It's gonna be a different animal.
It's gonna be awesome, awesome.
Thank y'all so much,
man. This is great.
Well, we knew the dyno run wasn't gonna be good.
We did not know it was gonna be that bad. There's a couple ways to improve.
This is my favorite, but Brian has another idea.
Unfortunately we can't do that,
but
we can do this,
and this is our 363 Ford small block
that engine powers built for our Falcon build.
They run this on the dyno and it made over 550 horsepower,
may even been 570,
not 100% sure, but definite improvement
over the 47 that we're currently working with.
But
before we do anything,
we gotta get this out
and get it to the scrap yard.
Well, it's slipping off the jack.
Is that a good thing?
It's in the air now.
OK,
it's all you.
That, uh, high pressure transmission dipstick tube under there with that fancy tape on it.
I don't know why that's on there. Yeah,
why don't you
give us a little insight on that.
I was gonna say it's it's bleeding all over again
all right I think you can come on up top now man
we're pretty well
suspended.
Oh
White wall out
always.
Let me pull it over this way.
All right, go ahead.
Yeow little faith or however that saying goes.
Oh,
well,
I mean.
I got it.
Ready?
Yeah, we're just gonna go.
Yeah, I got it.
Alright,
let's see if we can swing it over here now.
It's we're just gonna have to lower it and
take it off the stand.
That
you scared it. That's disgusting. You've scared it.
That's just your glove isn't sealed very well,
hey.
It's out with the old and in with the new on our '63 Falcon. Give spring to me.
Well,
now that we got our engine and transmission out of our Ford Falcon,
obviously there's plenty of room in here for our small block Ford to fit in.
However,
we will have to get some V8 motor mounts so that the engine will sit high enough to fit.
If somebody's missing a wrench and you recognize this car,
we have one sitting on the frame right here. It says it's made in the USA.
What brand?
Craftsman 67 mil,
6 mil, 7 mil.
We don't have any Craftsman,
so
that definitely ain't.
Oh, that's so awesome.
That's a time capsule, right?
Now is the time for us to take the factory suspension out because it's a lot easier access to upper mounts, lower mounts, plus we don't have that big old engine in the way in the engine bay.
So let's go ahead and get started.
Hey, can you look there and tell me when I'm
on it?
That ain't it.
Yeah,
yeah,
so far, I mean, even the bushings,
they are dry rotted, but I mean they're not apart
if those are true 1963
bushings, how old are they?
You bark my hand and my fingers too.
hot.
I think Taco Bell uses that in their food. You think that's hot?
Nope,
can't make me do it's smoking because it's cold.
Cold smoke
I cold smoked cream cheese on my smoker.
Why?
Smoked cream cheese blocks.
Let's take a bet.
How long?
Until the
pliers slip and he sends his fist into the solid iron behind it.
Woo.
I have a dangerous weapon in my hands.
What do I do with it?
Just hold it.
No.
This way.
Excuse me,
pardon me,
sir.
I mean to,
mean to be in your way.
We're crossing pry bars here.
Nay
Just don't let it hit till I get out of the way.
My statement still stands. It starts falling. I'm not gonna be here when it hits the ground.
Me neither.
All right, let's handle this very carefully.
No,
I got the bomb.
You got it. I got it.
Oh, this is the scary part in my hand right here.
Let's just go ahead and let that pressure right on off of there.
I don't like them,
right?
Sure
Realistically there's a whole lot of pressure on that side of the spring.
How about this?
Tomorrow
we'll use a torch.
What puts it on there?
Uh, I can probably lower it back down now.
No,
uh oh, I put that box in there.
Yes.
Thank you.
Give spring to me.
Right.
It can dangle now. I can't stand under the car.
I'm gonna sing you
a song.
Do to do, Miss Walker.
Are you going in the engine bay or am I?
That's all I'm just putting it up here since you're over there doing nothing.
Excuse me, sir,
you're gonna have to move that down.
Oh,
there you go.
That's what I'm here for.
Who needs a hammer?
Well, you got a finger.
Good.
Good enough
This is gonna be awesome.
All right,
a lot better than what was in there.
Mhm.
Up next, that's a whole lot of motor for a small car.
We take this bird off life support and shove almost 600 horse under the hood.
All right, now you can let it down.
So we tried to install our 363 in our Ford Falcon.
However,
we run into some small issues. So
these are the factory 6 cylinder mounts right here.
So we had to switch and get a factory
V8 mount. So these cars came with a 260 at the time. You could get that as an option.
These are a lot longer,
uh, to reach the 6 cylinder.
In addition to that, we had to order some riser plates as well
because the engine sit way too deep
into the engine bay.
We also had to order low profile headers because even these small short tubes,
they still hit the shock tower. They're too wide this way, so we had to get some
block huggers
that kind of
come down a little faster, a little tighter of a bend.
And these also
shoot directly into the firewall.
So unless you want free heat
365 days a year,
you probably can't do that.
Obviously we've already installed our new suspension on the front. We went with a full coil over set up in the front with upper lower control arms.
We're using a factory style gearbox, but we're gonna have power steering.
I'm excited for that. I like power steering.
What do you say we try to put this back in here?
I wanna set it in there and just forget about it.
Yeah.
We can put the headers on and start it.
Let's see if we can
scratch crap out of it now.
I have faith in this.
You do. Mhm.
Then we'll scratch it.
Just let it go,
man.
Just drop it,
drop it.
It'll go till it won't.
Come my way a little bit,
yeah.
That's a whole lot of motor for a small car.
That's a huge motor.
I'll give that one to you. It was pretty good.
Think SpaceX could do this?
Sure,
not as fast as we can though.
Laying the engine right in the mount.
Are you lined up on your side or no?
Not really.
I got a little,
I am.
She's wanna dump mine.
Sure,
drop it. Mhm.
This side's closed.
I don't even gotta look.
It's a no looker.
It's in.
It's torque.
You might have to put that block under the front some.
Well, that ain't tall enough, no way,
I guess we could lower the car down some more
and put this block under the front of it.
How far can we go before the, uh, control arm's up?
Maybe 34 inches.
I mean feisty.
Can you
lift up on the engine just like maybe a pump or two?
All right,
now you can let it down.
All right, so we got the engines sit down in the mounts.
Uh,
everything's lining up great. However,
we do not have the bell housing attached with the transmission,
so the engines naturally wanting to fall backwards like this.
So we put some blocks up under the oil pan in the front to make sure the mid-drive doesn't overweight the front
and keep it front heavy.
So
now we just need to, uh, support the rear
and we can make sure everything's gonna line up like it needs to without the transmission and the bell housing being in.
It's a good idea right there.
Depends on who's talking.
Well, we finally got our engine installed in our Ford Falcon and man it looks awesome.
You know, we went from
50 horsepower
to 10 times that
just by dropping this in here.
This car already looked good to begin with,
but now I feel like adding this is just gonna kind of set it off. It's gonna make it drive better. It's gonna make it a lot more
bearable to deal with
day to day
driving it through traffic.
And with the ceramic coated long tubes that we got,
there's supposed to be a block hugger triwise style for clearance,
and we got low profile stacked injection for clearance
that with the painted engine bay.
The brushed aluminum look everywhere.
The stacked injection has brushed aluminum.
The header is gonna be shiny with the black DEI wrap.
All the red paint. It's gonna look pretty good,
dude. I can't wait.
I'm more excited now than ever.
It's all done, but the finishing.
I wanna just hear this thing run
in here
shaking the car
instead of
the 52 horsepower it had before,
you know, we really wanted to start this engine right now,
uh,
but you know,
we are waiting on our headers to come in.
Um,
and we got some other things to button up before we're able to actually,
you know,
to fire it off to hear it, but I'm with you, man.
I'm ready. I'm ready to hear it running.
You mean I can't just start an open valve?
You,
you could,
but it probably wouldn't run very long.
It's fine.
I'm excited.
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Hey, uh,
that's what I was gonna tell you.
Today on Blacktop Speed Shop,
we're kicking off a brand new project that's definitely got a need for some speed.
I didn't hit the gas or nothing.
I just turned the key.
We found a 63 year old diamond in the rough that has the potential to become the fastest car we've ever built.
We're gonna drop a brand new engine in today, but first we've got to see where it's starting from
on Blacktop Speed Shop.
I think it's gonna do 70 horsepower on the dyno
if we're lucky.
We'll say 50,
48,
55.
I'm giving it 55.
Let's see what this falcon can do.
Get going.
You
just roll into it.
Is that on the floor?
There we go, yeah,
that's it.
I forgot the Tobias flies for a second. I was like,
Oh wait,
yeah, yeah,
that was impressive they're brand new.
Yeah, that was pretty good.
This is our latest project,
1963 Ford Falcon Futura.
We wanted a car that gave us the chance to start with a solid base
but could be turned into the Ford you wish they built.
We knew this car wouldn't come with much horsepower,
but good thing that's an easy fix when you're starting this slow.
You know what really stands out to me is all the chrome being the future of package like this chrome trim, chrome on the door panels, chrome handles,
a little bit of pitting in the hood
right across the front, but obviously some wear and tear, uh, overall though, man,
she's a beautiful ride.
This thing
is a peach.
What size rims do you think we have here, man?
Well, I thought they were fifteens.
But they look a little smaller than that.
13 inch tires and wheels.
What's the interior look like? Bright red.
There's no way me and you're both gonna fit in this car,
dude. It still has
the how-to guide just hanging on the, uh,
heater control knobs about what to do for the heat.
It felt like I was gonna throw the door through the side of the car.
They closed nice.
That is
crazy.
What's that, a fire breathing 85 horse?
That is a furious 144 in line six
big block.
You think a big block would fit in there?
We have a welder.
It will fit.
I didn't hit the gas or nothing.
Even has
voltage regulator
on the radiator support
external starter solenoid still
on the inner fender
on this vehicle.
You know this is everybody's dream, right?
Those of you at home, this is everybody's dream. You start with a nice vehicle
and make it exactly what you want
from the word go.
Jason, blow the horn. Let's hear it.
Oh yeah,
what do you think, man? You ready to get started?
The first thing that needs to happen is we dyno this engine.
0, 47.2947,
79.5 pound feet. Who was the closest?
But it's Price is Right rules.
You went over.
That is close though.
That's good. That's pretty close. The good news is that is officially the lowest.
It is the lowest we've ever done before was 71.
This has been beaten by a Honda Civic,
yeah.
That's not good.
We gotta change that.
I'm just proud of it for making it through it.
Well, we officially have the worst dyno pool in history
down here in engine power.
We wanna do a couple of little tune things just to see if we can improve it at all.
Not very confident, but we're gonna see what happens.
So I guess one of the first things we can do, guys, is let's, let's pull the air cleaner,
let it breathe a little more, right?
Pop it off. It can't hurt.
Hey, it's got the high-speed zip ties on it, so you know it's official.
First thing we're gonna try getting some more air in.
Best thing you can do
to get air into something like this is.
Put a radius on it. Well,
this is something that we had just laying around. We've had it in the dyno room.
It
sort of fits.
Now, we made a little bit of a spacer ring out of some tape for the bottom,
and all it does is it speeds the air up, gets the air in smoother into the top.
Will it do something on this
type of thing that makes this type of power?
We're going to find out.
That's why we have a dinosa.
I love it.
It's like all the old school race cars with 8 individual stacks, except it's just 1 big one. Now it's gonna make 10 more horse.
It sounds more angry now than ever.
You can hear it. You can hear the difference,
right?
It's desperation that it wants to be cut off.
You hear it trying to fight.
Oh.
Oh,
you hear that?
That's,
that's at least 2 more horse right there 100%.
Oh my God.
All right,
all right,
so hey, let's go we don't wanna run no more.
I can hear it.
Oh.
Yeah,
baby.
Most definitely.
48.8,
you know that could be like a light breeze going in the engine as well.
It needs more power everywhere.
They could literally be a million different things, but we'll call it a win.
I love it.
I love it.
All right,
what next?
Exhaust or timing,
it's one of the two, right? At this point we don't. What about this, this air cleaner, so restrictive exhaust on this thing.
Let's let's do something about that right now.
Drop it off,
cut it,
get it out.
Hey,
that's what I was gonna tell you.
Is it leaking?
Oh,
it's pouring.
It's dumping it everywhere.
Yeah, it's pouring.
Well,
whoops,
should have cut the muffler.
Oh,
no.
Well, I guess we'll have to get another line.
Well, it's the, it's the dipstick tube.
Yeah, all right, we can fix it.
Hold on
up next.
Got it.
We try our best to unleash some ponies.
Big games,
big games, horsepower shark 5.
So after
my wonderful co-worker sawed through the dipstick tube,
we got it patched up.
Hey,
that's what I was gonna tell you.
We decided to lop the muffler off like we were in high school,
all the way up to the manifold.
Got it.
We still got our
air induction package on top of it as well stack,
so we're gonna
hope for another single horsepower out of it.
And if it makes another single horsepower,
I'm happy.
Oh wow wow,
it's a race car.
Like a
like a hobby stock.
Big games,
big game
50.1
Actually,
torque was pretty much the same 79, but it picked up power
horsepower 5.
Yeah,
uh, it's marginal,
but it's probably there.
Well,
today was an extreme success in my book, so we officially dinoed the Falcon.
We were able to make a little bit more horsepower with a little less weight unconventionally though,
right?
Right,
less fluid, less drag.
I, I, I wish you'd stop saying that.
That's a bold strategy. I don't know if I would put that out there,
but yeah,
I think this was good. This is like anything else,
right?
You have to start from somewhere.
Quite honestly, this ran good, did about what we thought it was going to be,
and
I didn't know if it was going to make more than our small engine go-kart, but it did.
The pole took about the same amount of time,
but as far as our mods,
again,
you're not going to
pick it up incrementally that much because the engine is small and it's going to struggle anyway,
but
For running good and getting and not spitting anything out aside from what was induced,
uh, it actually worked really, really well.
Knowing what's going in it,
you know, the engine we built for it. I'm, I'm just psyched to see this thing done now, you know.
I don't know if y'all are as excited as we are, but it's close to 10 times what we just showed today
that's fixing to go in this.
Thanks to y'all for building what we wanted,
and this is gonna be epic, man. I can't wait to get
even dirtier while you're still clean.
That's right. Well,
when this thing comes back, we're,
we're looking forward to this thing getting back on the roller
and, and making some noise. It's gonna be a different animal.
It's gonna be awesome, awesome.
Thank y'all so much,
man. This is great.
Well, we knew the dyno run wasn't gonna be good.
We did not know it was gonna be that bad. There's a couple ways to improve.
This is my favorite, but Brian has another idea.
Unfortunately we can't do that,
but
we can do this,
and this is our 363 Ford small block
that engine powers built for our Falcon build.
They run this on the dyno and it made over 550 horsepower,
may even been 570,
not 100% sure, but definite improvement
over the 47 that we're currently working with.
But
before we do anything,
we gotta get this out
and get it to the scrap yard.
Well, it's slipping off the jack.
Is that a good thing?
It's in the air now.
OK,
it's all you.
That, uh, high pressure transmission dipstick tube under there with that fancy tape on it.
I don't know why that's on there. Yeah,
why don't you
give us a little insight on that.
I was gonna say it's it's bleeding all over again
all right I think you can come on up top now man
we're pretty well
suspended.
Oh
White wall out
always.
Let me pull it over this way.
All right, go ahead.
Yeow little faith or however that saying goes.
Oh,
well,
I mean.
I got it.
Ready?
Yeah, we're just gonna go.
Yeah, I got it.
Alright,
let's see if we can swing it over here now.
It's we're just gonna have to lower it and
take it off the stand.
That
you scared it. That's disgusting. You've scared it.
That's just your glove isn't sealed very well,
hey.
It's out with the old and in with the new on our '63 Falcon. Give spring to me.
Well,
now that we got our engine and transmission out of our Ford Falcon,
obviously there's plenty of room in here for our small block Ford to fit in.
However,
we will have to get some V8 motor mounts so that the engine will sit high enough to fit.
If somebody's missing a wrench and you recognize this car,
we have one sitting on the frame right here. It says it's made in the USA.
What brand?
Craftsman 67 mil,
6 mil, 7 mil.
We don't have any Craftsman,
so
that definitely ain't.
Oh, that's so awesome.
That's a time capsule, right?
Now is the time for us to take the factory suspension out because it's a lot easier access to upper mounts, lower mounts, plus we don't have that big old engine in the way in the engine bay.
So let's go ahead and get started.
Hey, can you look there and tell me when I'm
on it?
That ain't it.
Yeah,
yeah,
so far, I mean, even the bushings,
they are dry rotted, but I mean they're not apart
if those are true 1963
bushings, how old are they?
You bark my hand and my fingers too.
hot.
I think Taco Bell uses that in their food. You think that's hot?
Nope,
can't make me do it's smoking because it's cold.
Cold smoke
I cold smoked cream cheese on my smoker.
Why?
Smoked cream cheese blocks.
Let's take a bet.
How long?
Until the
pliers slip and he sends his fist into the solid iron behind it.
Woo.
I have a dangerous weapon in my hands.
What do I do with it?
Just hold it.
No.
This way.
Excuse me,
pardon me,
sir.
I mean to,
mean to be in your way.
We're crossing pry bars here.
Nay
Just don't let it hit till I get out of the way.
My statement still stands. It starts falling. I'm not gonna be here when it hits the ground.
Me neither.
All right, let's handle this very carefully.
No,
I got the bomb.
You got it. I got it.
Oh, this is the scary part in my hand right here.
Let's just go ahead and let that pressure right on off of there.
I don't like them,
right?
Sure
Realistically there's a whole lot of pressure on that side of the spring.
How about this?
Tomorrow
we'll use a torch.
What puts it on there?
Uh, I can probably lower it back down now.
No,
uh oh, I put that box in there.
Yes.
Thank you.
Give spring to me.
Right.
It can dangle now. I can't stand under the car.
I'm gonna sing you
a song.
Do to do, Miss Walker.
Are you going in the engine bay or am I?
That's all I'm just putting it up here since you're over there doing nothing.
Excuse me, sir,
you're gonna have to move that down.
Oh,
there you go.
That's what I'm here for.
Who needs a hammer?
Well, you got a finger.
Good.
Good enough
This is gonna be awesome.
All right,
a lot better than what was in there.
Mhm.
Up next, that's a whole lot of motor for a small car.
We take this bird off life support and shove almost 600 horse under the hood.
All right, now you can let it down.
So we tried to install our 363 in our Ford Falcon.
However,
we run into some small issues. So
these are the factory 6 cylinder mounts right here.
So we had to switch and get a factory
V8 mount. So these cars came with a 260 at the time. You could get that as an option.
These are a lot longer,
uh, to reach the 6 cylinder.
In addition to that, we had to order some riser plates as well
because the engine sit way too deep
into the engine bay.
We also had to order low profile headers because even these small short tubes,
they still hit the shock tower. They're too wide this way, so we had to get some
block huggers
that kind of
come down a little faster, a little tighter of a bend.
And these also
shoot directly into the firewall.
So unless you want free heat
365 days a year,
you probably can't do that.
Obviously we've already installed our new suspension on the front. We went with a full coil over set up in the front with upper lower control arms.
We're using a factory style gearbox, but we're gonna have power steering.
I'm excited for that. I like power steering.
What do you say we try to put this back in here?
I wanna set it in there and just forget about it.
Yeah.
We can put the headers on and start it.
Let's see if we can
scratch crap out of it now.
I have faith in this.
You do. Mhm.
Then we'll scratch it.
Just let it go,
man.
Just drop it,
drop it.
It'll go till it won't.
Come my way a little bit,
yeah.
That's a whole lot of motor for a small car.
That's a huge motor.
I'll give that one to you. It was pretty good.
Think SpaceX could do this?
Sure,
not as fast as we can though.
Laying the engine right in the mount.
Are you lined up on your side or no?
Not really.
I got a little,
I am.
She's wanna dump mine.
Sure,
drop it. Mhm.
This side's closed.
I don't even gotta look.
It's a no looker.
It's in.
It's torque.
You might have to put that block under the front some.
Well, that ain't tall enough, no way,
I guess we could lower the car down some more
and put this block under the front of it.
How far can we go before the, uh, control arm's up?
Maybe 34 inches.
I mean feisty.
Can you
lift up on the engine just like maybe a pump or two?
All right,
now you can let it down.
All right, so we got the engines sit down in the mounts.
Uh,
everything's lining up great. However,
we do not have the bell housing attached with the transmission,
so the engines naturally wanting to fall backwards like this.
So we put some blocks up under the oil pan in the front to make sure the mid-drive doesn't overweight the front
and keep it front heavy.
So
now we just need to, uh, support the rear
and we can make sure everything's gonna line up like it needs to without the transmission and the bell housing being in.
It's a good idea right there.
Depends on who's talking.
Well, we finally got our engine installed in our Ford Falcon and man it looks awesome.
You know, we went from
50 horsepower
to 10 times that
just by dropping this in here.
This car already looked good to begin with,
but now I feel like adding this is just gonna kind of set it off. It's gonna make it drive better. It's gonna make it a lot more
bearable to deal with
day to day
driving it through traffic.
And with the ceramic coated long tubes that we got,
there's supposed to be a block hugger triwise style for clearance,
and we got low profile stacked injection for clearance
that with the painted engine bay.
The brushed aluminum look everywhere.
The stacked injection has brushed aluminum.
The header is gonna be shiny with the black DEI wrap.
All the red paint. It's gonna look pretty good,
dude. I can't wait.
I'm more excited now than ever.
It's all done, but the finishing.
I wanna just hear this thing run
in here
shaking the car
instead of
the 52 horsepower it had before,
you know, we really wanted to start this engine right now,
uh,
but you know,
we are waiting on our headers to come in.
Um,
and we got some other things to button up before we're able to actually,
you know,
to fire it off to hear it, but I'm with you, man.
I'm ready. I'm ready to hear it running.
You mean I can't just start an open valve?
You,
you could,
but it probably wouldn't run very long.
It's fine.
I'm excited.
