Strange chain of events.

[Maxtor]

Two threads.
1. Gun control
2. Quarter mile times

My wife came back from taking her biannual cwp class, and told me that the instructor is now giving classes on Utah cwp. which now covers 35 states. Since we are going cross Country, I signed up and took the class. While there, I was sitting next to a couple who have a business and need their computers networked. I told them that was what I did before retiring. I told them that I would call the guy who took my place when I retired. This guy also bought my 1973 F250 pickup which is the one I put the 428 engine in and posi 3.73 differential which I wrote about in the quarter mile times thread. He said that it was running great, but needed to sell it to get some money for a project that they are doing.

If I had not read the thread, gun control, I would not have known about the Utah cwp covering so many states.
I replied to the thread quarter mile times with the times of my old truck that I had built a 428 engine for.

So, if I had not read the thread about gun control, I would not have taken the class, met the couple that needed networking, called my friend, nor found out about the 73 Ford being for sale, which was in the quarter mile thread...
Strange...

 

[02SilverStroke]

It can be a "small" world.

 

[Crumm]

Are you going to buy the 73'?

 

[Maxtor]

I should, but I have to many vehicles now.. We have six, for two people. I also installed a painless wiring kit, and because he was a friend, I sold it to him for $4,500 back in 2000. The engine is worth that. He is not a car or truck person, so he does not realize how good that truck is. When I sold it to him, the engine, trans (C-6) differential and wiring were all new or rebuilt. I never install a old starter with a new engine with headers , so the starter was probably new also. It is not fun replacing a starter with FE headers.
As far as I know, that engine is the only 9:1 compression 428 around. I had the trw pistons milled to my specifications to reduce the compression so as to use regular fuel. Most shops just cut the piston tops, but this causes a problem by cutting to close to the ring lands, and does not promote good fuel quenching.
Without head or piston alterations, 428 engines normally are around 10.25:1 which needs 91 octane or better to run without detonation with steel heads.