yeah the cool thing is its still got the original 5.0 up front to hold the nose down and to power the electronics ac and stuff like that 5.0 generator sweet

 

So when he revs you here the big'un? Or can he rev both from the cab?

 

Nope, I want to keep the Pontiac 350 in it. I already bought everything to swap in the 200-4R (automatic overdrive)including transmission for $50. Thinking of using an intake with bosses for nitrous that I can machine for fuel injectors but haven't really given it too much thought yet.

Even without inspections you're still required to run all pollution control equipment as fitted from the factory, which in '73 was none. That didn't stop me from removing mine though, and if the swap was something you wanted to do I'd do it.

 

nah it just idles LOL thats enough to power everything

 

If that's true they certainly don't enforce it there. I've seen some crazy stuff on the road, plenty of those in the years for inspections that are blowing smoke darker than night and somehow get new tabs every year.

 

Id make it so I could at least rev it so if someone wanted to race I could rev the little one....then smoke'em with the big one.

 

On an official track/strip of course....no street racing...

 

I'm in the same boat with the truck swap but I'm commited. I have a build thread going on here If you decide to go this route in about a month I'll let you know what it takes to put an older body on our frame.

92 F250 frame and running gears, lifted 6 inches, rebuilt 351 and C6 trans


The body is going to be this solid 74 F100 ranger.

 

Sweet. Its mostly just the engine/block I would use. Everyone says the FE engines are old and hard to find stuff for, but I started reading up on them and there is actually a lot of aftermarket support for those engines.

Plus, a lot of the stuff ford was able to use on the 358 series engines (the successor to the FE series) was because of what aftermarket companies did with the FE engines and more so of what ford did themselves to those engines. From daily driving to nascar and NHRA, these things were beasts. Was just reading about the 427 CAMMER last night, fords answer to the 426 HEMI.