Hot Rod Reverend and the 1955 Ford Fairlane at the 2022 Y Block Shootout!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- During the 2022 Y Block Nationals at Dragway 42 (and Fast Fords) the 1955 Ford Fairlane performed very well in response to a few recent upgrades. We even made it to the Finals!
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God bless 🙏❤️
By the way I've been watching from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺, I too have a y block in my 56 customline, your videos have been my reference in my build, thankyou for your advice, god bless once again.
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What a cool event. Beautiful stance on car. 💯
The Fairlane running great! Looks like a cool event
Thank you for the bold and clear presentation of the one and only true Gospel. And the same for the music.
Perfect Dan!
That looks like a fun event!
It’s awesome… in 2023 it will be on Friday and Saturday with the test and tune on Thursday
Thank you for this Padre. ❤
You need one of those Jon Kasse Y- block 600 horsepower engines. One of the very best Ford engine builders
Very nice car
Thank you for the compliment… a Kaase engine would be out of my league. I don’t know if I could handle it, would probably wrap the car around a pole somewhere! LOL
@@HotRodReverend I believe he can get 900 Horsepower out of them y blocks. Beautiful Car fast enough as is.
Amen!! Cool. Great message, great looking car. In 67 I bought a 57 ford 300 and put a 59 Mercury motor, l don't know what size it was, but it ran like crazy. On Friday nites my car was almost always in our hi school finals. We ran against other hi school racing teams. The engine cost me only $150 at a salvage yard and my bros. And l pulled it, put it in 57 ford and maintained. The motor looked alot like a 292, we never told anyone what car it came out of. It was a tank! My lil ford weight was only 3200 lbs. So you can imagine how fast it was. Jesus is Lord.
It was at least a 312, but could have been a 430.
Great channel. I’m a Ford fan and love the old stuff! Flattys and Y blocks.
Thank you!
Is that a 312 or a 292? I have a '57 with 3.55s and a 2v 292 and a 3 speed and was wondering how powerful it will feel when i finish fixing it up.
Just a 292, stock stroke but it has been bored .060 over so it’s a 301 c.i. really. It does have ECZ-G heads but the compression could be better. Composition head gaskets were used (thicker than stock in the 50’s) and the heads were not shaved that much. The E4 gives it a little kick but we could do better if I installed better valve springs. See my website HotRodReverend.com/blog for my 312 build tho. That will be a 292 block with a 312 crank.
You have a book ? Great video, thanks 🙏
If you are referring to a Y Block book or a book on restoration, not as of yet - but if you want a free race program I can send you one. Email me at dan.jessup@hotrodreverend.com.
So what y block do you run? The reason I ask is that in the mid sixty’s I raced a 1955 Ford just mile yours, it weighed 3460 and I ran in the c / mp class. With a 312 + .060 and a 500 cfm 2 brl. Rochester carb the best on that combo was a 15:05 at 97 mph o yes a Ford top loader 4 speed. All the best George Reed
16:00, could not break into the 15’s that weekend - too much tire spin and wheel hop with that 3 speed BW259
Love the car! Hopefully we can attend next year, or the year after thst. Working on a '55 Mercury. Any idea how to remove the steering column?
If you are trying to just remove the column tube and not the whole works, you should be able to remove the steering wheel, remove the plate that secures the tube to the dash, remove the two piece plate that is a the floor board with the seal, remove the linkage at the bottom of the tube, and then loosen the clamp that secures the tube (and shifter shaft) to the steering gear box. Do you have a 55 Mercury shop manual? Usually this procedure is covered well in that book.
@@HotRodReverend I'm trying to remove the entire column, everything as a unit. I do have the manual. All it says is, remove steering column...lol
I've got the clamp loose that holds it to the dash, the wires from the junction block, and removed the band clamp at the gearbox. The column will move about an inch, then just stops. I was under the hood, with a 3' pry bar, where the column, and gearbox connect, and had someone pulling on the steering wheel as I'm prying. And it just won't budge. I used a hammer and screwdriver to open the slot, and still nothing.
@@HotRodReverend Also I did remove both of the cover plates at the fire wall.
@@mercuryrising9390 "pulling on the steering wheel..." that is your issue. The nut that holds the steering wheel to the steering shaft needs to be removed - your steering shaft will not come out of the steering gear box. The steering column will come out but the long steering shaft will have to stay in place because the worm gear is pressed onto the shaft and remains in the box against the sector gear.
@@HotRodReverend I really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to help me with this. Under the horn center cap, there isn't a nut. There is a smooth shaft in the middle (not threaded or tapped), and a tapped hole on either side. The tapped holes are different sizes, one side is quarter 20 I believe. The other is undetermined, but smaller. The manual says to remove the steering wheel, remove the horn center cap, and use tool 3600-D to remove steering wheel.
Question about the car... It looks like you have a 1956 steering column and steering wheel in a '55 body. Is that right? Did it all bolt up or was there some fabrication required? I strongly dislike driving '55 Fords because of the column and wheel. I had one '55 and several '56s. The '56 Fords were pleasant to drive.
Yep, I’m with you. I’ve owned the car since I was 16 (now 50 years old). When I put it all back together I did indeed use a 56 column and wheel. It is pretty much a straight bolt in. The only thing that I need to modify is the sheet metal channel that hides the wiring run for the turn signal. As you know, the 56 dash sits a little different.
@@HotRodReverend Yeah, the '56 dash is nice too. Thanks for the reply.
Do you have some kind of "POSI" rear end ? Which I think you probably do . Did it effect your gas milage . I'm thinking about it for my 55 RANCH WAGON ... Thx
Unfortunately no, the rear is original to the model year but I did install the optional 3.78 ratio. I am sure that a posi rear would help launch!
Earlier this morning I was watching You Tube. They showed a 55 Crown Vic black and white totally off frame restored owned by a man that was an Ex. Policeman who was 80 years old. During the interview he used God’s name in Vain. I wrote a comment that I hoped lightning wouldn’t strike when those bad words came out of his mouth and that I would pray for him and also that I had just recently sold an identical car to a man in Rome, Ga. Would you please pray for him also. I am 78 years young myself and for years I was into Drag Racing Corvettes and Camaro’s. Back in January, 1968 I was racing a 67 Corvette Coupe that was the only car I owned for my family which included my wife and little girl. I drove the Corvette to Warner Robbins Drag Strip which was about 50 miles from where I lived in Americus, Ga. I carried my slicks behind my seats, put them on, got under the Vette and uncapped my Jardine Hedders and with a totally stock engine which was a 427/435 horsepower turned 11.62 and 11.65. I had also changed my rear end gears from a factory 4:11 to a 4:56. One good advantage I had was I only weighed 130 pounds at 6 feet tall at 22 years old. Today I am 90 pounds heavier. Years later I bought Don Young’s 61 Vette that ran in the high 9’s at 140 mph.
For you readers Don was the BEST BRACKET RACER who ever lived. He sold me his Vette because his wife was going to have a baby. Later I wished he had not sold it to me because he built an Econo Racer and was killed at Bristol,Tenn. when his lightweight Dragster went off the track and the metal signs got him. If he was still in that Corvette he would more than likely not been injured as he would have been protected by the car doors and roll cage. He was the National Champion in 1984 and on the day he was killed he was leading on polnts for a repeat. The racers of the following races gave their polnts to Dons widow so he could be the Champion again. I would personally like to shake their hands. Don Garlits has a big picture in his museum of Don Young, honoring him.
David Rampy who is now the most respected bracket racer was Dons best friend. Don taught David a lot about how to be so successful in racing. The first time I saw Don race was at Houston County Drag strip.There was a big time Bracket Race and I saw this truck with a Flatbed come in with a trailer attached and they had Don’s Corvette and David’s Chevy Nova. The track charged about 150 dollars to enter with over 100 cars entering the race. GUESS WHAT!!!! Don wound up beating David in the final. They came in together and took home about $10,000.00 Go to U-TUBE and type in ( David Rampy talks about Don Young )
Absolutely awesome love it and I love Y BLOCKS
And I love Jesus.
Send me your email so I can send you my testimony and some of my and my family’s music.
Probably best to leave me a message on my website, HotRodReverend.com… keeps out the spammers