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OH Shiite!!!!!!!

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#1 ·
well as most of you know I baught steve4570's old car last year and have been working on getting a motor and tranny in it and to the track, well I changed so much stuff around and have been unemployed for a while now its taken this long to get it going, long story short I drove it around yesterday getting on it and checking all the stuff like stall, trans brake, shifting and all is good, I ran 10 gallons of fuel through it while testing taking a few breaks inbetween, checking the fluids adjusting timing and carb, while getting ready to put it up for the night I though I would make a hard pass down the road, I don't have any neighbors so its no problem and my road is a dead end about 1.5 miles long, so I put on the trans brake and let it eat man that 429 runs as good as my 455 Buick did running it through all the gears then I hit the brakes pretty hard to stop and the pedal made a loud POP and went to the floor good thing my road is a dead end and 1.5 miles long because I had no brakes and I was going 100 or better, got it stopped and opened the hood to take a look and the master cyl is hanging off the block that bolts to the firewall, it snapped the studs off, I got it back home and took it apart and the studs that hold the M/C to the aluminum block that bolts to the friewall were broke off clean, well as y'all know I'm new to the ford/fox bodies so I don't know the name of that block but if anybody has these on there fox bodied cars maybe you should check the studs, I put grade 8 bolts back in it and all is ok, but I'm really impressed in how good my little 429 runs, I can't wait to get it to the track.
 
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#5 ·
thanks guys, a video would have been funny as shiite, arms reaching, foot pushing, gear grabbin, I'm glad the C-6 down shifts and I had plenty of road, you know steve just built that car about 2 to 3 years ago so that brake block should not have studs that failed??? what do y'all think???
 
#6 ·
Definitely should not have failied. I'm thinking there was some other contributing factor.

It sounds like this is a manual master cylinder conversion. Is this the case? If so I may have an answer for you. Or at least an idea as to why.

One stud breaking? Yeah...OK that is a fluke. But both? Something else was going on there. Or at least I think so.
 
#8 ·
Sure glad you are ok and got her stopped. my manual brake block came with grade 3 or 5 bolts. I also put grade 8 bolts in mine get a vid of your car running and send it to me I been dying to hear that thing. I think we are going to come down to the beach house this summer and stay a couple of weeks. I will have to load my car up and we go racing some where
 
#9 ·
yes bring her down to the beach house??? it sounds good for a 429 I guess :confused: I put a erson soild roller in it with a dommy on a old offy intake and man it f@#kin runs strong I can't get over it, I bet it will run 6.70's or 6.80's in that bird and its just a bunch of old used parts :D
 
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