Features Falcons done right?

I was backing up the car with the door open and wrecked the door on my wood pile and broke the hinge. I have since welded the hinge back together and found a door but hoping to find another hinge

 

Great looking Falcon you have there. How does run with 11:1 c/r ?

 

post up a pic, I might have a loose one I can give you

 

Don’t know yet...been trying to get it wrapped up..between work and now COVID haven’t done anything to it..last thing that got done was getting the headers on it and plugs in..no easy feat..had to make some tools....gotta get a new fan, a spacer, and a trans cooler, bend all the lines for fuel and trans cooler, mount and hook up gauges, get shifter hooked up, and get u joints on and drive shaft installed..then gotta break it in...Gave Comp my parts list and my desire to have power from 1800-6000 rpm, told them I’d run premium fuel, and they did the cam..really compression is about 10.8:1..but close enough..should be a Snappy little motor..
Basically I used some some of the info below..and Alex knew his stuff..I opted for better heads..and aluminum will allow a little more CR..also have a 3 core aluminum radiator and hi flow aluminum water pump..I’m hopeful for 350 hp...should be a real fun little car..

http://mustangsandmore.com/ubb/BudgetSmallBlock.html

 

Saw this on FB Marketplace..nicely done little street car

 

Yeah that little mod of using the stock wheel arch from a pair of front fenders for the rear wheel arch is the only way to get any rubber under a Falcon... and so subtle compared to a custom (bondo) flare

 

1990-1992 Ford Ranger 8.8. 1/2" wider than stock.

Or, Explorer 8.8, narrowed to use two short-side axles.

Both were made by the hundreds of thousands, and are currently in yards.

 

what's the bolt pattern? seems to me it's the old chevy pattern? or is it the same as 60's

ford 5 lug?

 

Both the Ranger and Explorer are 5-on-4-1/2", same as Ford passenger car, of the US Falcon era.

 

Yeah that's killer. Wonder what front arches he grafted into the rear quarters?

 

I used Falcon front arches. I tightened the radius a bit, and mounted them lower back than the fronts.

 

I have two sets of those I've been holding onto for years. Need me another round body tudor

 

Anybody got a T Bolt hood they wanna part with for a 64-65 Falcon?

 

They are starting to creep up in price. Folks used up all of the Mustangs.

 

Very nice. So this allows larger rear wheels?
Digging the fuel filler cap mod too

 

The fuel filler is from an XJ Jag. The cap is not featured in the picture, as that primer was wet there.

This is one step to larger wheels.

The wheel houses in Falcons part company with the quarter panel at the wheel arch. From there, they move inward quite quickly.


That tends to interfere with a wider tire, especially so if lowered.

I added these.

 

Not so much a creep up, but a flying leap. I've bought nice, solid Falcons for a hundred bucks, but those days are long gone. The last round body I bought was $1100 and I thought it was a great deal.

 

Here in the land of Neverwinter, an unmolested round body can fetch $6-8K, and then you start your project.

 

Man I wish I could find a good 60-1 for that kind of money.
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1965 Falcon, my daughters daily driver in high school. 6 cylinder with a auto, lowered it a couple inches, smooth driving car. She’s off to college, and it’s just sits in the back yard. My son wants to make it into a gasser haha


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Looks like to nice a car to hack up into a gasser.

 

No on the Gasser..but a hot 302 and some cast grey Americans and that thing is money..

 

It’s money as it sits.


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Hell yeah it is. That car is finished. I would drive the wheels off of it, put them back on, and do it again.

 

It does look really nice....

 

Nice one on FB Marketplace over by me..I got way more than this into mine and it’s not done yet...checks a lot of boxes...hot 289, 4 speed, 9 inch...18K...timing is everything they say..

 

No V8 is required to cruise. I don't have one in mine, and I can haul comfortably at 85, all day.

 

This is a wild concept...anyone wanna guess..

 

1961 Impala bubble top, grafted on a 1963 Falcon Sprint.