any STRAIGHT 6 in a Digger

i'm looking for pics and info.

 

i found this pic on the HAMB. what kind of trans do they run behind a 6 cyl? power glide?

 

Thats a HAMB Gas Rail (HA/GR) No Automatics allowed. do a search

 

thanks man, i've search for an hour so far and not much luck

 

well i found it lol not sure how i missed it

 

..... and another one.

 

My cousin had & ran a "rail" back in the late 60's- early 70's w/ a stack injected, zoomie piped, AMC (yikes!) straight 6 in it!

 

This one is in the Flying A Garage.

 

I am just starting a straight 6 Chevy 250 with a powerglide in a front engine dragster, I will try to get some pictures posted soon. I am going to start with the powerglide and see how it goes but I have a turbo 350 just if it seems like it needs a little more out of the hole.

Jon

 

My brother built one a few years back, started out with a Kaiser flathead 4 on alchy punched 1/8" over and a 3spd from a '41 chevy, eventually upgraded to a Ford 300 6 with a 'glide. He had a lot of fun with it, but times change and he sold it a couple years back. Heard it was running around southern Indiana somewhere.
Good luck on the build! Always like to see early digger types!

 

Jon,
with the right torque converter the 'glide should work best. The three speed will probably have too much torque multiplication out of the hole.

Roo

 

NIce rides I'll try and get some posted of a friend of mine's 250 altered it runs 9:16s @ 140 plus.

 

How about Kay Sissel's two in a row?

 

thanks guys. man, i didn't even know about HA/GA forum until last night and now i'm hooked.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=38

 

Not a FED per se, but front engined and a six. 300 Ford.


Mike Yoksich photo

 

Ahh yes, the Six Session. Any discussion of six holers is incomplete without a mention of Kay Sissel. He is to six cylinders what TV Tom was to Buicks. His stuff was as clean and well engineered as Tony Nancy's cars.

When I was a young, broke father, Kay would stop work and explain what I needed to do to keep my ol' '53 Chevy alive.

He was a wonderful human being. It was my great honor to make his aquaintence.

And no discussion of the Ford 300 six is complete without mention of Akton Miller. Another funny, smart car guy.

 

Lots of Jaguar powered FED's in the UK.

 

This is another with some of Kay Sissell's parts

 

i have plans in the back of my head for a flathead 6 fed ....

 

Coolest one I ever saw was at Famoso, a Hudson Flathead FED the the guy made a dual plug head for and a dual distributor drive. Ran high 9's low 10's.

 

We ran a Tom Mathews clutchflite in all of the 6 cyl cars that we ran. In the altered the C/SR and the D/D.

 

Here's one we put together maybe 20 years ago, only car I wished I'd kept. Had a 270 GMC with a powerglide, added a small horizontal radiator and electric water pump, and could make a p*** ,and drive it back as well...remember that Hudson rail, will look for photos.