Agent 47 Falcon Sprint Build

[Lance Carbuncle]

Thanks Guys,

I have been looking forward to this for a long time as well. The more the car comes apart, the more details are exposed and fine decisions need to be made.

I stopped by yesterday and the car is so far torn down that I decided to go ahead and just tear it all the way down and send the body out for media blasting so we have a perfectly clean slate to start with. I am the second owner of the car and it has never been hit, and has no rust, but there is quite a bit of rubberized sealer on the bottom of the car and inside the rear quarters and I want to clean and lighten the car as much as possible.

The car is going through a complete lightening by Jeff and his magic cutters and grinders. He has pulled and cut at least a couple hundred pounds out of the chassis already and has quite a ways to go.

We are also going to move the driver position in the car back about four to six inches. To do this, we are going to move the steering back as well as the whole dash so that the steering wheel remains the same distance from the dash and looks "right". This will allow us more room under the dash for the new Tilton Petal assembly we decided to go with, which is the same piece they use on the Harbinger Mustang.

It has been really fun going down to the shop and talking about the build with guys who seem just as excited about the build as I do. I thought I had everything figured out until they started throwing more ideas at me. For example, I have been set on a big bore 347 as the powerplant, but the guys in the shop just kept whispering "Coyote" in my ear so many times that I started to think about it. When they told me they actually weighted their race ready 331 with accessories, side by side with the equally accesorized Coyote, that the Coyote weiged 75 pounds LESS... I was a bit shocked, because when you look at them, the Coyote is just a monster. This detail alone made me really consider their suggestion.

My biggest concern is that I don't want to put any kind of a scoop on the car, I just like the clean hood look.....and for NASA Racing, we can't cut the firewall and move it back..... We took some quick measurements off the Harbinger, and they are convinced we can make it fit. They also have a mockup engine sitting on a stand, so I told them if they could show it to me with the Coyote sitting in it and the hood closed, that it was on!



So we made a friendly little bet, and will see what happens. I know I saw a build on here where someone put a Coyote in a '64 Falcon, and they put a big scoop on it... so we will see! I have also seen one first hand in a '63, and it required about an inch of raised hood. Stay tuned.