The car looks great, brother! I look forward to seeing the track times that you get out of her...:beer:
Post an idle/running video please!
I bet that thing sounds nasty
Without knowing the RPM range, power it makes, or tire size that is great advice on telling him the 4.10's are "way too much gear" and that 3.55's would be better. :nonono:
OP, take the car to the track and find out.
4.10s are perfect for that setup on motor, and okay on spray too if you're using 28" tires. We spray a dart headed 408 (same .030 351 you have) with a C4 trans 5000 stall and 4.10 gear with a 275 shot and trap 6700rpm in a fox body on 28x10.5s Best ETs are 10.29 at 132 on motor and 9.13 @ 148 on the gun all through exhaust and street trim.
Gonna be a fun set up.
3 times at the track?
Assuming limited experience here take it easy till you get some time in the car.
Launch soft, get some speed up a couple times until you find how she feels.
Just finished building a very similar car with Nick Blankenship from E=HP and going by his standards. He was a guest up at my shop last week putting together my buddies car up here in CT with a very similar setup to run in True Street. Nick has won many recent NMRA TS events with his 408 stroker, 200 shot car. I picked his brain on the secrets of running 8's with these cars and the 1st thing we we did to my buddies car was pull out the 4.10's in favor of 3.55's per his advice. Nick's has seen 8.30's on DR's with his coupe with the current set up with 3.55's BTW. There are alot more tricks that are his secrets but a taller gear is not one of them. I am pretty sure that most 9 sec Foxes run a 28" tire. Thats a given no? oke: The fastest I have been in a push rod Fox is 10.6 and been a Mod motor guy since 2004 so I can only go by what the best I know with a well known track record that I personally know tells me. :uh oh:
being a track car makes it less stressful since you plan on it breaking or at least that its bound to happen
The 200 shot is the difference.
Nice car. Take that trim off and sand it down and paint it back matte black. Not a fan of color matched window trim. Be sure and post track times