700HP 427 SOHC 1967 Ford Fairlane //DT250

[Music] this point people always make fun of nad saying oh you're the honda guy I brought something different today twice as many cylinders my people would say wrong wheel drive I have a huge fan of this guest I've known him for a few years now he always brings something really special to SEMA he's brought everything from Nelson racing engines twin turbo Camaros to this last one 57 Ford ranch wagon was just gorgeous he did a martini Mustang which there's no such thing as a martini Mustang but he made something that is a martini Mustang a t5r but that but also for most people you probably from there with he builds a hammer yes that too I mean I'm leaving out one of the one of the biggest yeah exactly Steve what's up well after all that ass-kissing that was all Wow not only does he build these crazy cars but there's a narrative behind it and there's a reason for it you know yeah part of the design element I do is a backstory it actually helps the build so in this case the only way to do a 67 Fairlane to which I said something like right I didn't say why I think I said what was it I'm not tying all you fairlane guys I'm not anti fair Lance get it really clear you know I'm cool but it wasn't the first thing that popped in my head what am I gonna do with this and that's that negative it's what am I gonna do because I always want to branch out I want to do something different I wanted I want to make an impact all right so cool and selfish I want to build something I'm going to enjoy building I got to be excited about otherwise you like yay here's a really cool part it takes you know year and a half two years to build these cars sometime so I don't like it and I gotta like the idea or you know what am I doing this for sitting in my study I concoct a what if what if Ford had this thing called black ops their own little get-together secret group of designing and tinkering a performance stuff this is the body Ford used for their NASCAR and their drag racing now there's lots of rules in both of those races in fact NASCAR made the motor and this illegal it's the only motor that was ever been banned baby NASCAR right so too hot for NASCAR let's go let's go but what did you bring [Music] so this is the blackout's fairway exterior wise the front fenders these flares are brought out 1/2 inch 3/4 of an inch just a little bit the rear wheel looked a little too much like a fender skirt like a granny car yes used to be down here it's been raised up two and a half inches this actually was back here not that far but we parted it an inch the proportion looks better in my humble opinion styling wise asked about the wheels yeah these are your like Halle brand know they're better than there are painting mural we are wheels yes when I first told people and I'm gonna put this on the fairway and they looked at me like I had three heads I don't know trust me because it's so hella brand looking come yeah exactly no but can you imagine the car with any other wheel no and the front bumper the stock one heading its interestingly enough round round factory was a sway or turn signal that make no sense to me so we made a little raised area and the firm let's accept these and these are Cougar ah still keeping it with brand yep yep they look nice and makes sense and then we made the little spoiler underneath which comes off quick quick pin so when we trailer or take it somewhere the traps don't break the drop break this coil I wanna learn more about the air brake because I love this and I love how you said it was Jim Hall his driver thrilled the chaparral the other shadow driver was a exclusive McLaren yeah so and Bruce McLaren later went on to do the McLaren f1 that had the p1 and the bugatti veyron it led to all those lot of them with active air exactly exactly the idea on the race car said it was an idea it worked fantastic is that every time you put your foot on the brake the air brake would go up also providing drag so externally upset for some neat little tidbits basically locks seven Fairlane also working along the ideas of aerodynamics removing Barb's removing the door handles and there's a rod that just vertically comes up that works with the factory handle so I said why don't they just make a little bit just lift straight up on the rod and it also cleans up the air yeah so I just thought up that's it's really a piece of bent curved metal and this piece of metal is actually about that long it's got a little hole in it for the rod and a big hole for your finger you go up and down kids and on the inside stripped it down they had a big poufy - bit got rid of all that now go to your Google and look up a Ford GP the older one and actually the last one still has speedo here tacked way over on the right so I took that from them from Ford because that's what they're doing at the time right neat little things like how to start the car that big red thing and also no fancy steering with not even a race steering wheel because NASCAR at the time they use the factory wheel got rid of the horn button and just wrapped them now you can see this funky little thing on the floor there yes that is the one end of a torsion bar torsion bars are kind of spring instead of a coiled spring it's actually a long piece of metal that you twist like this so you're a front suspension going up will twist that bar now we thick and strong that bars how stiff your suspension will be that is an adjuster I can raise and lower the suspension and if I want to knock it out put a different bar and get a different height now that rides through it's hidden inside the frame rail comes out on an arm linked to the lower control Ford never did that we're experimenting yes trying adjustable torsion bars we're getting more stuff out of the air flow we're lightening up but we're doing it with older technical torsion bars to reduce they're on all your bones it's like a dune buggies and all the parts of Mopars yep so it's it's not a strange esoteric piece but it's also used sprint cars Indy cars f1 that kind of stuff it's a proven technology there's a proven a suspension open up the trunk a Nasra baton toss here you go that means Nance the cameraman now it's another set of torsion bars it's tied into the roll cage and the chassis you can literally unbolt the links you can see these arms they go two links that go down through tunnels that we created in the frame rail and they go to the top of the rear axle so when the rear axle comes up pushes up on this arm and this bar twists and if I want to raise or lower the car I do it with the adjustable and so here on the day of testing and we want different bars and both the links unbolt the connection the whole cradle comes out switch the bars bolted in don't even have to get under the car use a lift change Speedway Speedway rear end right this piece back then fuel safe made this cell first I wanted this big you know huge the old NASCAR know you know get a bunch of fuel in there real quick but it's actually very very safe inside here's a bladder you know so crash protection this is modern technology in here just looks like an old big gas tank yeah this is how the wing goes up and down with the rear spoiler your kids are gonna go show car details everything this is controlled by electronics right you know relays modern relays you don't want that shown so what do you do you get the cover box from a 67 68 cougar okay ask the sequential taillights oh this covered the electronics in those toilets so that's a Ford piece that cream white piece okay so when I'm walking around for the fourth designer where they go even this is you know details are everything anyway I think we've alluded to the engine but we didn't really talk about the engine let's just you know of course ya know Tremec no I couldn't yeah I'm sticking with exactly artistic license different wheels different this net modern this is like the meat potatoes kind of a Holy Grail can we say timing chain on this one this is eight foot or eight foot timing timing chain look at this that's just such a great oh the guy who made it look at that EDI yep did the motor that sticker came on the motor after they died note it then this was a huge tip of the hat for us old 60 70 decal still laying around that they Oh ground upon us which was really awesome so the intake is made it never existed we wanted you to look like an old Mickey Thompson piece I dreamt up this for two barrels split and then these are called LeMans bowls they're actually the older bowls at the NASCAR guys they're still no it's normal bullets just the way that the inlet comes in and there's one guy in the country you can get those from and then we had to make now these look like that like the Cobra air cleaners but we actually had to make them because the distance between and the width has nothing to do with a cauldron we made both of them to look like Ford pieces of course I also read something else didn't you do a little thing on the exterior where the fender badge that is a Cobra badge that is from the first year I thought that was perfect for the Cobra that is a piece that would have came on the on the 289 unmanned the end the big-block ones but yeah it's a neat Ford emblem but again what was laying on the perch spin you know what would make sense so detail so here's another little detail you see this damn shroud yeah and you see the ruler in the little pointer well in NASCAR even today aerodynamics rules and they close off the front of the car so a lot of time but it affects cooling right so let's say back then they had learned by closing off the radiator it was helping but maybe it was hurting cooling so they're testing these are adjustable you slide it out to two inches one inch one and a half inch and you can mark how well it was cooling or not if it changed your top speed or not so again it's just a fun you know artistic piece of interest it's definitely conversations yeah it's got its conversation piece real quick yes sir engine compression output is working rate high because we run it on ninety-one pump hot day really is yes it's real crispy sounding this is very crispy yeah it sounds like the chop it's a chop King we should give him the medal for chalky that sounds that it's nest they're probably 11 11 1/2 to 1 because of the aluminum head but it runs 91 pump no no octane additives nothing right literally talk to a gas station but in 91 that's what's in it right now horsepower it depends which intake we use if we used a more modern intake that isn't so because this looks awesome but it has its own inherent problems like back in the day yeah so believe it or not single four-barrel or dual quads on it probably little over 800 horse as it is now I'm pumped mind you as it is now mid six is seven I'm sorry it's very disappointing I hate how much is this way they weren't too heavy to begin with yeah I guess probably around 30 to 600 pound pump gas okay still fun to drive whoa it's spirited yes it'll get out of its own way I mean basically it's a NASCAR the street that is exactly it doesn't like cruising around the street like I done that even though it's a did Aaron Cranford do the exhaust work on his air that's my friend shout out Aaron it's a four into one collector into an oval it's just gorgeous I'm sorry okay whoa it's a little warm it's been in my pocket oh my gosh I come earlier wait a minute wait a minute one yeah you can't you can't is for the children yeah because we need you to do something else first you have to burn this you got this is how this starts it's a gateway it's a gateway what that was a gateway yeah no like you brought a beautiful car it has more than enough power at six hundred conservative power can we just show it for a second on the valve cover I think we you know Steve has to give us something something if we're gonna think pink we need to do it right I think this is the chop King Award winner it's this point out I won't be able to hear anything you said thank you very much like a little Symphony knowing it fills each side is a thing amazing yeah so uh oh my that's pretty good yeah point out oh pretty good point out pretty good yeah yeah as a customer's car so that's why we're not gonna get super rowdy with it because Wow makes good noise huh no this thing's beautiful it's like little bells jumping off in the exhaust yeah it sounds so good man I do this kids this is wrong thank you for coming out we expect to see much more we appreciate it and please bring the z28 Nova about three quarters as much is that your car still yeah customers but he lives about 20 minutes away from him oh cool he'll be totally good if you come down here thank you so much thank you Steve stroke pure vision my hero [Music] you like it down you think it's nice yes I enjoy your vehicle I just heard a lot of rumbling and came outside yeah

Channel: Hoonigan

Views: 1,353,070

Keywords: ford, fairlane, muscle, muscle car, hoonigan, the hoonigans, daily transmission, brian scotto, steve strope, sema, ed pink, nelson engine, horsepower, burn out, donut garage, nascar, drag car, race car, ford fairlane, pure vision, sema build

Id: OnwPUVAMsI8

Length: 15min 52sec (952 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 27 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/CTJacob]

These things made 657hp @ 7500rpm in 1964. The engine weighed 680lbs.

You could buy it from the Ford Parts Counter for $2350 in 1968.

$16,575 in today's money.

It's the only engine ever banned from NASCAR competition thanks to Chrysler. A 426 HEMI vs 427 SOHC in the 1965 NASCAR season would have been epic.

[u/r_golan_trevize]

What an engine.

That wail at full throttle is pure wickedness.

[u/candidly1]

You can have any domestic engine you like; hemis, shotgun 429s, cobra jets, all the various copo variants; even L88s. I will take a 427 SOHC Ford anytime, over all of them. I know they are finicky as hell, but I i will somehow manage.

[u/CyberianSun]

Mother of god that is so bad ass. Also side note they need to have John be in more DT stuff again.

[u/SignificantBroccoli]

Great googly moogly.

[u/Zcypot]

damn... i have a 55 fairlane shell in my garage...I would love to make it sound like that haha..even if its not as fast. Just drop a new engine and drive it all rusty.

[u/intercede007]

"Black Ops" 1967 Fairlane

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/black-ops-1967-fairlane-famed-blue-oval-speed-parts/

[u/DrTommyNotMD]

That's a pretty badass engine, considering it was 50 years ago.

That being said, it's amazing how much cars have improved since then. The rest of the car aside from the engine especially. A really lucky run with 650 horsepower car back then barely broke into the 11s in the quarter, and holy hell that car didn't handle well.

[u/jpapex]

I can't say I'm a fan of the body style but all of the little design choices make it likeable. Especially, the larger rear fender, side exit exhaust, pull open door handle. etc. etc.