Correct, the BME Cougars ran 2 - 4bbl Holley's (390 CFM each if memory serves)
@GT350hr, do you mean dropped? They took their's down over an inch if I understood correctly.. Shelby did 1", BME did like 1.75 I believe.
Looking at the pics, I see Phillips point, but the body line looks straight. If the grille was cut down, the body line would be off.... Maybe I'm not following?
@Phillip If you haven't seen it, here's a great 3 part series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epz2Ari5SEM
Go to 1:31 on the 2nd video for Green Valley video. I just re-watched. Looks like Torque Thrusts to me on the GV video.
Another good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOajM9PRP88
@ShelbyDoug, you need a Cleveland 'box' intake still? I know who has one.
@GT350hr, correct! They are "wall art" IMO...
@Royce, yes. Sebring did not (does not) have trees like that. Right on the Torque Thrusts. Guessing Lime Rock as you say.
A BME box, no. That was settled long ago. In fact it might have been a 2-4 I was looking for and was making the rounds of who might have still had one? That was '77-78 or around there.
I was actually hoping that H-M had made thier own along the lines of the 289 T/A since they made a lot of "experimental" stuff and were credited with things like the Detomaso Pantera Weber manifold but no dice. The time of the 2-4 had passed.
No, that's my Pantera. It's settled. A3 heads with matching Weber manifold, 48 ida's and 180 headers. Done 600hp. 450 torque. That's enough. Too expensive to break the ZF.
I personally went with a 1.5" drop with ball joint wedges. Smooth as silk with great stability. 1-1/8" front bar. No bar in the rear, one big leaf added.
I noticed that one on several R models, post SA. No Konis's in the rear. Cure-rides with the big pistons. Smooth.
Big Ford front disc's. Lincoln Veralles rear discs and banjo. Looks stock except a little low in the front. No tech's around except Randy waving black flags at the drag strip. Some people?
I don't see 390's for carbs but BME was a bit of a lone wolf radical so maybe? I'm still playing the carbs game but 3300 and 3301 work really well but 1850's aren't bad either.
A pair of 600dp's might be the way to go on a comp car doing away with the progressive linkage but are too much for the street.
The 2-4 FoMoCo isn't bad port matched, but won't take the 700's. The C6 will. That's what I see the difference as. Randy calls it the turd but that must be box stock? Why worry about tech inspection now? Is there someone who is going to do an engine volume test on you? KEEP Randy away from the car.
Give him a plate of home made brownies. By the time he finishes them, he'll forget what he was doing.