Ace-Garageguy

Below is the only photo I've seen that clearly shows the water lines on the blue Mustang supercharged incarnation. There is a roughly Y-shaped pair of small diameter hard lines that run to the timing cover, on either side of the blower drive. Passages through the chain (timing) cover connect to the water jacket ports in the cylinder heads. These appear to be "steam" lines, vented into the reservoir tank, with no return connections visible. What IS visible is a small diameter "burp" or overflow hard line connected under the coolant pressure cap on the reservoir. This line runs down to a transverse tubular catch tank (edit) which appears to be the front frame crossmember.

Similar in appearance, but not the same in function. The nailhead crossover includes a thermostat housing on top, that's coupled to the upper radiator hose, and a lower connection to the top of the water pump.

The 390 is a member of the Ford FE engine family, all of which are visually similar (except the 427 SOHC "cammer", which is built on an FE block, but uses special heads). A fine opportunity to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_FE_engine There are lots of FE engines in kits, and the ancient Revell parts pack 427 pushrod version will build up to represent a 390 very well. EDIT: It's always a good idea to research photos of the particular application you want to model, as there are some relatively minor differences in appearance...like valve covers, intakes, etc.

When a jar of Hellman's mayo is right at 8 bucks, I think it's fair to say the rates for everything are way too high. But that's what you get when morons run things.

Confusing is advice from people who think they're experts (but aren't), endlessly rebleated.

Haven't you heard? In order to go carbon-neutral, they've changed their operations to show everything delivered way ahead of schedule, in order to eliminate the pesky necessity of actually delivering anything at all. There's a theoretical basis somewhere within the way common-core arithmetic is taught. Can't live in the past, you know.

It's not really a "discussion". You can NOT operate an engine designed to be liquid cooled on the street with no liquid cooling system. Period. The engine WILL terminally overheat, aluminum pistons WILL expand more than cast-iron bores, and they WILL seize solid. Period. BUT...drag racing engines typically run for such a short period of time, they CAN get away with no cooling system. As I said earlier, some classes of drag cars had nothing but coolant reservoirs, no radiators, no circulation. But they can NOT be driven as regular vehicles. Period. Even if these appeared to be "hot rod style" vehicles, they were set up for drag-racing only. Period. NOTE: One popular early setup was nothing but a crossover pipe between the water jackets on the heads, or the water pump ports on the block face, with a coolant cap for filling. And again, this is a drag-racing only setup and can NOT be used on a street-driven vehicle. Period. The crossover below is similar, but is equipped with a big fat AN fitting to connect it to an overflow can, required so as to not dump fluid on the track (or possibly to plumb it to an electric pump or radiator, again depending on whether class rules require a functional cooling system...but of course, in that case, there would be very obvious coolant lines to and from a radiator or reservoir).

Morning arriving with bodies piled in the streets may be an indication of an impending zombie apocalypse.

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Helsinki is when the devil's home goes blub blub blub beneath the waves.

"Can't" is one of the words I most hate to hear, though if a man say's he's having a hard time with something, but keeps trying, I'll bend over backwards to help him get across the line; if he gives up and says "I can't", I'm done with him.

Sounds like it was written by a recent HS grad.

Stump grinders are nowhere near as much fun as wood chippers...or as versatile.

Why not build it yourself for a fraction of the cost? People still do.

Regression in some forms seems to get rebranded as progression more and more lately, but those who are ignorant of history are doomed to make a dog's breakfast out of everything they touch.

I wonder if Bezos would even get the joke. Sure as shoes 99% of his people wouldn't.

Yup, which is exactly what I meant by someone who "...pays attention to details" being able to easily spot a fake, in my response to Tom. Sadly though, I notice this type of usage error more and more frequently in native English speakers, which fuels my constant lament about the state of "education" in this country now.

I like pie.

Cool. I still have one in silver Burlington livery...assuming my remembry is still working.

Worse, worser, and worstest just isn't the right progression.

It depends. Certain classes of drag cars that are pushed to the line, fired up, staged, run, and shut down really wouldn't benefit that much from circulating coolant. We're only talking about 30 seconds running time. Some drag engines, like those that run on alcohol in particular, get enough cooling of the piston crowns and valves from their fuel to prevent catastrophic failure. IIRC, Danny Thompson's recent Bonneville record car had solid billet blocks, with no provision for cooling, and those engines ran for several miles flat out. His father Micky Thompson's Challenger 1 had large onboard coolant tanks, but no radiators, and simply circulating cool fluid from the tanks was deemed sufficient, in the interest of eliminating aero drag from radiators. "Hot rod" engines, on the other hand, assuming a "hot rod" is a street-drivable car, will need a functional circulating cooling system to prevent melt-down. HOWEVER...we'll usually run newly-built engines for 30 seconds to a minute or so to check for oil pressure and oil leaks prior to adding any coolant. But honestly, I'm not current on how things are done today in drag racing. I know some real racers who ARE current frequent this forum, so I'll leave the definitive answers to them.

"With" is a preposition, and we're told not to end sentences with prepositions like "with", but nobody much pays attention to that these days...other than the terminally pedantic.

No problem. Sorry here too.

" Hoarded" kits from other old geezers' stashes frequently find their way into my "hoard", and if I don't build them before I fall off my perch, they'll end up getting "hoarded" by somebody else.

I'm not familiar enough with this car to give you a definitive answer, but in general, coolant reservoirs on a lot of drag cars were nothing really but "burp" tanks, giving the hot steamy coolant somewhere to go other than out on the track. Many drag cars today, and for quite a while now, have no cooling systems whatsoever. Water jackets filled with "cement' were once common, and solid billet blocks with no water jackets at all are seen frequently these days.