As proprietors of the Keep Tuned and Vice Grip Storage channels respectively, Tony Agnelo and Derek Bieri are devoted to the proposition that it doesn’t take cubic cash to go quick and have enjoyable with automobiles. They’re additionally huge proponents of not taking a lot of something—together with themselves—critically. With a couple of zillion subscribers between them, numerous gearheads agree.
It was only a matter of time earlier than Tony and Derek obtained collectively on a undertaking—and this 1967 Ford Fairlane performed matchmaker.
Tony discovered the automobile on his native Fb Market and thought it might be an ideal undertaking for Vice Grip Storage. He satisfied Derek to purchase the Fairlane sight-unseen with the promise that the Keep Tuned crew would throw collectively a small block for it. Tony even talked Derek into coming as much as Pennsylvania to assist put the automobile collectively and flog it at Maple Grove Raceway earlier than driving it 900 miles to Vice Grip Storage headquarters in Tennessee.
Seems the Fairlane was a neighborhood legend of kinds in Tony’s nook of Pennsylvania. A man named Ted Carl constructed it within the late Nineteen Sixties and cleaned up at Maple Grove and different native drag strips via the early Nineteen Seventies. The automobile had been saved for nearly 40 years when Derek purchased it. The 427 ‘medium riser’ huge block Ford and four-speed have been lengthy gone, however the home made ladder bars, a driver’s seat out of some type of bus, a sketchy roll bar, and questionable suspension modifications have been all current and accounted for. Even the traditional rear air shocks have been in working situation.
Tony out and out lied to Derek in regards to the engine. As an alternative of a mildly warmed-over 302, the Keep Tuned crew constructed a potent avenue motor out of a 5.0L from a 1987 Mustang. The quick block was deemed acceptable, however most the whole lot else went within the scrap pile. After a name to Summit Racing the brand new components got here rolling in. The camshaft was pitched for a Summit Racing™ ‘F303’ hydraulic curler camshaft rated at .550/.540 inch carry. The manufacturing facility iron heads have been changed with Summit Racing™ Precision Solid aluminum heads fitted with 1.6 ratio Summit Racing aluminum rocker arms. The EFI system was tossed for a Summit Racing™ Stage 2 consumption manifold topped with a 750 CFM Holley 4150 Avenue HP carburetor. Take a look at the components record beneath to see what else Keep Tuned bolted on the little 5.0L.
As for the drivetrain, Tony and Derek threw in a T-5 five-speed transmission of questionable situation and a brand new Hays Scorching Avenue clutch equipment. The Fairlane already had a 9-inch rear axle, It obtained a brand new third member with 4.11 gears and a Detroit Truetrac differential.
Consistent with a budget is neat theme, the guide steering and four-wheel guide drum brakes have been retained. Being low-cost doesn’t imply being unsafe, so the brakes have been utterly gone via. As Derek stated, they have been simply fantastic.
So, was the Keep Tuned/Vice Grip Storage Fairlane a match made in YouTube Heaven? Did it make it down the monitor and get Derek again to Tennessee in a single piece with out severe mayhem? Spoiler alert: type of.
However don’t take out phrase for it. Seize a beverage and a few snacks, then cool down to observe these movies to see precisely how the whole lot got here (barely) collectively.
1967 Ford Fairlane Challenge Components Checklist
Lengthy Block
Consumption & Ignition
Exhaust System
Engine Equipment
Drivetrain
Wheels & Tires
Misc.
