Trick Flow engine builder and dyno master Todd Hodges fabricated the front motor plate from quarter-inch aluminum. All of the front-mounted accessories—vacuum pump, water pump, and oil pump—will bolt to this plate.

Todd also made tubing spacers to secure the plate to the accessory mounting holes in the block and on the Trick Flow PowerPort® cylinder heads. The water pump is a Meziere 100 Series electric pump. Rated at 35 gallons per minute, the pump features a CNC-machined aluminum housing, epoxy coated motor windings, an RF suppression circuit, and a one-piece, carbon-ceramic seal.

After installing the trigger wheel for the MSD Flying Magnet crank trigger system, Todd installs the drive mandrel and pulleys from the Moroso pump drive kit. Bolting the mandrel directly on the damper provides a more rigid mount for the pulleys, reducing the chance of pulley deflection or belt failure.

Todd checks the gap between the MSD crank trigger wheel and the pickup. MSD recommends a .060- to .080-inch gap between the pickup and wheel to generate the cleanest signal. A weak or scattered signal can cause ignition misfiring.

Todd checks the gap between the MSD crank trigger wheel and the pickup. MSD recommends a .060- to .080-inch gap between the pickup and wheel to generate the cleanest signal. A weak or scattered signal can cause ignition misfiring.

Todd made up several hose assemblies for the oiling system and the vacuum pump. This -12 AN assembly is connects the pump to the pickup inside the Moroso oil pan, and has a Moroso in-line filter to catch dirty and other gunk. There will be a return line connecting the pump to the adapter on the oil filter pad, and a line from the vacuum pump to the oil pump.

Our 598 Ford on Trick Flow’s Superflow dyno. The Holley Gen 3 Ultra Dominator carburetor sits on two 1 inch tall carburetor spacers. Initial dyno pulls with a single spacer showed there was more horsepower to be made. Adding the second spacer increases the intake manifold plenum volume (more air). That results in more top end horsepower, albeit at the expense of some low rpm torque. On a drag race engine like this, that’s a fair tradeoff—as you will soon see.

With extra carburetor spacer in place, the 598 made almost 1,026 peak horsepower at 7,100 RPM and 836 pounds-feet of peak torque at a lofty 6,000 RPM. The 598 made virtually the same numbers on subsequent dyno pulls, which shows the combination is pretty much optimized as Trick Flow can make it. Remember, this is an engine built with off-the-shelf parts that anyone can buy, with no fancy-schmancy custom work required. You can put this kind of power in a lightweight dragster and go have some fun!