Thanks for clearing that up for me John

Charlie.  Thanks for the offer but will not need them in the short term.  During the EMC engine testing, Joe Craine brought down a large selection of spacers which were tried in various combinations.  Once it was determined that the engine preferred some shared plenum volume space, carb spacer testing leaned towards that direction.  The EMC engine basically liked 3” of spacer with two inches simply dropping the scores and 4” being no change or a slight drop in numbers depending upon the combination.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

You said you'll eventually get around to it.  When you do, let me know if you want any of them to test.



Lawrenceville, GA

great job everyone! great results! say john, an aluminum head for the Lincoln y sounds like fun!!!!

 lincoln/merc. y-blocks &mel's                                                               bucyrus, ohio.

THANKS for your write-up, Ted.  Like Royce's, very revealing of what you've been through as an EMC entrant.

I look forward to your write-up for Y-Block Magazine and hope that Royce will consider making the time to do one as well.

As a hobbyist, you and Royce have grown my understanding and appreciation of what's involved in making a modified engine perform.  It's certainly not just a matter of ordering a bunch of performance parts and carefully assembling them together.  UGH!

I'm pleased to learn of John and Geoff Mummert's continuing involvement in y-block development and of Joe Craine's porting work for both you and Royce.  It's neat the fraternity of enthusiasts who have helped you and Royce in preparation for the EMC and at the actual competition.  Thanks to all for what you've done as participants and supporters of our mutual interest.  

NoShortcuts
a.k.a. Charlie Brown
near Syracuse, New York

Its pretty interesting, to see the manifolds overlayed.  The tunnel ram is the odd man in the graph.  Seeing the dual plane come on strong in the early game and taper off on the top end, as well as seeing the single plain dog it for a while and then come on strong and out perform dual plane on the top end all makes sense.
 Tunnel rams have always been the International Manifold of Mystery.  The  street style version are usually known for making big mid range, while race versions are know for being 8000+rpm monsters.
 It seems that the most knowledge to gain sits with that manifold. 
  
 Geoff Mummert



http://ford-y-block.com 

20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico

Ran across this just tonight...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaOhdZSPd1M

is there anything from HOT ROD on Royce or Ted?
While I appreciate John Kaase using a Y block to build, Royce and Ted have motors that are more true to life and what we actually put into vehicles.

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com

Well, Kaase got a ridiculously amount welded aluheads, Ted got canted valve one of kind factory aluraceheads and Royce got a good ported iron heads so I think Royce wins in that meter.


Hyvinkää, FI

While we haven't seen the full coverage of the Engine Masters, I tend to agree with Daniels assessement of the vintage class. As might be expected from Hot Rod Magazine, (who took over the contests from PHR) the perameters for the vintage class were hardly appropriate. Kaase's version of our favorite engine was over the top, likely not reasonably streetable & hardly vintage.. Too bad, for me, it spoiled the whole exercise..


Paul

It will be up to Ted, John, Geoff and Royce to decide what parts of the Kasse engine would be any improvement on a Y running the street or racing. He did a lot of wild mods and changes but I think when all is said and done his engine would be lousy for the type of performance we are looking for. Just my thoughts.

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire