Thanks Gary.  I’ve got a buyer for my 2015 EMC engine once the pistons have been changed out to run on pump gas.  This will give me the funds to start on next year’s EMC engine.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Ted , your engine did Great and did the Y blocks a Great honor on how well it preformed!

-Gary Burnette-

Jon Kaase is very proficient at port and valve angle design so it’s no surprise that his Y heads were totally reworked to get a winning combination out of them.  My own heads were simply angle milled so that the valve angle was 16.8° rather than the stock 18°.  It’s hard to say exactly what that’s worth HP wise as the valve sizes, compression ratio, spark plug sizing (10mm), and rocker ratio was changed at the same time as the valve angle was changed.  But all those changes were worth 22HP which was significant.  I was handicapped on the camshaft as my short lobe center camshaft failed early on and I was simply forced to use a less desirable camshaft.  As a result I had an engine that was peaking 594HP at 6800 rpms and was not the player it should have been in the 3000-6000 rpm range.
 
I am considering an EMC specific Y for next year’s competition which I would expect to be a better player than the engine I used this year.  This year’s engine was built with many parts that were sitting here in the shop so from that regard, it did really well.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.