March issue 2017 Hot rod has a picture of Teds winning Y Block on front cover and story on page 62.


-Gary Burnette-

COOL! Is that issue available now or did you get an advanced copy somehow?

  Ron Lane,  Meridian, ID

Picked it up at the super market, book section.


-Gary Burnette-

I subscribe and mine came today.

Now everybody's gonna want a Y-Block.



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Found this cover shot of the March issue on the Hot Rod Magazine site.  This makes two years straight now that the Y has taken a first place in the Engine Masters Challenge Vintage Engine class and also been the focus of the cover on Hot Rod Magazine.
 

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

I still have a series of articles that i think were in Car Craft back in the '70's or '80's on building a Y Block. They were less than enthused as i recall and the end result was less than spectacular. The engines could be made to run a lot better than what they came up with at the time. Nice to see them get the respect today that they deserve. Been driving one since '63 and they always ran as well as or better than other cars in the same class.

slumlord : I think the articles you reference too were in Popular Hot Rodding around 1970-71. Unfortunately, they messed up & gave our favorite engine an undeserved  black eye. That subject has been covered some here previously & a subsequent testing of Tri-Power intake manifolds, by our moderater Ted Eaton, gave a good look at what mainly went wrong with their build up. The primary issue was that they chose to use an untested "Offenhauser intake". In Ted's much later tests of  7 of that style of intake, the Offy, unfortunately finished dead last!. If anyone's interested that test info is I believe available on the Ted Eaton Balancing website.. 


Paul

Thanks Ted,
Now when I tell people I have a Y-Block Ford in my car they say you mean like the one on the cover of Hot Rod ! Then they ask if it makes that kind of horsepower, and then of course I tell a little white lie and say O sure it does !! 
Larry   

Hasn't hit the shelves in my area, yet.  Still the February issue.


Lawrenceville, GA