John.  Thanks for the updates.  These have to help reduce the number of phone calls and allow you to get more done as a result.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Delivered the match plate with revisions to the Edelbrock foundry yesterday. They have a very defined way of going about things and it took some time to make the changes. They seem confident that they can make castings from our tooling. I have to think that they will be able to rectify any issues that might come up since they cast 100's of heads a week.

The Holidays will hold things up a bit but they should be able to make some samples fairly quickly. Hopefully all will go well and there won't be an extended period of trial and error.

I will keep you guys posted as things progress. Thanks for your patience.

http://ford-y-block.com 

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

     John,

Will these heads be sold as Edelbrocks or are they making these for you with your name on the head?

Bud in Northern Arizona on route 66 in Winslow (standin' on the corner)

If you're American, buy American

631/2 Galaxie 500XL 406   55 T-Bird

  John,   Is Edelbrock going to cast the heads then ship them to you for grinding and polishing and valve installation,also,will the heads have your name cast on them like your manifold?By the way,I work acrossed the street from the foundry in San Jacinto,Ca. so if you need any pickup or delivery--call me !(LOL) KID

Edelbrock is going to cast the heads purely on a job shop basis. No different than the previous foundry. I went to them because they cast so many heads I felt they could handle the problems that arise trying to do castings.

They did tell me they like to put their "E" or "EF" logo in the valve cover area. I have no problem with that. The heads will have my name and Y8 logo. There just isn't room for the entire logo on the head. In fact I don't think there is even room for their logo. It will probably end up on the deck in the reliefs under the intake ports.

Kid, do you work for McComis?

http://ford-y-block.com 

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

John,   No I'm behind him, I'm a supervisor at Skyline Homes,we build manufactured housing. I usually walk the side fence and look in at the body shop to see what's up and check out their prerunners and offroad trucks,plus there's another guy "2" shops down who dabbles with old cars and behind us is a auto restoration shop so there's always something to see! Vic  or his daughters sometimes bring out specialty vehicles and run up and down the street or at the foundry parking lot or film TV specials like for HorsePowerTV on Saturday Power Block segments.They built the 2nd building about 3 yrs. ago(think they said it was about 150,000 sq.ft.)but never been up to full production due to the economy.Can't wait to see a set of finished heads and dyno results.Going to be building a stroker Y block for the Courier so I'm interested in your alum. heads/new alum. manifold(bought the BT alum. manifold from you in '07) need more "umph"! OOps,starten to ramble on-- are you going to be open the week after Christmas(would like to get a trans adapter to install my T-5 this winter)? KID

This is great news, Now John, about the alloy block your going to do after the heads.....

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Y Blocks, The New Flathead!

KID, It seems like I'm always here. We will be open the week after Christmas.

Guys, don't count on any aluminum blocks from me. After the ordeal of making heads, nobody could talk me into that!

There are plenty of other projects I have in mind when time allows. We'll see how that goes.

http://ford-y-block.com 

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

Maybe old Vic will see these and change his mind about Y Blocks, seems like it would be pretty easy for them to pull out the old molds for the 573 intakes and cast up a few or even develope a few new products. This would help the guys that want them by not having to pay those outlandish ebay prices.

Glen Henderson



Freedom is not Free

Letohatchee, AL

Glen: You referred to "old" Vic (Edelbrock) which is a bit misleading, as Vic (Sr.) passed away several years ago. It's his Son running the company now. What is a bit surprising is that John Mummert was able to negotiate casting work from them, as Vic (Jr.) has made it clear in the past that he thought the Y-Block to be an "awful" engine.. Business must be slow...

Paul