Must be my hillbilly computer.

-Gary Burnette-

I sent mine to questions@enginemasters.com. So far I've not heard anything back.


Lawrenceville, GA

Mark, not sure if I did it right or not but I sent the first email too questions@enginemasters.com and it came back as a failure, then I resent it too inquiries@automotive.com  and so far it has not come back.

Charlie, which email did you use to send your inquiries too?  If I'm wrong then I need to resend it.

-Gary Burnette-

Gary,



How or where does someone go to do the same as you. I would like very much to add a few cents to that cause.



Mark Hebard

57 Black Tbird 312/auto

Just sent my 2 cents worth into enginemasters concerning the yblock being included again.

-Gary Burnette-

i think it was also banned by the NHRA too around 67?

This ain't no L-Kamino!

The SOHC is permitted, too. Certainly not hydraulic in any way. That indicates to me that they just aren't aware about the Y.



I was just reading on wikipedia, it says the cammer is the only engine ever banned from NASCAR. They need to check the history books.


Lawrenceville, GA

Paul.  Thanks for the tidbit regarding the early Studebaker V8.  If that particular block or engine family was not later retrofitted with hydraulic lifters, then it would be like the Y and a solid lifter only engine.  The FE’s when first introduced in 1958 were solid lifters but hydraulic lifter versions were introduced into that family of engines not long after the engines introduction.

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The 427 FE sideoilers received hydraulic lifter capability in 1968 as well as the 427 service blocks manufactured after this point.  Many of the aftermarket FE blocks also have hydraulic lifter capability regardless of the oil gallery layout so I doubt you’d see any sympathy from the rules committee on wedge headed FE’s that were solid lifter only on the blocks.  Because FE’s were available with hydraulics, if someone wanted to use this engine as the basis of an EMC entry, they would be expected to simply use a hydraulic lifter capable block.  Because the 427 SOHC was overhead camshaft, hydraulic lifter versions just didn’t make it into production so this engine is considered a solid lifter or solid tappet only design.  There are some specific GM engines that also came with solid lifters but hydraulics were also available in the same family of engines so the ‘solid lifter only’ argument on those particular engines would not stick in this case either.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

About Ted's question about other engines that were solid lifter. I doubt that anyone would consider entering one, but I believe the original Studebaker OHV V-8, introduced in Commanders in 1951, was a solid lifter engine...

Paul

Ted:

Weren't the non SOHC 427 side oilers available only with solid lifters?  The hydraulic 427s were top oilers, were they not?

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"