Well I ordered some vent loovers for my hood to try and remove some heat from my engine compartment. They are 11x17 and are made of aluminum and are falt black. Just an update the engine is running great after a summer of getting wooped on and pulling the dyno around the state. I may pull the engine this winter and reseal my rear main. The bracket in the back that holds the rear seal is cracked, sprayed it off and gobbed a ton of silicone up there but, ya, lets just say that didn't plug the hole in the damn. I would love to make a show next year like that y-block gathering so you guys will to keep me posted for next year.

Well made it back from another dyno show with the y-block with no hiccups. Truck ran great and pulled great, and it got plenty of attention also. A lot of our friends from the north were down from Canada in Minot,ND for our dyno show. I also installed my new dash from Dakota Digital which turned out great!! Sure is nice to have gauges again.

I would always let it cool down to around 212 before I would shut it off. I have a new aluminum 4 core radiator that will be here tomorrow. Can't wait to see if it fits good. Should get it in by the weekend and we are off to a lake party for the weekend so should get to test it out. I won't have the trailer but I should notice a cooler running engine, because it would run just slightly warmer than usual even empty.

A suggestion re the 245 degrees your engine is seeing under heavy load. Might be an idea to run the engine no load for a while before turning it off in those circumstances. Over heating is known to result in cracked heads, usually around the center exhaust valves sometimes on Y-Blocks...

Paul

I switched back to 91 because so many stations around here are pulling E85 from the pumps and when I was heading out to a car show with the dyno I ran out of stations with E85 so I has the laptop with me and had to tune on the fly. Actually I like the 91 a lot better my drivability is much better. It idles better and not that I am concerned with fuel economy but it has more than doubled since I switched to premuim fuel.

On the other hand the Y-block has proved it's durability again. I just headed out to my home town for a dyno day and put on over 375 miles with my trailer in over 90 degree heat there and back. My radiator is still the stock one from the 99 F150 and the truck runs pretty warm when pulling the trailer. I runs around 240-245 degree the entire time. It did not get any warmer so I just ran it down the road around 70 mph. It might be a little warm but it ran like a top. Today I ordered a custom radiator for it so that should take care of the problem. I credit the oil I use in this engine to lot of my success. I believe that the Joe Gibbs racing oil I use is top notch. It is HR3 15w-50 synthetic. I would imagine that my engine oil temps were even higher than that to. I pulled my hood off on the way back to my parents house thinking it might run cooler but it didn't help much. Here are a couple of pics from the weekend.



This is when we got to the farm on friday night. The kids love daddy's pickup.



This is after the parade on saturday and parked beside my other 03 F150.



Finally made it home on Sunday night after a weekend of work and pulling. I love this engine. It stole the entire car show and all it does is make power, run great and pull a trailer hundreds of miles a year to car shows. I usually pull at 7-10 lbs of boost and run with the o/d off. The sweet spot with my engine is around 3200 rpm in 3rd gear. At that rpm the engine has great power and turbos spool easily. Pulling the trailer is a breaze at that rpm, it takes very little of the turbos to maintain around 70 mph, and the pickup handles the load great. I did install a new 7al box and a new coil. I think it is going to take care of my spark issue at around 500 whp. I also think I am going to change to autolite AR94 spark plug. It is on step hotter than the 8 heat range ngk I am running now. I think I will be making a few dyno pulls soon.

I was wondering the same thing. Why did you switch to 91?

Very nice!


1955 Mercury

Thanks.

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia

I applied it to the shield and I used the silver tape.

Did you use the gold or the silver DEI tape? Did you apply the tape to the modules or to the shield?

Thanks

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia