I was reading a follow up story over on bangshift and they had the following (and frankly, with a Y-Block, even the extra cubes wouldn't make it a fire breather by any stretch}. Perhaps someone should send them a dyno sheet from one of the stroked, Mummert headed mills that have been created lately?

http://bangshift.com/blog/Mini-Feature-The-Incredible-1960-F100-by-Two-Brothers-Custom-Trucks.html

1956 Fairlane Victoria (ORREO)

 

Overlooking Beautiful Rimrock AZ

It's more fun to bring them to Columbus and rub their noses in it!

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

I think it's an insult even without Mummert heads, although they do add quite a bit.  Haven't we been showing what the old Y can do for some time now?  Did it not prove itself even back when it was new?  Who are these guys writing this crap?  Scrub Bumpkins!

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias

Don't know if would do any good, but there is a comments section where you can voice opinion.

"The Master Cylinder"

Enjoying life at the beach in SOCAL

Ignorance is bliss. It is this style of journalism that has relegated any engine that is not SBC to be regarded as inferior. If it wasn't for all the aftermarket stuff thrown at SBC's everyone would know them for what they are - poorly designed and outdated.

Back in the eighties there was a motto - dare to be different.

We, the informed, know that our engine of choice started life as a much better thought out engine than the GM product. the writer of the article probably is that far behind the times, he doesn't even know what our engines are now capable of.

I reckon leave them to their mediocrity and leave us to the best of the old stuff.

Regards

Rick - West Australia
Do Y Blocks Downunder run upside down? Gravity Sucks!!

Mummert and others believe a lot of this ignorance started when Peterson Publishing decided they liked the small block scrubs  and pushed them. Chevy was very busy making sure the aftermarket had access to their engines before public introduction and time to develop "Speed Equipment" for it. Ford on the other hand didn't seem to care. Even back then the average Joe would ask the gearheads about which car to buy. Chevy knew that (Duntov, Vince Piggens, etc) and used it.

    I think another thing that helped develop the "Y's are slow image" was the combination of the Loadamatics and the early Fordo's that started in second gear. Take a 272 two barrel Ford-o-matic in a Crown Vic and you have not got a race car. Although they sounded great with Smitty's, they were slow. By the time Ford responded, the damage to the Y block reputation was done. If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

   Guys like Ted and Hoosier, JC. etc.etc, have proven that it was anything but the truth, but it's 50 years too late to help the Y.

  You should see the stunned looks of the older crowd at the Pure Stock races when I show up with the red F code. 95% of them think it's either a 390 or something. They've never heard of an E code or F code Y block. Most won't believe it's stock, and even many of the guys my age, who were there when the cars were new, never heard of a 312. all they ever heard or read about was Scrub, Scrub, or Pontiac or Olds. Gonna be tough to change a 50 year old perception. I , personally don't even try, I mean who cares what the monkeys, who will never build anything, think? Those are the same guys who ran Tunnel Rams on the street because  Bill Jenkins had one on his pro stock cars. Monkey see, monkey do.  

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart)