Congrats Jim, not a more deserving Y-Blocker, all the work you expend here and at the meets..

Ted always re-affirms my belief in him since the day at Texas Ford Shootout, Texas Motorplex campaining the TBolt with the 406, introducing me to this site and the Birdpalooza..

Brother and I own/operate 1957 Ford Fairlane 312/4x2 and two 1963 Falcons 302 rollers carburated 600cfm, FE427 sitting in shed..

Congratulations Jim! That should be a fun ride. 400hp sounds like enough street power to me.

It sure is nice to have a Y-Block engine builder with a Dyno next to his house to wring out all of our ideas and make them come to life. Another great job Ted.

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Ted built my dream engine, and I am glad that it was paid for while I was still making decent money! While this will make for a very quick ride, there are other Y-Blocks in process that will be more powerful. Who would have thought that we would be seeing 7 second quarter mile times from a Y? And as I recall, there are two in the 8 second club, both from central Texas (Randy Gummelt & Ted Eaton).



If you have watched the video and listened to that motor run, let me tell you that it ran equally as smoothly on the other pulls. While I seriously doubt that the motor will ever see 6400 rpm in the car, it is nice to know that it can do it and not try to self destruct.



I am truly lucky to live so close to "Doc" Eaton!



Thanks again Ted!

Jim (site owner)
'56 Club Sedan - Ted Eaton built 429 hp '292/318, '54 Sunliner - stock '302

Billy.  Rod journal sizes are 2.000” and the connecting rods are Eagle H-Beams (6.250” long) that have had their big end widths narrowed to work with the narrower Y block journals.  With the pistons being custom ordered, the 0.927" diameter wrist pins are simply placed in the pistons so that the block decks can be kept optimally high.  Changing the rod lengths simply means changing the wrist pin location (compression height) to compensate.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

That’s a loaded question as much of the pricing simply depends upon what is already on hand that can be reused.  If building an engine from scratch, then it’s obviously going to be more expensive.  Jim already had a core block and crankshaft, MSD distributor, Blue Thunder aluminum intake, aluminum timing and valley covers, and some of the other miscellaneous engine parts including a carburetor and carb spacer.  Most of these parts came off of the +125 over 312 that was in the car up until recently.

 

The pistons are custom made to take advantage of the metric ring design while the connecting rods are aftermarket H-Beams modified to work with the offset ground crankshaft.  And Jim’s engine also has one of the very pricey ATI dampers obtained before Innovators West came on board as a Y-Block damper provider.  The big ticket items are the aluminum heads, custom piston set, connecting rods, and roller tipped rocker arms with shafts and quality pushrods and these alone account for over $4000 out of the budget.  Then add in the rings, camshaft, lifters, bearings, gaskets, offset grinding the crankshaft, oil pump, premium grade bolts, new ignition wires, spark plugs, oil & filter, machine work, balancing, assembly labor, and dyno time, it starts adding up.  Sounds pricey until you actually look through the list and realize it’s not that far out of line with any performance buildup that’s performed on any other family of engines.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Sounds good Jim! Can't wait to read the build artical.

Glen Henderson



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Letohatchee, AL

Ted, Offset grinding the crank, what did you use for journal sizes and did you use custom rods? Lengths?

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58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

Impressive. I am planing to keep mine somewhere around 6200 because of the cast pistons. I do not expect to get 400 horses out of it but hope for 350 to 375. More would be good.

429 was at 6400

Jim (site owner)
'56 Club Sedan - Ted Eaton built 429 hp '292/318, '54 Sunliner - stock '302

What RPM did it hit 429 HP? Cam sure does not sound all that radical. Goes to show it does not take radical cam to make horsepower. IF and when Mummert ships my heads I think I will be happy with the results. Heads are a big part of the secret. Back in the day the stock ECK-G heads made a world of difference on a 292.