Well everyone it's finally here, I am taking apart a Y-block that is Not Mine!!!!!!!! Can't tell you how good that feels. I am building it for a guy down the street for a 56 Ford. In return he is installing a "footprint gas pedal" on my truck (Joe Dirt). Just kidding he is actually doing some body work on my new pickup. When I disassembled it I found that one of the pistons was hitting the head and all the rod bearings were in really bad shape. The cylinder walls look fine but we will install new rods and pistons any way. I am not sure if the crank is fixable but we will see what the machine shop says. The engine was actually really clean and it must have came out of a mercury cause the valve covers said so. It had a cruisomatic behind it but we are going to install an AOD. He already got the cam from Mummert and if I remember it should have a pretty nasty idle and we should be able to make some power with it. I am excited to build one naturally aspirated and see what we can tune it to on the dyno. He already had the heads reworked a while ago and he bought a factory Ford aluminum dual quad intake and he found some exhaust manifolds, I am not sure what they are called but they come up towards the middle and go straight down. I will call John tomorrow and see what we can do for rods and pistons. I will probably zero deck the block to give us a little more compression. I was wondering also what you guys would recommend for carbs. The intake has a smaller bolt pattern than the normal 4150 square bore carb. I was thinking for an engine like this around two 400 cfm carbs might work well. Just have a couple pics of the engine I will take more as the project goes on.



The engine actually disassembled really well.



This is the piston that was getting into a fight with the head. The pistons are interesting how they have a little hole in the middle of them. My 292 didn't have that but I guess they were not Ford pistons either. It was neet even the valves have an Oval on them and say Fomoco on the them.