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Rustang
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posted 11-20-2003 07:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rustang   Click Here to Email Rustang     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm wondering how different it is from the current Yates design

http://www.mustangweekly.com/2003/November/news/n11-7-6th.asp

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Perk 351C
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posted 11-20-2003 08:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Perk 351C   Click Here to Email Perk 351C     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, It's about time! One Ford in the Nascar points top ten,not too good.Perk351C

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Mpcoluv
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posted 11-20-2003 08:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mpcoluv   Click Here to Email Mpcoluv     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I think is is like the SB2 chebby head where the intake ports point towards the center of the engine.
So the front two chambers/ports on each side are mirror images of the rear.

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Tbird
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posted 11-20-2003 09:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tbird   Click Here to Email Tbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The cylinder head has been listed in the FRPP catalog for a year or so now....M-6049-SC1

http://www.oemfordparts.com/PartDetail.asp?S=1&PartID=1172&SubCategoryID=38

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Mpcoluv
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posted 11-20-2003 09:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mpcoluv   Click Here to Email Mpcoluv     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Tbird:
The cylinder head has been listed in the FRPP catalog for a year or so now....M-6049-SC1

http://www.oemfordparts.com/PartDetail.asp?S=1&PartID=1172&SubCategoryID=38



Actually, that is not the new NASCAR head from what I gather.

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Rustang
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posted 11-20-2003 10:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rustang   Click Here to Email Rustang     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There was a head Ford made in the early 90's that I saw at a swap meet once. It had the symetrical intake ports (mirrored, front 2 cylinders to the rear 2) and had the center exhausts "siamesed"). NASCAR never made that head legal but sounds like it may have been ahead of its time.

If memory serves the heads I saw were run on an ARCA car and it kicked a$$

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bifs66
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posted 11-20-2003 06:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for bifs66   Click Here to Email bifs66     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From what I understand, the new head has some changes to the port layout, not a major redesign. I think its a tribute to the Ford production based NASCAR engine, with 30 year old roots, that it has remained competitive with the pure racing engines developed by GM and Chrysler. Its telling that the classic SBC (replaced by the SB2) had to be abandoned by GM for them to be competitive with it's old rival Ford engine. Its also interesting that the the newly designed Toyota, GM, and Chrysler NASCAR engines all have the middle two exhaust ports adjacent to eachother. It must have something to due with arranging more efficient intake ports for a single plane, single 4V intake. The new Ford head keeps the traditional Ford layout; although there is some talk of a completely new engine design to come a few years down the road. It almost looks to me that NASCAR is slowly implementing the concept where everyone uses the same generic engine and body.

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Daniel Jones
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posted 11-23-2003 03:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Daniel Jones   Click Here to Email Daniel Jones     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
> There was a head Ford made in the early 90's that I saw at a swap meet once.
> It had the symmetrical intake ports (mirrored, front 2 cylinders to the rear
> 2) and had the center exhausts "siamesed").

Those were the 2nd generation tunnel ports. Basically no interchange with
any other SBF head and required matching/custom everything. They actually
made it into the Motorsport catalog but were never really available. When
they were cancelled, someone bought up the remaining stock from the initial
casting batch. I saw them for sale at one of the Columbus All Ford swapmeets.

Dan Jones

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Rustang
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posted 11-24-2003 08:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rustang   Click Here to Email Rustang     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hey Dan, that's where I saw it too
Are you making the trek to Columbus this weekend?

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Mpcoluv
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posted 11-24-2003 09:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mpcoluv   Click Here to Email Mpcoluv     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Daniel Jones:
> There was a head Ford made in the early 90's that I saw at a swap meet once.
> It had the symmetrical intake ports (mirrored, front 2 cylinders to the rear
> 2) and had the center exhausts "siamesed").

Those were the 2nd generation tunnel ports. Basically no interchange with
any other SBF head and required matching/custom everything. They actually
made it into the Motorsport catalog but were never really available. When
they were cancelled, someone bought up the remaining stock from the initial
casting batch. I saw them for sale at one of the Columbus All Ford swapmeets.

Dan Jones


RDI had the heads and intakes several years ago. I called and got pricing....They wanted around $2k for the castings and 600 for the intake IIRC.

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Daniel Jones
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posted 11-24-2003 03:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Daniel Jones   Click Here to Email Daniel Jones     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
> Hey Dan, that's where I saw it too
> Are you making the trek to Columbus this weekend?

Maybe. I'll be in Ohio but I'll probably be working on cars.
If I can get away, I'll probably attend.

Dan Jones

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