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albark
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From: dayton,Oh
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posted 09-24-2000 12:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for albark   Click Here to Email albark     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What is this engine I can find no reference to it. Can one be built from a 302 boss/351 cleveland? see my add in classic stangs (66 hipo) thanks.

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SteveLaRiviere
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posted 09-24-2000 03:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SteveLaRiviere   Click Here to Email SteveLaRiviere     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It was an engine Ford developed in '68 for the Trans Am racing series. It was a failure due to lots of valvetrain problems. The pushrods actually went through the intake ports through tubes, hence the name.

It was replaced with the Boss 302.

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Moneymaker
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posted 09-26-2000 12:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moneymaker   Click Here to Email Moneymaker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
We did a thread on the engine once albark. It may still be in the archives. Alex

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DidgeyTrucker
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posted 09-26-2000 03:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for DidgeyTrucker   Click Here to Email DidgeyTrucker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by SteveLaRiviere:
It was a failure due to lots of valvetrain problems.

From what I've read the heads were dogs below about 7000rpm. The motors couldn't run in the narrow power band all day long. From the outside the heads looked like stock 302 heads, but when you removed the intake - BIG intake ports with a tube for the pushrod in the middle. The ports were really too big.

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posted 09-26-2000 05:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moneymaker   Click Here to Email Moneymaker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The 302 Tunnel Port was a great engine. It just wasn't given any development time or budget. The engineers had to rob as many existing parts as they could. Like 312 "Y" block rocker arms and shafts. It was rushed into production and then faced with the delema of passing the new 1968 emmisions standards with 2 4V carbs. Bunkie Knudson was pitting the Windsor guys against the Cleveland gang. The Cleveland group got more funding for development of their project. Alex

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