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By davis - 15 Years Ago
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expect to finally see the Y-block offering and an old school 6x2 for SBC.? the new 94 does look sharp though.
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By pcmenten - 15 Years Ago
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That carb actually looks somewhat original. I think that the other 94 carb replacement made by Demon is fugly.
Too bay Holley doesn't make more of the 94s. Seems like there's a market.
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By The Master Cylinder - 15 Years Ago
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Paul, I agree. I just don't like the looks of the Demon, looks too modern. If you are going for the Nostalgic look the Edelbrock 94, or even better the new Stromberg 97 (not the Speedway Chinese Junk) look much better and are backwards compatible (parts wise). Just my 1¢ worth.
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By charliemccraney - 15 Years Ago
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Edelbrock sure are funny. I was just looking at the online catalog. There's already a victor manifold out for Toyota v8. That's a 3500-8000rpm manifold for those who don't know. Is there really more demand for a high performance Toyota V8 than there is for street performance Ys? At least they are finally going to be producing something again.
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By Ted - 15 Years Ago
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charliemccraney (11/14/2010)
Edelbrock sure are funny. I was just looking at the online catalog. There's already a victor manifold out for Toyota v8. That's a 3500-8000rpm manifold for those who don't know. Is there really more demand for a high performance Toyota V8 than there is for street performance Ys? At least they are finally going to be producing something again.The Toyota hopup parts business is popular by a long shot and part of this is driven by the number of those V8's on the road now. Rice burner 4 cylinder high performance parts sales are good also. It’s the reintroduced scrub 348/409 heads and intakes that I’m having trouble with though as I just don’t see that taking off in my part of the country simply due to the lack of cores. And I don't see a line of buyers for the new 409 blocks that have just been reintroduced for this particular engine either. But passion seems to drive many of those projects that otherwise would not make it under normal circumstances.
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By charliemccraney - 15 Years Ago
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I understand there are a lot on the road, but the Victor is a carbed intake which will not be street legal for those vehicles. I can understand a street legal, fuel injection intake for them but that's not what we're talking about. People must actually be racing them somewhere. It doesn't seem to be happening around here.
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By Y block Billy - 15 Years Ago
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During Fair season they have truck pulls in my neck of the woods and the Full sizeToyota's walk away with the weight compared to the other brands. They definately have their weight distribution in line. Although not a fan of them maybe there is a market in the truck pulling corner.
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By John Mummert - 15 Years Ago
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I agree with Ted. Why build a 409 when a 454 is readily available and much cheaper. Scrubs guys are rarely in to restoration. My experience is that the Mopar guys are in to restoration, Fords guys like some mods but like to keep the car original to some extent and the scrub lovers will butcher an old car with any part they can find. As far as Toyopet racing, they are likely used in off-road racing like in Baja this week. Trophy truck racing is big around here and the bugets are hugh. $150-200K to go race for trophys. I don't know if the Edelbrock Victor intake would fit the NASCAR Toyo's. The Edelbrock 94's are diecast from what is said to be original tooling. Funny, they don't do diecasting so they have to farm that out.
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By MarkMontereyBay - 15 Years Ago
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Anybody know what the roots of the Toyota V8 are. They tried many years(decades?) ago to con NASCAR into accepting a scrub V8 as the powerplant for a Cup car but it didn't happen. I think Penske was involved in that little adventure. The idea as I remember it was to plug a number of scrub small blocks into their trucks in order to qualify as a production motor. The Japanese haven't a great record of innovation but are very good at "reverse engineering" American and British cars and motorcycles although the first 5 or so seasons in CART was abominable mess. Almost as embarrassing as the Porsche debacle. Wasn't the early Landcruiser (Landrover)engine a copy of the Chevy stovebolt? The Dastun Fairlady, precursor to the 240Z was a TR3/4 clone. I would think the current Toyota V8 must have some serious GM DNA.
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By Hoosier Hurricane - 15 Years Ago
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Mark: kLandrover bought the right to the aluminum buick V8 of '61-'63, if I'm not mistaken, they still use it. John
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By charliemccraney - 15 Years Ago
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Land Rover = British. Land Cruiser = Japanese (Toyota).
The Victor intake for Toyota looks Ford, but then so do the Chevrolet Nascar engines.
I think some other British brands use that Buick V8, too.
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By MarkMontereyBay - 15 Years Ago
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I am a solid Ford guy but I had a 63 Olds F 85 back in '71 with that aluminum 215 4bbl. I really liked that engine and performed pretty well for its size. Always thought it stupid of GM to give it up.
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By Bob's 55 - 15 Years Ago
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Getting a little OT here but don't forget the Turbo version of the Olds 215" (Jet Fire?) which ran pretty decent.
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By PF Arcand - 15 Years Ago
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It brings to mind many years ago, I tried to hook up a mechanical oil gauge to an early Honda Civic. No one could tell me what the thread was for the block fitting. Finally found a parts/machine shop that had a book on engine threads etc. The block threads were "British pipe" thread. One thread/ inch different than U.S. pipe thread...
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By John Mummert - 15 Years Ago
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As I understand it, when the British pulled out of Hong Kong they left behind their car making equipment. Datsun bought the British Leyland (probably Austin in those days) tooling so the early Datsun engines were the same as an MG engine. The heads would interchange, the only difference was the MG valve cover is held on like a Y-Block and the Datsun has screws around the edge 289 style. Early 1200cc Datsun 4 cylinders used a lifter that will interchange with a Y-Block. The head diameter is .875" like other Fords. I saw a very early Datsun sedan at a local gas station years ago. Looked exactly like an Austin. The old Toyota Landcruisers used a copy of a 235 scrub 6. Anyone remember the BMW copy Marusho motorcycles? Appearently very unreliable. Never saw one, just a road test in Cycleworld.
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By charliemccraney - 15 Years Ago
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John Mummert (11/18/2010)
Anyone remember the BMW copy Marusho motorcycles?
Yep. I think we have one at the store. The engine and drivetrain is very close in appearance. The rest of the motorcycle is clearly not BMW. There are copies of many BMW Boxer twins. Some of them are so good that people, who do not do there research, have spent $30k+ to get something that is only worth a few thousand.
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By MarkMontereyBay - 15 Years Ago
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What Harley Davidson doesn't like to talk about:
Rikuo: Hemmings did a write-up recently on these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikuo_Motorcycle
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By Greg D - 15 Years Ago
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To put it in simple terms the japs swiped the Harley flathead.
I really can't stand rice crap anyway.
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By MoonShadow - 15 Years Ago
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Not exactly true! The hard core, made in America, Harley set up manufacturing with the Japenese prior to WWII. BUT they were not alone many of the car/truck makers in the US were also being made overseas including FORD! The vehicles were being made for foreign sales with manufacturing plants around the world. Not a big surprize considering the US had the biggest vehicle manufacturing base in the world. Not hard to believe when you know that American "flagged" (nation of registry) tankers refueled German ships and U-Boats at sea during the same war. As I recall the oil belonged to Standard Oil! Chuck in NH
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By 46yblock - 15 Years Ago
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The engine in that MC sure reminds me of what my '56 Flathead Sportster looked like!
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