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By speedpro56 - 12 Years Ago
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Ted Eaton takes his 375 inch ford Y to the Engine Masters Challenge and changes perception of his Cold War classic. This is in the new Modified Mustangs & Fords magazine page 44 and the front cover says Prehistoric Muscle: Building a 540HP 375CI Ford Y-BLOCK.
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By charliemccraney - 12 Years Ago
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Cool. I wonder, did they just find out about it??
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By Grumpy1 - 12 Years Ago
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The mags know all about it, they just dont want to admit that they have been wrong for 50 years.
Greg
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By Ted - 12 Years Ago
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James Smart (Modified Mustangs and Fords) first contacted me last May regarding an article on the Y entries for both years at the Engine Masters Challenge. Since that time I simply forwarded him pictures and technical info on the engine at which point he put together the text. I just received my copy and James did a good job in combining both years of the Y in the EMC into a single write-up. Some pretty good ink for a ‘dinosaur’engine.
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By The Bat out of hell - 12 Years Ago
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Ted,that's amazing work. I was real happy just getting 300hp out of my 292
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By John Mummert - 12 Years Ago
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Ted the article turned out well. Should help keep you busy for some time, as if you needed that. I'm surprised how many people have mentioned the article. i didn't know the magazine had that good a following.
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By davis - 12 Years Ago
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i just got to finishing reading that article. i thought it was pretty well done also.
some great ink for eaton and mummert.
and i admit the Y is coming round with popularity.
flatheads may be getting too expensive and the Y is the next in line for hot rodding.
maybe its the same firing order? dunno, but its all good stuff.
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By charliemccraney - 12 Years Ago
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Which issue is it? I looked for one tonight but didn't find it.
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By awhtx - 12 Years Ago
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charliemccraney (4/9/2013)
Which issue is it? I looked for one tonight but didn't find it.
Walmart has it. (At least the one in Jackson,MS that I was in.) There is a photo of a blue 2011 Mustang GT that has been re-skinned with '68 sheetmetal on the front cover.
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By Ted - 12 Years Ago
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Here’s the cover shot of the mag. Just look for the Y on the lower left of the cover. It's the May 2013 issue. 
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By charliemccraney - 12 Years Ago
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I didn't even see that one on the stand. Is that the most current issue so it will be on the stands a while longer? I don't really have time to go on a magazine hunt this week.
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By Ted - 12 Years Ago
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Charlie. I just got my copy a week ago so that should be the newest issue available. I suspect the previous months issue may still be on the stands at some of the stores.
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By Glen Henderson - 12 Years Ago
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Another good read is the article on the green falcon on the cover. powered by a 7.3 powerstroke.
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By pegleg - 12 Years Ago
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charliemccraney (4/9/2013)
I didn't even see that one on the stand. Is that the most current issue so it will be on the stands a while longer? I don't really have time to go on a magazine hunt this week.
charlie...........Walmart
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By charliemccraney - 12 Years Ago
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That's the first place I went. It's closest.
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By Y block Billy - 12 Years Ago
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WalMart, where its printed by the chinese, not Kmart the American one!
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By joey - 12 Years Ago
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Grumpy1 (3/30/2013)
The mags know all about it, they just dont want to admit that they have been wrong for 50 years.
Greg
TV shows too. I was watching "Desert Car Kings" the other night where two employees pulled a decent Y-block out of a junkyard to put in a T-Bird project. Their boss got angry, calling the engine "the worst dog of a V8," or something to that effect. As if the Chevy 265 was worlds better. You wonder where remarks like that come from. Just not true.
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By MoonShadow - 12 Years Ago
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I had to stop watching those crooks! A junk car with any engine that will fit (not even rebuilt) and quick body and paint and new interior is NOT a restored car. But that is how they sell them. Most of the cars they have sold they get too much money for what they are. The entire concept is a ripoff. Chuck
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By carl - 12 Years Ago
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MoonShadow (4/10/2013)
I had to stop watching those crooks! A junk car with any engine that will fit (not even rebuilt) and quick body and paint and new interior is NOT a restored car. But that is how they sell them. Most of the cars they have sold they get too much money for what they are. The entire concept is a ripoff. ChuckIts a so called reality show and like all of them it is a staged show,dont even make good entertainment Carl
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By Y block Billy - 12 Years Ago
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I Had buddys watch that show a year or so ago and just because that idiot said that about they Y they all gave me grief about working on them, But little do they know!
Dorothy asked the tin man how he talked without a brain and his answer was, "there all all kinds of people who talk a lot without a brain"
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By joey - 12 Years Ago
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Y block Billy (4/10/2013)
they all gave me grief about working on them, But little do they know!
I wonder sometimes. I think it's more the case that they do know, but just don't want to admit it, about Fords. Kind of like the story about the emperor's new clothes.
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By pegleg - 12 Years Ago
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most of the Chevy guys i know are more "monkey see, monkey do" types. They believe about everything they read or hear from an "Expert." These are the same guys who ran 2-4's on 265's with Powerglides and 2.73 rear ends. then couldn't figure out why they got blown off by Granny in her straight eight Buick!
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By charliemccraney - 12 Years Ago
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I've been stopping at places on the way to other, more important places and I finally found it at the 8th place.
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By pintoplumber - 12 Years Ago
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I got mine last night, stopped at Walmart in Ephrata PA. Got the last one. Nice article.
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