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Y block Billy
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Have you sold him a set of heads John? I see in the rules he can not make a billet set.
 55 Vicky & customline 58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100 59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?
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John Mummert
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Wrong! We have not sold him a set of heads because we don't have any in stock, Right!. We have sent him a set of heads that had machining defects to inspect and play with. Obviously we have months to go before the competition and was more than happy to get an off pair.
http://ford-y-block.com 20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico 
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Y block Billy
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Even an off spec set of heads, he can probably do wonders with them, unless they were that bad!
 55 Vicky & customline 58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100 59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?
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Ted
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MoonShadow (4/5/2015)
So the available high test wouldn't do it? That makes things a bit harder to find a "buyer". Here’s the spec sheet for the VP101 fuel that will be used at the EMC for the vintage engines. In my case, the MON number (97) is the number which the engine would be built around. Specification Sheet: VP101 (Typical Values) Specific Gravity: .713 @ 60°F Color: Orange Motor Octane: 97 R+M/2: 101 RON: 105 RVP: 6.5 Oxygenated: Yes Oxidation Stability (min.) 1440+ Distillation: 10% evap @ 144°F 50% evap @ 208°F 90% evap @ 211°F E.P. @ 250°F Availability: Sealed Drums Rev 03/13 The VP101 fuel falls between pump gasoline and a real racing fuel. As mentioned earlier, to optimize an engine for this fuel simply makes it a tough sell. In looking through my parts selection, there are enough pieces here to build a nice 540 HP pump gasoline Y and still have an engine that can be repurposed after the competition. One of the items that is going to be the most difficult to get is going to be the SFI flywheel. In the previous competitions, I used a Y crankshaft that had a FE crankshaft flange which simplified the flywheel selection. The crankshaft I currently have here does have the Y crankshaft flange so I’ll be looking at remachining an existing SFI flywheel from another application to fit the Y engine if I cannot find a ready to go flywheel that is commercially available.
 Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)
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Ted
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Having seen what Jon Kasse has done in the past with any engine, there’s no doubt in my mind that Jon will be quite successful with a Y entry. I’ve had some very good discussions with him in the past and he takes a very different approach to getting power from the engines he works on. Those different approaches obviously work quite well. Jon does manage to exploit those loopholes in the rules that are ultimately closed up the following year so he does push the envelope with his engine builds. The dual tube headers on the Coyote engine are a good example. With someone of Jon’s caliber using the Ford Y as the basis as a EMC engine build, this potentially opens the door to some other Y parts being produced. A new big bore block and reasonably priced stroker crankshafts becoming commercially available would be at the top of my own list.
 Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)
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Cliff
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Hi, the motor for my dragster is using a sbc flex plate with a adapter, would this not work for for EMC?
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speedpro56
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I think it's great that Jon's is taking the Y Block on. It's another notch for our favorite engine and if a few more jump in it can't get much better than that!
-Gary Burnette-
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Cliff (4/7/2015)
Hi, the motor for my dragster is using a sbc flex plate with a adapter, would this not work for for EMC? Must be a SFI approved standard transmission flywheel for the UNOH dyno hookup. While I have the options here on my own dyno to use flexplates in certain cases, these are not approved for the EMC competition.
 Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)
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DryLakesRacer
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When I ran out of ways to make horsepower with my 7 port stock GMC 6 I went to Burns Stainless to have a header designed. It took them quite a time especially when you are working with single and shared exhaust ports. I used their design and ran 7 mph faster at El Mirage Dry lake and 5 mph at Bonneville. There is definately HP in exhaust systems and oil pans. This should be fun to watch.
56 Vic, B'Ville 200 MPH Club Member, So Cal.
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John Mummert
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Looking at the specs on that fuel I don't think any compression you want to run up 13.0:1 would be a problem. The specific gravity is light enough to be leaded. Most unleaded fuels do not get lighter than .74 scecific gravity. Its definitley not your typical unleaded formulation. It is also oxegynated. Some of the most powerful compression tolerant fuel vp sells is MR-12 oxegynated. The motor octane on that fuel is 87 and capable of sustaining 15.0:1 compression. Its a strange thing but M&R octane are tested at 600-900 rpm. Oxegynated fuels octane threshehold seems to rise faster than normal fuel as the rpm goes up. Correction octane testing is done at a much lower rpm than I thought 600-900 rpm
http://ford-y-block.com 20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico 
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