My friend Paulo Lisot, from our Galaxie Club down here, went to a car show, in southern Brasil, State of Rio Grande do Sul, and found a '74 Galaxie LTD Landau with a twin turbo setup. He sent me a picture, and the thing looks mean. has a Bosh throtle body, a hand made intake, and no distributor.








Túlio Lazzaroni "FORD", Florianópolis SC Brasil.

'74 Ford Galaxie 500 292 V8

'82 Ford Galaxie Landau 302 V8

'98 Chevrolet S10 4.3 V6

'01 Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec

Guy that did that has some talent. Beautifull job. Wonder how it runs? Mike

1956 Fairlane Victoria (ORREO)

 

Overlooking Beautiful Rimrock AZ

I would like to know that too. From what I heard, this car will be subject of a magazine article. Hope they do some 1/4 mile runs, or at least take it to a dino.

Túlio Lazzaroni "FORD", Florianópolis SC Brasil.

'74 Ford Galaxie 500 292 V8

'82 Ford Galaxie Landau 302 V8

'98 Chevrolet S10 4.3 V6

'01 Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec

Thanks for sharing.  The distributorless ignition is interesting and would like to hear more details on that.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Wow Sweet job!

Question, Didn't they use the phase 2 heads down there? these look like our style with the stacked ports, aren't the phase 2 style more like windsor heads?

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?

From the photo I can see that the heads are the conventional stacked port style. The fabricated intake has only 2 runners on each head instead of 4. What is interesting is I can see the injector fuel rails feeding what looks like one injector on each runner meaning a total of 4 injectors instead of 8. Also the injector is positioned high up the runner at the plenum. This is unusual for multiport injection as the best position is as close to the intake valve as possible. I don't see a MAF sensor at the Throttle Body so I suspect that this is a version of the speed density system as opposed to MAF/Multiport/Sequential injection. The DIS is probably a solution to fabricating a distributor that would work in the Yblock. How to keep the fuel/timing tuned with the Turbos must be a chore. Very clean and talented work.

57 Black Tbird 312/auto

It may be that there is a second set of injectors under the plenum, there seems to be room.  The iginition modules are located on the firewall and seem to be some kind of "wasted spark" since one coil seems to be powering 2 plugs.  The trigger for it could be on the harmonic damper a'la Finnish practice.

Doug T

The Highlands, Louisville, Ky.

Well guys, as soon as I have some more info on this engine I will post it.

One thing is sure, there is no Fase II, because it only was made in Argentina. Here in Brasil, we always had the US castings, only with the foundry name changet to "SPF", and the lettering "ordem de ignição 15486372" on the intake manifold. My intake manifold is marked CF, for Cleveland Foundry. I bought it at a swap meet, because mine had a little crack. My cam is a Isky, pistons are Clevite, oil pump is Melling, so, all US made parts fit the Brazilian Y-Block, but not the Argentine Y-Block, just because the Fase II engine.

That coils are from a Fiat four cilinder engine, that uses two coils instead of a distrubutor. The intake was hand made, and the four injectors are the "booster" injectors. The throtle body is a Bosh from a Chevrolet Silverado, that here used the GM 250 six with fuel injection.

Túlio Lazzaroni "FORD", Florianópolis SC Brasil.

'74 Ford Galaxie 500 292 V8

'82 Ford Galaxie Landau 302 V8

'98 Chevrolet S10 4.3 V6

'01 Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec

Nice!



What is the engine control system?

What I see on picture, it's not the Ford EEC-IV, so it must some aftermarket thing?





By the way, offtopic again... Is there any EEC-IV controlled Y-Blocks on streets?

It cannot be hard thing to do.

Just cut all sensors and wirings from some Mustang and you can use Tweecer or something to tune it right. Engines are almost samesized and then there is Ford on your Ford.


Hyvinkää, FI

Tulio; Interesting photo, thanks for posting it.. Just for the record, what year was the last for Y-Blocks in Brazil?

Paul