expect to finally see the Y-block offering and an old school 6x2 for SBC.? the new 94 does look sharp though.







This ain't no L-Kamino!

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.

Best regards,



Paul Menten

Meridian, Idaho

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.

"The Master Cylinder"

Enjoying life at the beach in SOCAL

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.


Lawrenceville, GA

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.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

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.


Lawrenceville, GA

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.

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?

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.

http://ford-y-block.com 

20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico

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.

57 Black Tbird 312/auto

Mark:

kLandrover bought the right to the aluminum buick V8 of '61-'63, if I'm not mistaken, they still use it.

John

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"