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This video randomly made it into my youtube feed, about a guy who decided to build a cool old 1962 Ford 4×4 pickup, using Ford's 1st-ever overhead valve V-8, called the "Y-block", due to its deep bottom end skirting that provided extra rigidity and strength to the crankshaft and main bearing area. This engine was fairly small and wasn't particularly known as a high performance engine. But ^this one is is making ridiculous power, without blowing up! Compare it with a common Chevy 4 bolt main 350(5.7L): The 350 is said to be durable enough to handle 600-700hp. But this smaller, older 292(4.7L) Ford engine is "handling" that much, plus another 300-400hp on top, and they actually use it to haul trailers!
These guys built their little 292 cubic inch(4.7L) Y-block to produce approx 1,000 street-legal horsepower, and over 1,050ft/lbs of torque, with twin turbos, modern electronic fuel injection, but while still using it's stock steel crank and it's original cast iron cylinder heads(ported)! They regularly drive this truck, pulling either a trailer or their chassis dyno to various car shows, and according to their comments, it was still running great 2+ years after this video was produced, without blowing up!
Here they chassis dyno test it to 721hp and nearly 800ft/lbs torque at the rear wheels! The trans and differential absorb at least 20% of the power, so it's over 1,000 of both at the crank!
End info: The Y-block was replaced by the FE engine family in 1964, after just 10 years, because it was limited in size, and Ford needed a big block V-8 that could efficiently be produced in displacement size up to 428cu/in(7.1L). The FE engine was that replacement. Unknown to many, the FE is ALSO a Y-block design....
These guys built their little 292 cubic inch(4.7L) Y-block to produce approx 1,000 street-legal horsepower, and over 1,050ft/lbs of torque, with twin turbos, modern electronic fuel injection, but while still using it's stock steel crank and it's original cast iron cylinder heads(ported)! They regularly drive this truck, pulling either a trailer or their chassis dyno to various car shows, and according to their comments, it was still running great 2+ years after this video was produced, without blowing up!
Here they chassis dyno test it to 721hp and nearly 800ft/lbs torque at the rear wheels! The trans and differential absorb at least 20% of the power, so it's over 1,000 of both at the crank!
End info: The Y-block was replaced by the FE engine family in 1964, after just 10 years, because it was limited in size, and Ford needed a big block V-8 that could efficiently be produced in displacement size up to 428cu/in(7.1L). The FE engine was that replacement. Unknown to many, the FE is ALSO a Y-block design....
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