Been 'loving' the Y-Block since 1969 when I purchased the family car! That car was a '56 Country Sedan with a 292 my father bought in 1957. Later purchased a '57 Fairlane with a 312 and a '57 F-100 with a 272. Fits time I can remember seeing a Y-Block in a dragster in America. Seen a few vids and photos of them from 'down unda'! Nice going Tim McMaster!

Hey, great video, great car, great effort. AND NOT ONE WORD ANYWHERE THAT STARTS OR ENDS IN LS something! Yeah!!!!!!

that's an beyond awesome y block beast love seeing and hearing that bad ass y block terror scat through the quarter mile awesome video

Im Aussie, Y blocks even after all these years are still my favourite engine, yes they not a good performer at high revs but there sound, there tractor bility low down makes driving fun..The best factory head was ECZ-G these help if you can find a set...

I've always loved the sound of the old Y-blocks. Dad had a '55 Ranch Wagon with the 272 and (I believe factory) glass-pack mufflers. Really nice rumble without being too loud. He sold that one and a couple years later, picked up a '54 Mainline 4-door with the 239 and 3-speed - a beater run-around car. It was a good deal quieter, but still had that Y-block rumble. Oh yeah, and nothing quite like the solid-lifter click...

...tri power Y block in a FED...that's pretty cool...

Nice to see somebody runni'n' Ford stuff. Get real tired of seeing nothing but GM plug-n-play stuff. STOP THE CHEVY-ON-FORD VIOLENCE!!!

@willyswagon57

5 жыл бұрын

I agree Ford made some great engines , nothing worst then going to a car show and seeing an old Ford truck ,with a small block Chevy , in it

@1racemate

4 жыл бұрын

@@willyswagon57 400 sbc I bet verry fast

@anonymousanonymous9991

4 жыл бұрын

I get that Ford's aren't cheap but if you're gonna do it do it right ffs

@frigglebiscuit7484

4 жыл бұрын

@@1racemate 400 ford is even faster.

@mickykurtz3384

4 жыл бұрын

@@frigglebiscuit7484 A very underrated engine

I like Fords in General And my older brother had a good running 312 in a 54 Ford 2 door. But that rail looks like it'd be Big Fun!

BEAUTIFUL 58 truck also!

Nice car, and beautiful engine.

atmospheric camera shots gives you the feeling of being there...!

Great video, thanks for this!!

It sounds fantastic.

Looks more like back in the day old pickups pulling sling shot dragsters up to the line.

When you know so much about fords and there engines you listen to hear and hear a 7.3 in the distance that’s how much I listen for engines

Great video tim.

Awesome video......well done!

Excellent.

great looking racecar!

Cool ride ya got there, and it looks like you and your crew are having a great time! So, have you tried the 4.11 gears yet? Curious to see how the car ran with the gear change... thanks for posting this clip!

sure miss that feeling.

Nice filming!

the rear main, also these old Ys like lots of spark advance & for what you are doing lots of compession.but I do not know what you know, good on ya for doing this....

Loaded on a modified boat trailer? I’m guessing. Thanks for posting!!

Y block are a good motor and a great start motor for power. I have a 1955 f100 panel truck with a 239 y block v8. It all stock but I can still burn up my rubber

Dressmaking tape is the budget tyre tape, though a dirt trackers tyre tape work the same.

Thanks. :-)

Sir you have a very cool rail

@mctim64

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You would be suprised to know that there were more ECZ-G heads on 272 pickup truck engines than anything else, they did come on T-birds but to call them "T-bird heads" is kind of missleading. Might as well call them "pickup heads". As for the super charger heads (EDB-D or 471 casting) they are one of the best flowing Y-Block heads but as you said with 82cc chambers they were a bit low on compression. Milling them is not the best way to get the comp. up a dome piston is. .060" is max to remove

A tape measure is not designed for that, circumference = diameter x pi(3.14) thanks.

I could never get my wife to help push my 57, how come yours will???😮

@mctim64

Жыл бұрын

I ask nicely. 😁

Cool

ECZ-G is what is on this engine. :-)

@vicoliver8794

3 жыл бұрын

312 head.

Damn Strombergs......gives a man a reason to hate life when tuning!

@mctim64

3 жыл бұрын

Never had trouble with them myself.

@tomnekuda3818

3 жыл бұрын

@@mctim64 I'm trying to remember whether I had 94's or 97's on my '57 Ford. The main problems I had were finding jets and, if I remember correctly, they required a special tool to change jets. I'm in my 70's now and memory not so hot, so please pardon. The carbs had been mistreated before I got them, too, so a fella has to take that into consideration. Looks like you have them running fine. I guess Summit markets reproduction ones now. My hotrod days are over I guess with this injection on everything and I'm just too old to learn the whole thing. My favorite carbs were Carter AFB's and with a selection of needles, jets, micrometer, step-up springs, and a few beers I could make them run strong and get mileage, too. I could tune Holley's, too but never liked the damn gaskets and the way the power valves worked. Best carbs I ever played with were side-draft DCOE Webers on a cross-ram manifold on a SBC. The whole jet stack could be pulled all together and played with at will. They say Del Ortos are nice, too, but I've never gotten to play with them. With injection now I just put in a programmed power chip and don't mess with them after that. Compared to carbs, not as fun. Kinda like kissing your sister.....gives you something to do but not very exciting. Hang in there. P.S. Nice lookin' 58' Ford pickup you've got movin' you around......I think it's a '58 anyway.

@strattuner

3 жыл бұрын

nah just tune them the same and watch the plugs,old motors old tune,if it don't work sniff it

There's guys getting around 600hp out of these Y blocks this one is o where in the neighborhood

@nitrojoe9 C-4

muito bão

@travellerdogs

5 жыл бұрын

Bit of a pain when it's in an early Ford, hard to work on as you're trying to lean over the fender.

Y blocks had a rear Distributor? WTF?

@mctim64

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

what transmission do you run?

New

I bet these guys don't use their save 4 cents a litre on fuel dockets.

Check out some of my other videos or my web site. They is a link on my youtube page.

These heads were 57 T-bird, 312, but I guess they may have been avalable over the counter, I really don;t know, the 57 super charger heads were also good but to use them with carbs is a lot of trouble, they need to be shaved to boost compression but to get it right they need to be done on a certain angle, so this makes them expensive,You may already know this but reving a 312 can be a problem as to get the Y block to this size meant maching the crank this of course made it weaker especially at.

Why do dragsters never run with a radiator? Why do they not get too hot and seize.

@gregorytimmons4777

5 жыл бұрын

ralph sampson Some iron blocks use an epoxy type block filler in water passages. It's called Rock Block and it fills up the passages and hardens making the block more ridged, stronger and less likely to distort or crack. On some of these cars coolant is in the head cooling passages only. Others may run no coolant. The engines don't run long enough (usually) to be harmed and alcohol burners don't heat up as fast anyway.

@mikemc7704

5 жыл бұрын

They do run with radiators they have them laying flat on the chassis so the air under the car pushes up into it.

@gregorytimmons4777

5 жыл бұрын

Michael McCormick Certain classes do have dragsters running radiators. Super Comp, Super Pro does I believe but other classes such as Altered or Comp Eliminator, Top Dragster, Top Sportsman, Top Alcohol or Top Fuel do not. The ones with radiators drive down the return road to the pits. Those without radiators are towed back by their "chase vehicle."

@mikemc7704

5 жыл бұрын

@@gregorytimmons4777 i am well aware of that i did not say they didn't run a radiator i said most radiators are run Flat with a slight tilt mounted under the car or over the trans. I had a front engine super comp dragster and a rear engine Top Dragster now i am building a nostalgia funny car.

@gregorytimmons4777

5 жыл бұрын

Michael McCormick Ok. So I stand by my comment. I'm aware of what you said. My point was that not all do. Obviously that's why some are towed back down the return road and some are driven. Just trying to answer the guys question.

Those were the days when Ford stood by the long-stroke design while Chevy was notoriously quick with their short-strokes. Chevy won every drag, but Ford dominated 500 mile high end races. Except for Chryslers. The dominated everything.

@curbmassa

4 жыл бұрын

The Pontiacs did real well too.

@frigglebiscuit7484

4 жыл бұрын

chryslers were short stroke too. id say ford ran just fine with chevy. in fact, NHRA screwed both ford and mopar because they were hurting chevy's feelings.

@strattuner

3 жыл бұрын

@@frigglebiscuit7484 you betcha,restrictor plates on them hemi's ,gotta slow them down,i don't do roundy round racing anymore,i want to see all manufacturers competing,just a cubic inch class restriction,that's it

?Well you know it all, I know nothing..but you would be better doing a bit more reserch on this,

OH MY GOD STOP THAT DAMN MUSIC