Hey Jay---
Has there been any recent update regarding the  cross-over injection to go with your heads and other top-of-engine parts? Perhaps I've missed something, but the subject is of enduring interest.
Thanx

KS

I just got sent a picture of what, from the rad hose placement is an 8BA engine. The picture is cropped so the stuff around the edges doesn't show, but an intake manifold with 3 Stromberg 97s is obvious. The zinger is that what looks like a Vertex mag is sticking up in the back where one would expect to see a fuel pump.

Have any of you seen late model flatty with the ignition back against the firewall?

KS

I have the sort of inquiring mind that seeks all sorts of arcane data. I read recently that there is a CNC-ported version of the 460A 385 head that flows 560 CFM+ at 28 inches.

Previous explorations had me thinking that the 'Fuel' hemi head used in Top Fuel racing would flow about 500 CFM at 28 inches in NA form..

Is the 560 CFM conceivably accurate? And if it's true, have you any idea as to the potential flow of a Kaase 'B9' head when fully developed? The projected use of the B9 would be in a turbo'd fuel application. But just how good IS the B9?

Any input would be  VERY much appreciated.

KS

Hi Jay---

I haven't talked much about it much, anywhere, but I'm at work on the beginnings of a Land Speed car. It'll be based on an aftermarket version of the '06 Ford GT.

When you have a chance, could you measure the transaxle length from the back face of the block to the centerline of the half-shafts on your car? This measurement will make it possible to ascertain possible alternatives available to me. M2K is using a Ricardo, I believe, but I'll be trying to get close to twice the claimed 2500 HP they're putting out. It's been suggested that it'll be necessary to use a combo of slipper clutch in a can and some Lenco pieces attached to a Top Fuel center section.

The measurement I asked for will give me some idea as to where I'll have to start splicing.

Thanks much!!!

KS

A friend, (a GM guy), asked me today where'd be the best place to advertise a deceased-friend's '95 Mustang Convert. His wife wants to sell it. Says clean, well maintained, etc. Any suggestions?

KS

I went to the builder yesterday to talk about my next project. One of the questions I was ready to ask him was about his carbon-fibre body option.

When I walked into his work area, directly in front of me was the car I had in mind---complete with a carbon-fibre body. I fell in love. My thinking now goes THIS way. I had intended to paint the car a pearl white with a candy Guardsman Blue middle stripe. The problem is that doing so, of course, will cover up the trick carbon-fibre. The builder told me that the car setting there was going to be 'cleared' and polished. That will, of course, be glorious.

Now the question---Is there a paint transparent enough to stick to my original white/blue combination and still show the carbon-fibre weave?

Any comments much appreciated. (I mostly use a 'rattle-can' for paint!)

KS

Brent, I have massive respect for your engine-building ability and your knowledge in that direction. And I always look eagerly toward what you have to say when it comes to such an area.

I, on the other hand, have built no more than a couple-of-dozen engines in my whole life, for myself, and participated in a few dozen more while helping other people. (That couple-of-dozen includes several flatheads, 'back-when'. One of them powered the family car, and one my '34 Five Window.) You have vastly more engine experience than I do.

On the other hand, I spent time during college working at various tasks at T&C Livonia. At one point I built Torque converters. We were supposed to make 800 per shift and worked seven days a week for several months at a time. Altogether, I probably helped make several hundred thousand. As a curious college kid, I learned all the jobs in the department. And since I was also racing at the time, I got to know many of the engineering folk as well. I learned about torque converters.

Since we last visited the subject, I called several of the manufacturers of performance torque converters. Talking with their tech folk, I asked if the words'stall-converter' were much in use in their facility. Depending on who was on the other end of the line, I got more-or-less polite derision. The words don't seem to appear anywhere in any manufacturer's printed material nor are they in regular use by the personnel.

Talking about a 'stall-converter' is just as incorrect as insisting on always speaking of a 'metallic engine' in the given contexts. The use of 'stall' is just as useless as 'metallic' or insisting on talking about a 'cloth shirt'.

I let your put-down dismissiveness go for the last couple of weeks in order to see if I'd just forget it. I haven't---nor the comments from others. A display of ignorance is never seemly, nor is attempting to poke fun at someone who says, "Hey, wait a minute, guys. That isn't right..."

Ken Sheffer