Uncle Tony's Garage: Basphemy upon the FE

[Ford428CJ]

You never win conversations/arguments like that, so it's best to let them just think that they are right. 

There's so much false stuff floating around the internet and for some reason, it just gets forwarded and passed down for years, by a bunch of guys who think they know what they're talking about.

It’s called the hundredth monkey syndrome far as I’m concerned…. Keeps getting passed around

[Qikbbstang]

FE's and SOHC's in particular obviously had their days in "fuel" racing,  winning spree's of races over the end of the era.  While this winning era of blown nitro marvels was rapidly advancing: Flip-Top funny cars, tube chassis, horsepower was what, you guys tell me?...... I'm thinking Nicholson, Pete Robinson, Connie Kalitta etc see vid below,  would have been happy with far less then 2,000 HP. at said time. What HP was/is a factory FORD FE 427 shortblock capable of sustaining?....
I always LOL at the thought of today's 10,000-12,000HP AA/F motors and how the "tune" of those end of the SOHC era fuel motors for brief fractions of seconds could have lined up with the stars, moon and Gods Of Horsepower to build but a fraction of todays fuel motors output's for a very brief very likely terminal moment ,,,, you know what's 1,000 added HP spike do to a 1,500 HP nitro SOHC motor.    There had to be times when the car went ballistic, tires burned, drivelines snapped and drivers/builders  were left wondering wtf, all with no idea a V8 blown motor on nitro would make 10,000++ HP.

 AI i am thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT4qke9dBMw

[fryedaddy]

i dont care much about the video or u.t. but did you guys know he used to work for a big time race program that ran sohc engines back in the day!

Ok but what did he do, build motors or clean parts ? 

i dont know what his job was but im just saying im surprised he was bad mouthing them after working with them years ago,every engine has its quirks,sbc-stupid dist in the back etc

[Qikbbstang]

In all fairness to Unc-T the evolution of FE blocks (reinforcements/factors/features that strengthen the blocks is vague at best. From my own experience I still find the 427s essentially square cylinder wall thickness impressive for strength/stability of the cylinder walls.  The 427s wall thicknes is typically sonic measured at 12:00, 3:00, 6;00......   Conversely IF bores are sonic'd at 1:30, , 4:30 , 7:30 and 10:30 wall thicknesses can be huge, so thick that if they were at  12:00, 3:00, 6;00 etc the walls would be:  In the context of an internal combustion engine, "siamese bore" refers to a specific configuration where adjacent cylinder bores are directly connected by a solid metal bridge, rather than having a cooling passage between them. This means there's no coolant flow between the cylinders in that area.

Simply the support/thrust of the pistons is enhanced by these thick wall "I beams" 1:30, , 4:30 , 7:30 and 10:30 wall thicknesses
 This is why a questionably thin sonic'd block should not be rejected.  Is this thick wall indexing strengthening viable in other FEs or series motors ?..... I don't have a dam clue.  But it dam well makes it clear FoMoCo didn't have to pay a penny more to casting. 

[Phil Brown]

i dont care much about the video or u.t. but did you guys know he used to work for a big time race program that ran sohc engines back in the day!

Ok but what did he do, build motors or clean parts ? 

i dont know what his job was but im just saying im surprised he was bad mouthing them after working with them years ago,every engine has its quirks,sbc-stupid dist in the back etc

Agreed, but remember he'll say whatever he thinks will generate more views because the views = $$$

[galaxiex]

I removed his channel from my feed.
I refuse to support someone that blatantly creates controversy just to generate clicks.
I’d rather watch honest creative content.

[410bruce]

I removed his channel from my feed.
I refuse to support someone that blatantly creates controversy just to generate clicks.
I’d rather watch honest creative content.

Well said. I unsubbed as well. Kind of a bummer because he comes across as a likeable guy. But it is what it is.

[cjshaker]

I removed his channel from my feed.
I refuse to support someone that blatantly creates controversy just to generate clicks.
I’d rather watch honest creative content.

Same here about 6 months ago, when he just started doing verbal diarrhea videos for clicks, along with about 20 others that have gone the YouTube "popularity contest" way. The detailed content goes away. Seems it only takes a year or 2 till they start acting like celebrities.

I guess he's going to ignore the fact that the SOHC was dominating Top Fuel, by every big name driver in NHRA history at the time; Connie Kalitta, Sneaky Pete, Don the Snake, Dyno Don, Gas Ronda, Jack Chrisman, the list goes on, when parts started drying up and the engine was getting increasingly difficult to maintain in a growing race series. Now, the NHRA bans anything that ISN'T a Chrysler based Hemi design.

[Qikbbstang]

How close is the time line of the SOHC FE in blown fuel racing fading away around when the AA/F motors were freshened between rounds?
I believe in the golden era of SOHC's in fuel motors typically ran the whole weekend w/o pulling heads/pan ?
   

[Sidebite]

They call it the attention economy for a reason... a system where human attention is considered a scarce and valuable resource, and businesses compete to capture and hold people's attention. This is particularly relevant in the digital age, where information is abundant and easily accessible, but our ability to focus on it is limited. Companies use various strategies, especially in marketing and advertising, to attract and maintain user attention, often with the goal of driving engagement and ultimately, profitability.

Uncle Tony is good entertainment but I'm never satisfied with his tech info, and some of it is just wonky or wrong... but dude is killing it with the views and likely making a good living off it. Hard to knock the hustle when he is rocking almost 500K subscribers. The all mighty dollar seems to supersede accurate and factual information in most cases.

[Qikbbstang]

Oldest "trick" in the book:  Debate which car is faster, better or quicker.  Sadly Tony seems to believe today's AA/F engine blocks/heads actually resemble 1950/60s HEMI blocks/heads.
Actually the Ford and Chrysler "Y" style blocks sure look like they were copying each other on main reinforcement/webbing and cross bolting. 
Tony's on drugs to say/see a modern forged billet AA/F block is a Hemi block.......... Tony pulling money out of cars/Youtube is impressive.  I only wonder IF Jay Brown had "YouTube'd THE GREAT FE COMPARO vs posted on Forum wrote a book.

The $$ MONEY $$ of YouTube .............. Recently watched a sharp lady YouTube'r show her YouTube compensation, had about 100k subs and looked to be making about $50,000 a year.  The folks that support themselves via YouTube are talented, hard working and fortunate ...Can't imagine/comprehend:

It's difficult to pinpoint Cleetus McFarland's exact yearly income, but estimates range from the low hundreds of thousands to well over a million dollars. His income is likely derived from a combination of YouTube revenue, merchandise sales, Freedom Factory operations, and other potential business ventures.