My friend JC writes a column for Y-Block magazine called "Yestertech/The Y Files", and the January/February column covered the Engine Masters contest. I found it extremely entertaining! Here are a few excerpts; comments in brackets [] are mine:
"What's this? A Y-Block on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine? It's...it's the end of days, swarms of locusts will soon appear, the sky is falling."
"60 plus years in the making. Yeah, it was extra-citing at first, but was it necessary to point out SIX TIMES [in the Hot Rod article] that Jon Kaase's former Y-Block has a scrub [Chevrolet] intake on it? Last October Jon was quick to point out that the side-by-each vertical ports is not a scrub invention, Olds, Caddy, Studebaker and Lincoln had them years before the Johnnie-come-lately, me-too, look-alike followed suit. It would have been a good thing to repeat what Jon said to educate all the slack-jaws out there."
"Ted Eaton's True Blue Y-Block put on an amazing display of power and torque using a common dual plane single four intake, practically off-the-shelf headers,and readily available parts for the rest of the engine. Royce Brechler bought the Schoenfeld 1.75" stepped to 1.875" headers from Speedway and I welded on the Y-Block flanges. Piece of cake and very reasonable."
"Ted's Y-Block, without the the sex-change, produced 92% of what "Caitlin - Y" produced and that was with a last minute unfortunate need to use a cam intended for rpm well past the mandated 6,000. Horsepower per cubic inch: Ted - 1.497, Jon - 1.460."
Lots more good stuff in that column, and also in the magazine. In case anyone is interested, Y-Block Magazine has been around for 23 years, US subscriptions are $33.50 for six issues per year, contact yblockmag@yahoo.com for more details.
