FE Power Cylinder Heads

[cammerfe]

The first supercharged car I drove on a daily basis was a '54 Ford with a 312 swapped in. I used the same blower on my then-new '65 Mustang. My first turbo car came along in the '70s and I don't believe I'll do another performance car of any sort without a pair of turbos.

An n/a engine that makes 800 HP will easily enough make thrice that amount with a pair of hairdryers attached. e85 is readily available and works very well with a bit of spray in addition to the turbos---you see where I'm going. Thus my comment regarding block strength.

(The engine in the Lincoln LS I used to set the E/F Competition Coupe/Sedan record in ECTA racing is a Jaguar design---Ford owned Jaguar at the time---and the aluminum block was  designed with water jackets that only extend down the cylinder walls a bit past where the ring-pack sets when the piston is at TDC. Daily driver vehicles are commonly found with the bottoms of the water jackets silted full. There is no contribution in heat extraction from this area and no support from that silted-in area either. Why not fill it in at the foundry?)

KS

[jayb]

Couldn't resist posting a couple of teaser pics of my cylinder head in process on the CNC machine.  I'm waiting for some tooling to arrive in the next couple days, and working on another fixture I need to put in the spark plug holes, but I should be able to have the machining programs and the first head done by the end of the week.  I will post pictures of the finish-machined head, and also some pictures of the first intake manifold castings, next weekend - Jay

[machoneman]

Looks very cool Jay! 

[Chrisss31]

Very cool!!

[e philpott]

Beautiful

[fryedaddy]

they look like there going to flow bigtime.Jay,i hope they are a big success.they sure do look impressive.

[WConley]

You've got a lot of work in those fixtures.

Best of luck bringing this cool project home!

- Bill

[jayb]

You're not kidding Bill, the main plate of the fixture was a $550 block of stress-relieved, cast aluminum.  Took me almost an entire week to machine that...

[Ghoughton]

Looking fantastic! I absolutely love the “no compromise” exhaust

[bsprowl]

I love it.  I want a set so bad...

[feadam]

jay
will these heads require special pistons?

[jayb]

Probably, unless you run a very mild cam.  The valves are moved to a better location in the cylinder, and the valve angle has been changed.  A normal FE piston valve relief won't match up with the valve location on these heads.

[cammerfe]

My tongue is hangin' out so far it's left a spitty spot on my shirt front.

KS

[fryedaddy]

man those exhaust ports look big.what size header tube will these heads use

[jayb]

At the outlet they are about 1-7/8" diameter, so a 2" OD header tube should be a perfect fit.