Hey Jay how about a v12 SOHC FE?

[BH107]

Go BIG or go home!!! 1100 cubic inches, 4 valve DOHC, and its all aluminum!

[thatdarncat]

Love the Ford GAA tank engine! Lots of info on the web. Here's a link. Maybe when Jay gets bored with the FE cammers?

http://www.fordgaaengine.com/

[jayb]

Aluminum or not, I'll bet that thing weighs a ton!  Unbelievable underhood appeal, though...

[fe66comet]

I like the reverse flow interesting.

[BH107]

The GAA website list them at 900+ pounds when stripped down for non-tank use.

I like this one with twin 6-71 blowers and injected!


And Jay, the biggest problem is it won't fit under the hood!

[fe66comet]

It looks like a Miata with a 600 cube Ford Motorsport engine LOL you better have good brakes.

[rockittsled]

Yes, this is an old thread, but....  I remembered this from long ago and that it was made by modifying the sand casting cores of the 4.6l.  I seem to remember that Sean Hyland may have offered this engine from core molds he had made.

http://www.mustangandfords.com/featured-vehicles/138-0402-boss-351-v10-mustang/

With all of the projects that Jay has on his table, he could use one more  to create a V12, right?

[fe66comet]

He just can't seem to get enough FE stuffed in the standard Ford block LOL.

[rockittsled]

Can you imagine the look on Freiberger's face when Jay shows up for Dragweek with a "Gas Rhonda" type long nose Mustang with a 12 or 16 cyl SOHC in the Unlimited class?! 

[cobracammer]

There is actually a Ford GAA engine up for sale on Ebay!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ford-GAA-GAF-V8-Sherman-Tank-Engine-Blocks-and-Parts-/261539470162?pt=Other_Vehicle_Parts&hash=item3ce4f79b52&vxp=mtr

[65er]

Looks kind of silly in that mustang, but it just might be a nice fit in a big ole Galaxie.  Only $7000 buy it now, whatta ya think?  lol

[fe66comet]

Ford did build supercharged radial air craft engines in the second world war, they were rated at over 3000 HP. Basically they were spin off war contracted Pratt- Whitney  engines. I actually saw some running examples at some air shows, huge fire breathing monsters. Kinda intimidating to say the least LOL.

[Barry_R]

We did build a couple of V-12 modular engines at Ford, by sectioning and welding 4.6L blocks and heads.  All that was needed was custom cranks and cams.

One ended up in the GT90 show car, and the other one got stuffed into a Town Car!  Engine management was done by a pair of modfied Thunderbird EEC-IV ECU's, so essentially the V-12 was tuned as a pair of V-6 engines.

Upper management killed that project off pretty quickly, once they found out what the "Welding Feasibility Study" really was LOL!

I remember that one.  Saw the cranks at Kominski's old "Precision Crankshaft Grinding" shop in Taylor and I was "WTF is that???"

[chris401]

Getting off topic, remember what late 60's early 70's car had had the normal located front engine and the custom back seat engine?

Edit: I did find lots of custom jobs and the twin engine Hurst Olds but not the one that I remembered. I saw it at an Autorama and in car mags on the quarter mile. May have been a show car with a couple of runs on it.

[fe66comet]

I had a VW bug with a GM turbo 425 transaxle and Buick 455 in it. I robbed the trans from a Toronado and bolted a Buick I had laying around to it, it killed the car when the fuel pump failed and decided an engine in the passenger compartment was a bad idea LOL. It at the time was cool to hear the four barrels kick in while running down the track, it still makes me giggle to think how stupid it was.