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Started by CobraJoe, 2018-06-05 19:29

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hiball3985

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1957 Ranchero
1960 F100 Panel
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hemidave

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'32 Ford roadster/49 Merc flathead, '39 Ford conv, '54 Ford sedan,  '56 Sunliner AC PW, '57 "F" Sunliner, '66 Fairlane 390 4spd conv, '76 F150 390 C6 plow truck.

CobraJoe

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

hiball3985

Built to haul
JIM:
HAPPY HOUR FOR ME IS A GOOD NAP
The universe is made up of electrons, protons, neutrons and morons.
1957 Ranchero
1960 F100 Panel
1966 Mustang

djfordmanjack

#1549
Joe, I didn't know they had manure pumps for mobile dynos back then. :003:
Cammer must have smoked it badly.

wondering if the SB even had enough torque to crank it. there's probably another one on the other side not visible in pic.:002:

hiball3985

Weren't the Gurney-Eagles push rod motors??
JIM:
HAPPY HOUR FOR ME IS A GOOD NAP
The universe is made up of electrons, protons, neutrons and morons.
1957 Ranchero
1960 F100 Panel
1966 Mustang

terry_208

Quote from: hiball3985 on 2019-03-25 08:44
Weren't the Gurney-Eagles push rod motors??

I have no idea but found this:  https://www.museumofamericanspeed.com/gurneyeagleford.html


I can't get it to come up as a link.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

 
Terry

John Palmer

The best part of the dragster photo is it shows the early starter roller's they developed to start dragsters at the starting line.  They did not have the removeable electric starters they use today.  Up until this time they used push cars, pushed the cars down the strip, manually turned them around, pushed them up to speed in the opposite lane, fired the motors (while facing the starting line), drove them running behind the starting line, turned them around again, and pulled them to the line for the run.

Saying it was slightly unsafe, is an understatement.

It's a very cool photo, forget the engine attached to the rollers.

hiball3985

It looks like a ram horn type of exhaust so it's probably a Chevy  :005:
JIM:
HAPPY HOUR FOR ME IS A GOOD NAP
The universe is made up of electrons, protons, neutrons and morons.
1957 Ranchero
1960 F100 Panel
1966 Mustang

hemidave

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'32 Ford roadster/49 Merc flathead, '39 Ford conv, '54 Ford sedan,  '56 Sunliner AC PW, '57 "F" Sunliner, '66 Fairlane 390 4spd conv, '76 F150 390 C6 plow truck.

mustang6984

Quote from: hiball3985 on 2019-03-25 11:52
It looks like a ram horn type of exhaust so it's probably a Chevy  :005:

Kind of an insult to be starting a quality race car with a junker motor.   :burnout:
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CobraJoe

#1556
Quote from: hiball3985 on 2019-03-25 08:44
Weren't the Gurney-Eagles push rod motors??

Yes, 289 small blocks:

"Gurney Weslake V8 Engine

Dan Gurney approached Weslake with the idea of building a V8 engine with alloy heads based on the Ford Fairlane 289 cid block. He had made sketches of his thoughts on this and took them to show Harry Weslake at Rye in England.

Drawings for the new Cylinder Heads and other special parts were drawn up by Harry and his staff at Rye. Here they designed the now world renowned Gurney Weslake Cylinder head and racing engine components. The heads had the inlet ports inclined at nine degrees as opposed to the standard twenty and were round in shape. The combustion chambers were of the Weslake pattered heart shaped (a Weslake Trademark)

The first Heads were made for testing purposes and cast by Alcoa and tested by John Miller at Dan Gurneys All American Racing in the USA. These were the Mark I type.
Modifications were made following the initial testing and then further heads were made in England of the Mark II type at the Weslake works at Rye. Further testing took place in the USA a feature of this being racing at Riverside in 1965.

In 1966 the Mark III version of the Gurney Weslake head had been developed with alterations to make assembly and maintenance easier to carry out. Further development work brought about the Mark IV version of the Head lighter in weight with narrower rocker covers and an inclined carburetor mounting towards the center of the engine. These heads were developed for use with the Ford 305 cid engine and enabled Dan to win at Riverside in 1967. More famously these engines were used to power the Ford GT40 to win at Le Mans Twice, first in 1968 and again in 1969.

In 1968 Dan Gurney set up manufacturing of these heads in England to a modified design for passenger road car use. He was hoping for a contract to supply these Cylinder Heads to Ford or Lincoln-Mercury and believing that an order was coming started manufacture of a very large batch of castings. These had the detuned combustion chambers and were of a budget design and also cast in LM8 at the Airplane and Motor Foundry. See photos for comparison of some of the differences. These could be machined with different size ports and or valve sizes to the full racing heads and some of the internal passage ways are of differing sizes. In the event no manufactures took up the option to purchase of fit these heads as a standard fitment leaving Dan with an enormous stockpile of Road car cylinder heads. Many of these were converted to as near race car spec as the Gurney factory could make them and fitted to Indy cars. None of these heads were fitted to GT40's at the time. All GT40 Heads were of the William Mills foundry and of the higher grade castings  with the Full Race combustion Chambers porting and passage ways.

The Airplane and Motor cast Heads were usually branded as Gurney Eagle although some will by a matter of time have been retro fitted with Gurney Weslake Rocker covers."


When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

CobraJoe

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

CobraJoe

#1558

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded at how much he had learned in the last seven years!

'96 Bronco,
'39 Ford Coupe,
'57 Fairlane,
'68 Torino GT
'15 F150,
'17 Escape,

rmk57

 Same roller startup machine as the Westlake / Gurney dragster.....  apparently from Lions dragstrip.


Randy

1957 Ford Custom
1970 Boss 429