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Guess I should scroll down before jumping in after another half day
(12 hours) -  I still want to know if this is approved by NHRA !
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Help...im stuck in this thread and can't get out.... New Ford Engine Unveiled
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LOL..I hear ya. *cue Twilight Zone theme song*
Appears there was a merge..unbeknownst to me.
I'll delete mine.
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
john medlen must be a ford guy , all the pics ive seen of this motor have him next to it no coil no bernie . I hope coil is still a hemi guy
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10-30-2007, 11:26 PM
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
My brother & sister-in-law would LOVE that in their '62 Falcon! 
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
No repairing these blocks if they lose a rod or lifter I guess.
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
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john medlen must be a ford guy , all the pics ive seen of this motor have him next to it no coil no bernie . I hope coil is still a hemi guy
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I think John Medlen was the one that helped "develop" (if you can call putting Ford stickers on a HEMI "develop") this motor, not Coil. Could be wrong, though.
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
The rules don't allow it anymore but there are Ford engines available ...
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
Bet this is really setting off Walt Austin. Wasn't he building a new engine a while back and NHRA put the halt to it?
After all the money & time JFR has spent this year to make F/C safer, NHRA doesn't dare stop their new engine. John might just start his own association!
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
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Bet this is really setting off Walt Austin. Wasn't he building a new engine a while back and NHRA put the halt to it?
After all the money & time JFR has spent this year to make F/C safer, NHRA doesn't dare stop their new engine. John might just start his own association!
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I believe that the bore spacing on the Austin motor was different from the NHRA "Spec" motor criteria which was based on the Hemi. This new "Ford" engine has the specified bore spacing.
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
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I believe that the bore spacing on the Austin motor was different from the NHRA "Spec" motor criteria which was based on the Hemi. This new "Ford" engine has the specified bore spacing.
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crank to cam center
valve angle
sounds more like bottom end upgrades and JFR has already been doing their own heads for a while.
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
Those valve cover covers look totally pointless and in the way to me...
But, what do I know, I',m just a sanitary engineer (not really)...
Eh - looks like something Ford would do.
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
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I believe that the bore spacing on the Austin motor was different from the NHRA "Spec" motor criteria which was based on the Hemi. This new "Ford" engine has the specified bore spacing.
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The Walt Austin motor was based on the actual Boss spec (5" Bore Center?) which I believe was originally approved by Glendora, then disallowed when they were ready to run it. I think Coil was quoted as saying that it would've obsoleted all the current nitro motors if it had been allowed.
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
I'm willing to bet that John Force, and Ford got it approved.
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Re: New Ford Engine Unveiled
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also,
crank to cam center
valve angle
sounds more like bottom end upgrades and JFR has already been doing their own heads for a while.
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they been doin most everything in house with their engine stuff.....i quote john "Coil made me build a $25,000 expansion to build nuts and bolts I can go down to the hardware store and buy for $.10 a piece"
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