wayfarerstranger Posted June 17, 2009 Report Posted June 17, 2009 crazy looking engine exhaust ?? Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 17, 2009 Report Posted June 17, 2009 I believe these setups were common to trucks of the era across most major manufactuers lineup Quote
wayfarerstranger Posted June 17, 2009 Author Report Posted June 17, 2009 can you tell me anything else i`ve never seen one ?? Quote
Dodgeb4ya Posted June 17, 2009 Report Posted June 17, 2009 It's an old Ford Y block engine-single exhaust. One time I reached in to grab the pipe to pull myself up and- yep burned the hell oput of my hand-stupid! Bob Quote
Dennis Hemingway Posted June 17, 2009 Report Posted June 17, 2009 This is from Off-Road Adventures, About the Furd Y Block Engine Dennis:cool: The 292 V8 was long in the tooth when it finally left the Ford truck line in 1964. The basic design had a proven reliability record over about 10 years in service. One of the unusual features of this engine was the crossover pipe on front of the engine. It fed the left manifold into the right, which then had to carry the flow of both banks out the pipe. This no doubt limited upper rpm power with lots of exhaust restriction. A HD version was available for larger trucks that cranked out ten more hp than the standard engine. Quote
40phil41 Posted June 17, 2009 Report Posted June 17, 2009 (edited) My 1950 Ford flathead V8 (my very first car) had a front cross-over pipe like that. "The left side exhaust manifold exhausted to the front, where a crossover pipe took the exhaust to the forward end of the right side manifold, in turn exhausting to a single pipe at the rear." Phil Edited June 17, 2009 by 40phil41 Quote
Mr.O.Hove Posted June 17, 2009 Report Posted June 17, 2009 What i see is a Ford motor with single exhsust as used on early o.h.v. car & pickup:rolleyes: Quote
Don Coatney Posted June 18, 2009 Report Posted June 18, 2009 In High School I had a 56 furd 292 with that front crossover pipe. I removed it one day and drove cross town to my girlfriends house. I never made it as a state tropper pulled me over. I told him I was going after repair parts and he let me go. It sure was noisy. Quote
RobertKB Posted June 18, 2009 Report Posted June 18, 2009 Why would Ford:eek: do that? Wouldn't it have been easier to run the manifold down like on the other side? Money saving? Poor engineering? Quote
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