What is the COOLEST Looking V8 you would have in your HotRod

Its only 25 years old, but this all-alluminum beast

 

427 SOHC or if it would fit, a Ford GAA DOHC, 1100 cid, all aluminum V8.

Steve

 

You got my vote
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God I love this thread.

 

I have a mild mannered 348 6x2 and I love the sound the look and how she cruises.

 

hopefully everybody hates me - I wish I had an old Audi 5cylinder 20V Turbo in my project. I love those audi engines. They sound great and you can run 'em with lots of boost

 

i'm a big fan of flathead fords and pretty much all first generation g.m. ohv stuff especially early pontiacs.

 

Any pictures of what they look like?

 

Tony I agree....and you almost never see either of them.

 

Dan Woods...has my dream job...riding around in others peoples hot rods watching other people work and getting paid big bucks to do it!!

 

I've looked at that engine; I was seriously considering one for one stage of my avatar project. They really sound good with big cams and the sort of exhaust they never seem to have.

It would have been a 20V Turbo head on a South African 2.6 Microbus block, but I'd have lost the hair dryer and EFI in favour of a fairly large-capacity Roots blower breathing through a 2" SU.

Not particularly pretty, though.

Pure fantasy, for a thin-fendered rod (speaking of SUs)? How about a reverse-flow Nailhead, with two SU's either side and bundles of snakes out the top? That'd look cool, but I think the heads would take some doing.

 

well #1 A 425 Nailhead with 3 carbs

#2 a 429 (maybe a boss, I think some T-birds had that engine non boss) dual Quad. P.S WTF is with those valve covers

 

I already got mine thanks

 

As far as V8 engines go, one that might be a little tricky to put into a hot rod, but which would be absolutely guaranteed to draw a crowd is the one used in the 1964 Lotus type 34 Indy cars.

A description of the engine: "four-cam 4195 cc (255ci) DOHC Ford V8 with Hilborn fuel injection, producing 425 bhp"

Later versions of the same engine used in the Type 38 (also an Indy car) eventually put out more like 500 hp.

Not very streetable, perhaps, but look at the way that thing looked in the car! It had the headers coming out between the cylinder banks so they could alternate the primaries into the collectors according to the firing order of the engine. That meant each collector had some pipes from each bank. The injector stacks fed down between the cams on the top of each head, which is why they come out at the weird angle they do.

And it's a FORD engine. Ford in a Ford! That works for me.



(Okay, routing the exhaust might be a bit awkward, but ... )

 

I found a better image of that Lotus Type 34, but it is too big to attach so I'll just link the image and the page it comes from.

Lotus Type 34

Racing Cars from the Prisma Collection

 

Big coin ! but everytime i work on one of these , i want one for my coupe......hey it's still traditional !!!

 

This caddy 500 thats in my tudor sedan right now ps the vehicles in the backround are my landlords cars not mine!!

 

Not very practical but here is my personal favorite.

A blown 392 comes a close second.

 

Ok, ts3x65mph. I'll bite. What the hell was that?

 

Hey thats cheating! Thats a V12 but it is kool all the same. Sad they're only good for 275 hp. I still love em though.

 

Heres one for ya!

 

Ball study Hemi. But if I had to go SBC, it would have to be OHC.

 

What KIND of SBChebie?

That intake looks uncannily like the old Smokey inspired STR. I always liked the way those looked.

 

Amc

 

Nice eye candy.....

 

I just picked up one of these today.

 

Although not at all traditional I would say one of these... A local old timer has two still in crates from very low millage 70's Ferraris.

 

Dual Quad Packard Patrician V8. Bar none!

 

Biggest little 241 you ever saw?

 

Me too, a dual quad 409 would look fantastic in my '58 PU...