How do I make a 460 look traditional?

I totally agree with you ! What is real anymore ?

 

The more you say the more I believe YOU don't get it!!![/QUOTE]

Yea, maybe you're right. It seems that a lot of folks are embracing the idea that if you can make something look like something else it's traditional and if it looks like what it is it's not,and I don't get that! Any one have a set of those valve covers that tried to make a small block Chevy look like a flathead. Or maybe it was to make a flathead look like a GMC 6.

 

I hate to see a thread like this with all the less than constructive remarks. If you only come out to bash a guy, FUCK OFF.

He asked how to dress his 460 in a traditional manner, he didn't ask how to make people believe he has a flathead. Maybe he should have asked how to make it look period correct to drag racing circa 19?? or road racing circa 19??.

I'm ready for the traditional assholes to crawl back under a rock. Hot rodding is using what you have and if that is 10 years newer than anything seen on the dry lakes in 1958, SO WHAT? I absolutely love a car that is constructed entirely of parts only available before WW II, but I also appreciate a similarly styled car that has a not-so-old powertrain when the builder goes out of his way to keep it from leaping out and announcing that it doesn't belong. You can build a car with practical parts that pays homage to an earlier period. That does not make you a liar, ashamed or a fool.

You idiots that want to bash someone should first show what you have done and disclose the full resources you had to do so. Only when you can directly compare your situation to that of another are you qualified to share your criticism. I always welcome constructive comments on my short comings and mistakes, but if you only sound off to say that I did so, save it.

Iceberg, research cars of the period you want to emmulate and note the materials and finishes used, then see what you can do to follow those elements. Ignore the assholes among us.

 

Except for the fact that California passed a fender law in 1952 (or was it 51?) requiring all cars to have fenders and enforced it vigorously for a while! Sounds traditional to me.
AND none of that had a damn thing to do with the OP's original question.

 

Damn ,those are BITCHIN!

 

Here's the Blue Thunder dual quad intake.
http://www.survivalmotorsports.com/images/btim429cj_8v_small.jpg

And here's the Blue Thunder no-name finned valve covers.
http://www.survivalmotorsports.com/images/BT429_plain_finned_valve_cover.jpg

After you put on this intake and top it off with dual Holley's add these Stellings and Hellings air cleaners. http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-13525187779972_2042_56336435

That's about as traditional looking as you can make it.

 

I know of a used pair in reasonable shape for $250. Not mine, just on another board I frequent.

So far as I know, they are not currently available, or reproduced in exact form. The BTs are close, but not exact.

 

"How do I make a 460 look traditional?"

Run a hood.

But I guess traditional means whatever you want it too, three carbs and finned valve covers don't make it '50's accurate.

 

I sure would'nt have parted that truck out! That looks like a stock firewall there, I doubt a sbc would clear without setting it back. The 460 looks pretty good in there by the pic. I think I would have tried blocking off the front cover and run an inline electric pump. That would have probably cleared without having to move the rad to the back.

 

That truck was built so poorly that it was dangerous. I wouldn't have driven it anymore and sure wouldn't have sold it knowing that. I kept the body for while but it fell so far to the back of the project line I just let it go. In any case me and that truck didn't jive.

 

How exactly do you determine that a OHV motor looks "traditional" or not--other than aftermarket bolt-ons?
If I'm looking at this correctly, the 429-260 reminds me alot of the Pontiac V8, (except for distributor placement of course) which first appeared in 1955(ish).

 

The word traditional has become a shot out of a scattergun. The real question should be "What is period correct?" to which we must first know "what period?"

If you want to do up a 429/460 Ford in the pre-war dry lakes flavor, good luck. If you want to do one up in 1970 drag race flavor, you have it easy.

The devil is in the details...

 

I agree with you. And if not exactly period correct, you can also give an engine an older or newer flavour with paint colour selection, style of rocker covers (eg painted factory, chrome, alloy etc.) and aircleaners.

My beef is with people advocating faking one engine as something else.

 

Swap it for a 390...

 

This is well said and and is what I was trying to get at. Details, time, and place. We are the ones carrying on a tradition. What we build is based on our abilities,means, and perceptions. It is not simple and we will never all agree on what it is, but we know it when we see it! (well maybe not) And yes, as with finders on roadsters, law enforcement and winter driving has a lot to do with it. Now for "traditional " chili. does it have beans? Mine does but you have probably guessed that!

 

the heck are you smokin? completely different valve covers and blocks. won't fit.

 

I think too many people read that traditional is cool so they want to be traditional too but have no idea what it means.

wanna make your motor cool? that's do-able, but traditional aint gonna happen

 

Smokin nothing.
You're saying "won't fit" in a hot rod forum?

I didn't say "bolt them on". Would require a little thought and mill time.

Will a SBC "fit" into a 40 Ford?

 

i say run M/T covers, i just like the style, if u can run them with the matching breathers

 

It's a joke dude Open your mind.

 

opinions are like assholes.........