I've been working on a 4.9 L 300 6 ford motor. I've had the motor punched out to 5.03 L. I though it would be fun to size two turbos to the motor so I put two TDoL4 turbos off of a WRX that is a 2.5 L so if one is good two is better, there both water and oil cooled also went to comp cams and had a custom grind made for the motor that matches the turbos not a same ole same truck RV cam.Offenhauser intake and cast exhaust manifold 3 into 1 off of a newer truck. Ive read but haven't been able to lay my hands on a blow through head for the 300 motor and I was wondering if any of you hamb guys can point me into the right direction I know back in the day or so I have read that they took a 351 head and cut it up and furanced brazied to make a blow throught head. any ideas were i can lay my hands on one or any other leads?
Tons of info at fordsix.com forums. Some of the guys are on here too. Love that engine, but I don't know anything about turbos. Haven e fun!
Use the search function here on the HAMB. There is a number of 300 Ford threads. I know in a couple of them, there is the Popular Hot Rodding article on using 351 Cleveland heads to make a cross flow. Also, 300 cross flow heads do pop up on various auction sites every now and again, but I hope you have well stocked checking account.
Ak Miller used a 300 six with a turbocharger and propane in a roadster about a lifetime ago. It was pretty well documented in Hot Rod, if I recall correctly. Sounds like you should be able to make plenty of torque and horsepower with your combination.
Google Ford 300 six aluminum head..A fellow has been welding some late model alum heads together..He was in the Fordsix.com I think, Flyingfrenchman should remember, be damned if I can....
That was Jay Storer's deuce. It was covered primarily in the early seventies Rod & Custom mags, and maybe Hot Rod for the few months that R&C went down. It was call The Clean Air Deuce. Most of the turbo info is way old tech these days though.
Ford SVO listed a aluminum that was billet no water jackets never saw on except in there catolog.. Best production head was off 65-69 240s.
The Ford 300 six is a fun and very strong engine to work with. It isn't any cheaper BUT it does make a great accounting of itself on the street strip or oval track. Here are a few photos. Clifford in Wildomar, CA. would be one of the places to start with. They have some successful history to getting the performance part of this engine going. Normbc9
Find a crank for an F600 with a 300 6. that will give you fordged steel crank. I built one in the very early 70s with a Sissell head on it & Holman Moody 4 barrel intake with a 600 Holley on it. They are much faster now but it went 11.60s back then. Get a good harmonic balancer on it or youll never keep the flywheel on it
If you have turbos you don't need to worry much about head, valve sizes, intake etc. because you are going to get air flow anyway. Atmospheric pressure is about 14 PSI so if you add 7 pounds of boost you increase your air flow 50%. I doubt even a multi thousand dollar custom made head will increase your air flow that much. If you want more air turn up the boost. A turbo is supposed to make up for displacement, head work, carbs, everything.
I'm building one of these right now. The long term idea is to run an old Paxton supercharger. Look up "Turbo 4.9 Maverick" and you'll find a guy who boosted one and changed very little else on the motor.
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