Hot Rods ecoboosted '34 ford

puttin in a v6 and make v8 power is a cool thought, but for the same money a v8 will still smoke it. plus it wouldn't sound the same.

 

I am not sold on any new car nor really the whole econobox ****. Mostly because I drive a car that is like twenty years old and still get like 30mpg with a V6 (no turbo). Yeah it's a beater and it works just fine for me 209,000 miles just fine. I just don't get going out buying a new car and thinking that this is better for the world. Truth is I'm just adding to more cars on the road if I buy a new one right? So I'll drive my junk till the wheels fall off and buy another ****py ride to knock around in.... If I was in spirit of buying mustangs I wouldn't buy a stinkin V6 period. Why waist your money?

 

Looks like a really nice car. As long as the hood sides stay on it. Funky engine.

 

No offense,but you posted two of the most ignorant statements I have read. This is far superior mechanically and structurally in comparison to a r__rod. I don't see any complaining when a drag racer uses a turbo. I bet this '34 scoots and handles well to boot. Besides,you could always change the powerplant instead of crushing it if you don't like it,but i don't think you'd complain getting behind the wheel of a '34 Ford pushing 400 HP. By the way,I remember a HAMB'er using a Ford Ztec 4 banger from a Focus on here and dressed it up and no one ragged on him. I don't see how some people can be hypocritical,especially with all the BS the government is trying to pull with cars nowadays. Might have to resort to this some day,and if not,then there will be a lot of fed crushers.

 

Muttley:
Now that is too damn funny !
They did have a sweet looking Flathead sitting on a stand in their booth that would have been a hell of a lot better!

 

I am guessing this is Ford's way of saying this will be a crate engine option and just 1 of the mul***ude of possibilities for it. In my opinion it would have been better advertised/displayed in a 70's/80's Fox bodied Mustang. Looking at the 1 engine pic in the link, there are dress up posibilities for those with deep pockets and skills with a mill/lathe. Some creative work creating finned valve covers and a similar intake would go a long way for the "look" of that engine. Would I put it in my car? No. I am stuck on building up the 8BA. Would someone else just to be different without $ limits? You bet. But that isn't the engine for the HAMB type.

 

Easy to argue this is the next step in "real" hot rodding. This engine makes a ton of power, runs clean and I'm willing to be dependably, gotta be easy on gas...traditional hot rodding today is all about copying the guys from the '40s through the '60s, but all those guys were doing in teh first place was modifying their old stuff with the trick new stuff.

Everyone in the mid-'50s was using brand-new overheads instead of flatties because they hauled *** by comparison. Everyone at Bonneville switched to Hemis when they were brand new because they made the most power around. As cool as all this '60s-era vintage drag strip stuff is now, those guys were constantly fighting to stay on the cutting edge of technology just to keep any hope alive of winning next weekend. Blah blah blah, nobody was afraid of new **** until, what, after all those ugly rides of the '70s and the neon '80s stuff gave birth to knee-jerk trad culture?

Some new builders are using super-new stuff in traditional-styled rods, I think someone referenced one of Zane Cullen's rides above, and he and guys like him get a ton of respect for their work, skill, and even their vision. Hell, that Buick Grand National posted up there? Vern Tardel, the most traditional guy I know, said it was the last car outta Detroit that was worth a ****. He'd never put a turbo six in one of his roadsters, but he understands what it is and why it's cool. And he isn't afraid of it.

If this fancy new turbo V6 ain't your thing that's fine, but you can't really rip it. If you could travel back to the late '50s and tell all them guys with big*** Rockets and Caddys, and even smallblock Chevys that they could make that power with a smaller, lighter V6, chances are they would have dropped them right in.

I know I'm just some douchebag FNG...but so I don't get pegged as some EFI lovin' V6 guy, I'm building a '40 Ford coupe with a 371 Olds in it, 6x2 intake, Hydro trans, original interior, Halibrands on it now maybe steelies later...because it's bad*** and I love it like that. But that doesn't make me right and all this new stuff wrong.