Started January 1, 2016. The link to the previous forum is Forum 2015. MTFCA Home. Forum 2017 Posts should be related to the Model T. Post for the good of the hobby. Ford unveiled the Ford GT 67 Heritage Edition ahead of the Monterey Car Week festivities. In case you thought the regular Ford GT was dowdy and boring its not. Examples of real courage in the auto industry are rare, as the astronomical stakes involved with any new vehicle program tend to produce conservative, playitsafe. Motor Trend reviews the 2012 Ford Fiesta where consumers can find detailed information on specs, fuel economy, transmission and safety. Find local 2012 Ford Fiesta. Find the latest business news on Wall Street, jobs and the economy, the housing market, personal finance and money investments and much more on ABC News. In the 1960s, Fords overheadcam 427 V8, popularly known as the Cammer, became the stuff of myth and legend. Heres the story behind the story. Subscribe and SAVE, give a gift subscription or get help with an existing subscription by clicking the links below each cover image. Simone was fairly happy with the base design of the intake, but wanted a different plenum for the top, so he looked around and scored a PN 1. Chevy that bolted right up. The larger plenum worked better for the added cubic inches that the engine picked up. Even so, Simone claims to have 4. Tailoring the length of the runners to the opening point of the plenum and adjusting the average diameter of the runners from the entry to the bowl area is a key design element in making power in a specifically targeted rpm range. Short runners tend to peak higher, and longer runners tend to favor a lower rpm range. Also, a greater amount of taper in the runner, say 4 or 5 degrees, would tend to be used in higher rpm engines, where 0 to 1 degree of taper would do well with an engine built for more midrange power. Sitting between the top of the intake and the carbs is a pair of Magnaflow anti reversion shear plates. Designed specifically for tunnel rams and sheet metal intake manifolds, the design of a shear plate keeps fuel from pooling on the underside of the plenum lid, improving the distribution and efficiency of the intake system. The carbs in question are a pair of Dale Cubic modified original Holley 4. Dominators. The choke tower is a dead giveaway that these are period correct for the Boss engine. Cubic of CFM Carburetors suggested that the choke towers would help the air straighten out as it entered the boosters better than a newer style flat top carb, improving the signal to the boosters down low on the big engine. Simone says his fuel curve reflected the theory as the engine was making way more than 6. Simones day job at Diamond pistons allows him access to the latest innovations in piston technology, so when it came time to design the forgings please dont call them slugs for this build, he threw in every trick in the book, plus some. Manual De Historia De La Cultura Carlos Alvear Acevedo Descargar more. He started out with a full, round skirt design, knowing that with the power he was shooting for, strength would count more than a lightweight design. He decided to become a guinea pig for a new skirt design by altering the ovality of the skirt. They took the traditional football shaped design and made it more like two triangles back to back. Focusing the piston load on a narrower area of the skirt could lead to reduced friction, or a scuffed skirt after the first firing. A teardown after break in confirmed the new design worked exactly as intended. The skirts looked perfect, and we can credit Simone with pushing the edges of the piston design envelope just a little further. A common trick with Top Alcohol and Top Fuel pistons is to hard anodize the entire piston, creating a surface that better disburses heat and reduces microwelding to the rings. Simone went ahead and anodized the pieces, but was unsure whether or not it would be possible to add a Teflon coating to the skirt that had been anodized. It turned out to be the perfect surface to add a coating. Another strength to weight issue is brought up with the use of pin buttons to hold the wrist pins in place rather than wire locks or Spiralox. Knowing that he would be beating on the pistons pretty hard, Simone suggested that the buttons replace a good amount of the structural strength given up by boring a hole for the wrist pins. They also provide a shelf for the oil support rail. As with the piston skirts, the Shotgun crew coated the Scat H beam rods with an oil shedding coating. Those rods were floating on a matching 4. Peter Gabriel Car Zip more.