Falcon Punch [pics]

that's a bit special. Love how wide and long it looks at that height. Engine looks... Err... Complicated

beautiful. The intake exhaust reversal is how those indycar engines were, maybe easier to fit exhaust and wide wheels in the same narrow car? dunno

Couldn't work out why they'd made it a fastback, but the original was:



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Er yes it is. That's why I posted it. I was referring to the good kind of stupidity. Like 11,000rpm 250mph stupidity.

Exhausts in the Vee..... from memory its to do with racers of the 60s packaging rear engine cars and aerodynamics, By put the exhausts in the Vee it was a lot easier to get the exhausts out of the car than running thru the suspension, BUT, somewhere in my addled brain I seem to remember flathead belly tanks used them for aero reasons, with an added advantage that the inlet ports on a normal flatty flow better than exhaust ports, so reversing the flow made perfect sense for performance too.
For the falcon it makes perfect sense to me to, if you are running a big single turbo plumbing is a nightmare, run the exhausts out of the vee has to be the perfect solutions, as for the rest of the car, undoubtedly a superb piece of engineering, but just dosent work aesthetically, even if is a "copy" its too overdone for me.

Could it also be a 180 degree manifold? That'd be loads easier to do in the valley, if you do it with the ports outside the block, the manifolds end up needing about half an acre. Look a bit good though, if you've got the room -
This explains it better than I'd be able -
www.fordfe.info/Exhaust/180FEHeaders.htm

You get better extraction, and they make a mental noise too!

I love this, to me the engine bay looks mental in all the right ways and the exterior looks damn near perfect

The indycar engine is interesting as well, I've always wanted to see a modified car fitted with a Cosworth DFV or something similar

That is sexy!

I looked for a video for you with no luck

Found an article though!

www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/0812phr-1962-ford-falcon/

^ Worth a read

BAHAHAH

Okay this is a twist. Check this out.

When I put up those last pics, I thought they looked familiar. Also the title "Lone wolf" rang a bell.

retrorides.proboards.com/thread/159666/lone-wolf-pics

Yes, I have started a thread about this car before.

That alone (ie my idiocy and awful memory) is amusing - but the icing on the cake is that when I did so I was told it had been on here about 4 times before.

I hang my head and beg your forgiveness.

And yes Mark, that is the standard bumper upside down (it's mentioned above).