Boss 429

[getreal]

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[cofooter]

NIce!

 

[spectras only]

Best there's. Won't be long before the Chevy guys come along saying, it's still a Ford.

 

[nowski]

Nice but what country is it headed to???

Several months ago neighbors Chevy truck broke down. While loading it on the flat bead I drive by and yelled out to Ken you should have bought a Chevy. Ken yells back it is a Chevy!!! Hook, line and sinker I laughed my ass off all the way down the street...

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

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Lol

 

[HighVoltage329]

Nice motors! What power?

 

[rrrr]

Jon Kaase is a badass engine builder. He made the cover of Hot Rod again this month for his engine that won the vintage category at the annual Engine Masters event.

It's a Ford Y-block, which debuted in 1954 to replace the V-8 flathead.

Ford introduced the first of the Y-block engines in 1954 on Ford cars and trucks. The engine displaced 239 cubic inches and made 139 horsepower and 193 pound-feet of torque.

This represented a 25% improvement over the standard flathead from the previous year. Ford customers were enthusiastic about the new engine. Mercury customers received an uprated 256 cubic inch Y-block rated at 161 horsepower and 238 pound-feet of torque.

Kaase's winning engine was based on the 1956 312 CI Mercury block. In stock form, this engine produced 260 HP. He hogged it out to 473 CI, and it produced an amazing 795 peak HP and peak torque of 692 lb/ft. That's all engine, no power adders. It's a NA engine with two four barrel carbs and a fabricated high rise intake.

Those are crazy numbers for a Y-block.

 

[rivermobster]

Bad to the bone.

I'm gonna say it's headed to...

Dubai.

 

[getreal]

http://www.jonkaaseracingengines.com/html/jon_kaase_custom_built_boss_nine_engines.html

 

[Uncle Dave]

I wonder what the headers cost ?

UD

 

[rrrr]

Bad to the bone.

I'm gonna say it's headed to...

Dubai.

A good guess. Didja notice there are two of 'em shipping in the same crates?

From Kaase's website:

Kaase’s modern Boss Nine combination is based on a high-nodular cast iron cylinder block that can accommodate 429, 460, 521, or 600 cubic inches and output extends from 500 to 1,000 streetable horsepower. Kaase allows that displacement beyond 521 cubic inches include a race-oriented cylinder block equipped with 4-bolt main bearing caps.

That's just dirty.

 

[cofooter]

How cool would that be with the Stack injection option.......

 

[X-rated]

It's still a Ford!!

 

[AZMIDLYF]

There is an offshore team down in Trinidad that runs these, so it might be theirs.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2252853048065445

 

[Ziggy]

Very Prettiful

 

[Shlbyntro]

Best there's. Won't be long before the Chevy guys come along saying, it's still a Ford.

I literally just had a discussion with a customer of mine today about his Fountain Fever. Long story short, he's been blowing motors and doesn't know why. On a brand new engine (BBC) that he said wouldn't run right, I found bad machine work on the heads in addition to an ignition setup that had fixed timing with no ignition module for adjusting timing; only an amplifier with a Rev limiter. I explained to him that not only would we have to redo the bad head work of his guy in Houston but I would have to replace his distributors with ones that had a built in timing advance.
He thought the distributors would cost in the neighborhood of $200 and I corrected him to the more realistic figure of $400 at which point he disagreed. I let him know that the distributor in my Foxbody cost me $800. He tried to jab me and tell me that my problem is that it was a Ford where I couldn't resist myself a told him, "Ya but my Ford runs and your Chevy doesn't!"

 

[74 spectra20 v-drive]

Grew up sitting next to one of theses in the back of a 69' Sanger flat, tunnel ram dual quad. We skied our buts off behind that boat, we were burning 40 gallons plus daily. The best part was that the boss 9 was like hens teeth back then and I remember almost every time we went out people would tell my dad he was lying about the engine being a Ford. "Ford never made a hemi" (yes I know it's not a true hemi) and a 60's era aluminum head motor was pretty freaking cool. My brother also had a 69 Boss mustang. Just a nasty violent car...so cool.

 

[Shlbyntro]

Didn't people used to call Cleveland's "semi-hemis?"

 

[4Waters]

Didn't people used to call Cleveland's "semi-hemis?"

Those were canted valves heads.

 

[40woodie]

I'm building a 40 Ford Woodie with a Jon Kaase Boss 529 aluminum block fuel injected dyno tested at 687 HP I have it in paint now.

 

[74 spectra20 v-drive]

I just had a moment looking at that 40'...oh my goodness that will be a wicked ride!