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Originally posted by RACER X #99
Wayne,
I think we can all agree that the BB FE does have it's own unique sound expecially in Cobras. I attribute this to the not so racer friendly exhaust ports on the FE. A design flaw that canot be corrected just by simply porting or aftermarket heads. I read recently that a 1200 hp FE was created by someone using a new Shelby Block and Heads But the exhaust ports were raised similar to what they used to do to the Cleveland Heads before the redesigned Yates head. I'll bet this engine does not sound like a regular FE although 1200 hp does make noise no matter whose brand. If you redesign and raise the ports an a regular FE, what are you going to put it in? You might just as well build a 385 series engine.
Cranky
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That was an engine built by Shelby Enterprises. Haven't seen anything else on it since that one article. Did it blow up?
Never tried it, but in a Cobra, it might be interesting, for someone with a curious bent, to reverse the flow through the heads of an FE sort of like the old Gurney engine (either with Webers on fabricated intakes or EFI); intake through the 'exhaust' ports with the actual exhaust exiting through the 'intakes' over the engine valley. This would be an awesome engine for a GT40, in a Cobra, I could see the bundle of snakes exhausts coming out forward over the center of the engine into one large turbo.
Just dreaming.