Inliners International Forums General Discussion Hi Performance Edelbrock not supporting Inline Engines?

Make sure you put up some pics if you do!

On the Sissel link, what timing cover is that on the red engine?

http://www.sissellsautomotive.com/

Do you have a direct link or state what to click on to get to the red engine.

MBHD

Hank, I think this will work.

http://www.sissellsautomotive.com/images/streetmotor2_2.jpg

Make sure you post some pics if you decide to cast your own!

I'll probably melt the wasted pistons from my old flattie to make them. I'm gonna be puttering around the garage tomorrow and see what it will take......Yes, I promise pictures.

What about the Inliners members who would want to do a crossflow head for the Ford 300? Or Mopar or others? Should Inliners take that on too?

Methinks that when it comes time to actually put up the cash involved that "several hundred" would shrink to "a few".

Methinks what hethinks. Besides someone would have to be in charge and actually do something.

I think we have more non PAYING tire kicking members on this board Then there is Paying members who want this type of head.
On this Board.

larry, you do make a good point. tom

Amen to that, but not just here.

OUCH !!! SCRAP

Once Again Off the topic BUT at the sametime on topic.HOW long do non paying CLUB members Keep over stepping Their aloted Posting. I THOUGHT (key word) they were only aloud So many postings.

Just say it!

The whole conversation thread is a Chicken and the Egg reality. There are still many inline engines out there. They will all eventually go to the scrapyard unless they can be made popular choices to put in cars.

The only way they can overcome that is to have a host of cool parts available to them as not too many people (at least here) wants a plane jane stock engine, when you can buy parts for more popular V8s.
So thanks currently to all of these little companies that believe in these engines and keep up the production. I am sorry i called you "Cottage Companies".

Maybe just maybe some big player will take note and realize how many of the Late Chevy or Ford Inliners there are out there and the potential to modify them.

If not so be it. We will find a way to survive!!!

I think I said this on an earlier thread concerning the 12 port head for the later inline; if I were truely interested I would contact Joe Fontana in Gardena Ca. His 8 port midget head was a dirivitive of the Dugan and is 2/3's of one since it was done for the 153 4 cylinder. It's for sure that he has done more port design work on this head than anyone.

He recently cast up a dozen or more of the Skinner 12 ports for the 302 GMC along with injectors and covers and he also casts up the Ford small blocks. He is in this business and if he gets some committments I'm sure he would build some late models.

He does have a website at http://www.fontana-automotive.com With all the work he has done with the 4, I could only imagine what you guys could do with a 6........Good Luck..JD

Contacted Joe at Fontana and seems like a nice guy. he said he only does build up for the GMC 302. He has a set up that makes one into a 380 hp street racer!

Nice, but showed no interest in late Chevy Sixes. Oh well.

Thanks I'm glad someone contacted him with some interest. I have worked witgh him before and had no idea whether he would be receptive to the late 6's.

So what's the price range to get one running (ie all the pieces, not just a bare head)? $5K, maybe $7K?

Not cheap, but 380hp out of a 'street' Jimmy (if it's street, I expect it to run on pump swill).

Or did you ask?

Joe Fontana is "good guy" and knows where horsepower is when producing his 4 and 6 cylinder race motors. Long ago he started using the late "Tom Skinner 12 Port" from right here in South Jersey. Inliner members in this area dream about coming across a Skinner head at a local swap meet. Joe submitted "A Tribute to Tom Skinner" to the May/June 2008 issue of 12PN.

Not knockin Joe, or anybody else, just curious if anyone knew what the full meal deal cost?

5-7 K is speculation on my part, but appears to be what a Wayne head and all the stuff it takes to make it go costs. Not figuring that Joe can afford to undercut himself, soooo, same, higher, lower, dunno it's why I ask.

And if anyone thinks I'm puting James down when I ask if he asked, I'm not, I've been on the phone before and found that somone didn't have anything that was going to work for me and forgot to ask what the stuff they had went for (in case I run into someone that would like to know). So been there, done that, but if you did ask, let us know what he said, please.

You are correct, when the dust clears a complete head is about 5-7k depending on the port work and valves, his four bolt conversion mains are $650 and the roller lifters for the GMC are $850 cam cores about $300. As mentioned Joe is a great guy and knows how to make them go fast and I am glad to call him a friend. Speed is never cheap.

Yes and to 'clarify" I exchanged emails is all. I do not want anyone to think that we had a pointed discussion on the phone. I simply asked in my email if outside of the current line up of Midget inline 4s and GMC sixes was there any interest in Late Chevy Sixes.

Would never slight someone as reputable as Joe. Sorry if it came off that way.

James

I was hoping Joe would do something with the late model and I'm sorry he isn't. Without Joe and that original Skinner head my son and I would never have gotten in the Bonneville 200 MPH Club. Others who knew Joe back in the 70's and 80's were very glad I became his partner and brought him back to land speed racing. Just 2 years after we quit running together he used one of his new casting Skinners on gasoline in the Fergusons streamliner. He went in the 200 MPH Club at 255 and the oldest member at a "young" 82. Anyone who knows him cannot believe his energy. He travels the country following his Midget Engines. Tony Stewart drove his corporate car a one time and is still a personal friend of Joes. Joe loves racing of all kinds and I hope to partner up again with him............JD

My misunderstanding, I thought you had him on the phone. idn't figure it was 'pointed' or heated or whatever, just a call like any of us would have made inquiring about the availability of speed parts for our chosen engine/s.