Inliners International Forums General Discussion Blown and Injected '58 stovebolt - twin turbo build

The individual ports and cross flow are, of course, improvements, but nothing new.
That combustion chamber was what passed for efficient at the time.
The idea of a bowl (not a hemi, understood 40 years earlier) without angling the valves, or any quench surface, was already obsolete by 1949 (Oldsmobile and Cadillac V8s).
Why they spent all of that money, but couldn't do anything with the head, is a mystery to me.