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Originally Posted by asphaltgambler
Why in the world would you run 2 different versions of the same engine in the same car at the same time?
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I really don't like posting here but that is a legitimate question. Now I want you to know this was in '68 so all my
facts are probably a little fuzzy. However, front blower or not, the reason was
height. Take the dimensions of a Ford big block and that was the size of the car ahead of the cockpit. You couldn't fit your hand between the body and the headers or valve covers.
The front motor powered the front wheels and the rear motor the rear. It was a poor design.
There wasn't even room for a high rise intake on the front engine. Understandably, I didn't get to see a lot of that part of the car. I was an outside contractor allowed in the building only long enough to see what was needed and take the AL part that was made for the rear and to to my shop to do the work. I got maybe one trial fit up before making all the duplicates.
The guys building the car were all legends in their own time: Little John Buttera, Nye Frank and Tom Jobe. I never saw any Ford engineers and in fact, I saw Mickey only once and we didn't speak. I knew Danny fairly well and did fiberglass work on his Stingray Corvette.
Mickey took the car up to 300 MPH and stepped out. By the time it was really ready, the rain closed the meet as it does every so often. By then Ford knew it was probably not viable. The 4 sponsors were Gulf, Reynolds, Goodyear and Ford.
Here it is in the swamp:
