I'd like to borrow or rent one of these for starting up at 6:59 AM on Sundays after the neighbors have stayed up until 4:45 AM guzzling and playing the boom box accordion music loudly and making the YEE YEE YEE YIP YIP AH HA HA HA HA! coyote noise I'd imagine that'd do wonders for a sore cabeza
Dan thought he had a deal with Ford to license/buy his head for U.S. domestic car production and had a plant in England already tooled up and starting early production when Ford pulled the plug (reneged?)...Dan lost the chance to really get rich but that is why the heads can still be found to this day, as there were some street versions produced.
Awesome build...thanks for the post...just to be clear, the winning '68 and '69 LeMans GT40 Gurney/Weslake headed engines were 302's (bored to 305 with 4 bolt mains) and they were Dry sump cars.
My mate les curries brother bill was weslake development engineer and did the weslake gt40:heads. Innthe motorbike world any weslake bill currie motorbike parts are seriously sought after . Not many people know the exact guy who built them but Les told me
@@chiefrocka8604 I came close to buying a set about 23 years ago when I owned a K code '65 FB Mustang with the 289 Hipo and I was going to build the ultimate period 289. Back then they were about $6,000. i ended up not buying them but I still wish I would have.
its crazy cool to see gurney heads on a modern 347ci windsor stroker, i bet its a dart or ford racing aluminium block, 3 stage dry sump pump , msd crank trigger and that modern alternator, sweet combo
fontana blocks are usually 9.2" deck height, cleveland main size, so im guessing its not a 4.00" bore x 3.40" stroke ? more like 4.125" bore with 3.25" stroke?
prostwest yes, yes, and no. Yes the Ford Indy engines that took Jim Clark, Graham Hill, A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, and Al Unser to victory in the 500 were DOHC 255c.i. and yes the 5-liter(302c.i.)engine in the Ford GT40's of 1968 and 1969 had Westlake heads that Westlake had developed when Dan Gurney and Westlake designed and built his 289/305 c.i. Indy Car engines in 1967. By 1969 that engine had been increased to 318 c.i. but it was always a cam in block pushrod/rocker arm valvetrain.
I'd like to borrow or rent one of these
for starting up at 6:59 AM on Sundays after the neighbors have stayed up until 4:45 AM guzzling and playing the boom box accordion
music loudly and making the YEE
YEE YEE YIP YIP AH HA HA HA HA!
coyote noise
I'd imagine that'd do wonders for a
sore cabeza
😂🎉
what a wonderful living room heater to have on the coffee table .
Awesome! That engine would breathe new life into my 69 ford truck, if you get sick of looking at it on that stand! Very beautiful work.
not in a truck thats a waste put it in a mondeo
My great grandpa is harry weslake
Thats incredible. Was that at RYE.
Really nice Dan Gurney never got credit where credit was over due..
I totally agree with you.
The distributor is in the FirstOnRaceDay location
Dan thought he had a deal with Ford to license/buy his head for U.S. domestic car production and had a plant in England already tooled up and starting early production when Ford pulled the plug (reneged?)...Dan lost the chance to really get rich but that is why the heads can still be found to this day, as there were some street versions produced.
Its amazing how LS rocker covers, look like these slim covers !
Awesome build...thanks for the post...just to be clear, the winning '68 and '69 LeMans GT40 Gurney/Weslake headed engines were 302's (bored to 305 with 4 bolt mains) and they were Dry sump cars.
My mate les curries brother bill was weslake development engineer and did the weslake gt40:heads.
Innthe motorbike world any weslake bill currie motorbike parts are seriously sought after .
Not many people know the exact guy who built them but Les told me
@@chiefrocka8604 I came close to buying a set about 23 years ago when I owned a K code '65 FB Mustang with the 289 Hipo and I was going to build the ultimate period 289. Back then they were about $6,000. i ended up not buying them but I still wish I would have.
its crazy cool to see gurney heads on a modern 347ci windsor stroker, i bet its a dart or ford racing aluminium block, 3 stage dry sump pump , msd crank trigger and that modern alternator, sweet combo
opps it a fontana block
fontana blocks are usually 9.2" deck height, cleveland main size, so im guessing its not a 4.00" bore x 3.40" stroke ? more like 4.125" bore with 3.25" stroke?
12/28/17 - Bless you Dan! Beautiful!
I'd like to hear/see a Weslake SB Plymouth run
Fantastic! Are the headers made of titanium?
ok, showing off or a engine to sell you can build !?? sounds good, but on a dyno ?? just asking,,
Some of you know something about a "Gourney-Weslake"?? It is build in a 302 xe engine and it has special heads
Incredible. Is this the engine weslake from Rye SX UK.
Rye Harbour
That engine, I believe, is the 320 c.i. Ford stock block with Westlake heads that Dan ran in his Indy cars in the late sixties.
Pretty sure the 60's Ford Indy cars were OHC. The Weslake head OHV V8s in the GT40, etc. were 302.
prostwest yes, yes, and no. Yes the Ford Indy engines that took Jim Clark, Graham Hill, A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, and Al Unser to victory in the 500 were DOHC 255c.i. and yes the 5-liter(302c.i.)engine in the Ford GT40's of 1968 and 1969 had Westlake heads that Westlake had developed when Dan Gurney and Westlake designed and built his 289/305 c.i. Indy Car engines in 1967. By 1969 that engine had been increased to 318 c.i. but it was always a cam in block pushrod/rocker arm valvetrain.
It is a 347, listen to the first 10 seconds of video
I think one of the features was a rocker arm shaft instead of stock style, which were and are trouble at high revs
how much HP and torque did this bad boy put out?
The '68/'69 GT40 LeMans versions were said to produce about 500 HP
a lot .
No coolant ??
radiator mounted underneath
Oh. . . Ok
That would have been my question
No Blips?
wow