Meme Thread... no politics

Also, to clarify the Taurus being the top selling car.  That was a time that Ford owned Hertz rental cars. 95% of those Taurus's were "sold" to Hertz, run for about 8K miles and then sold at Ford dealer only auctions.  The Ford dealers were able to fire sale them and still make good money.  The number one selling car straight to the public was the Accord.

*source, BIL's family owned a Ford dealership

Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:

Keith Tanner said:

ShawnG said:

Brett_Murphy said:

That's a Ford Y-Block

He knows what he's got, KEITH.

Now that I look at it again, I think I'm wrong.

No adjuster screws on the rockers, Y-blocks are solid lifter motors. Distance from the manifold to the head is huge, Y-blocks are closer. No studs to mount the valve covers.

I think it's actually an FE.

I don't see the split between the head and intake like I'd expect on an FE.

Though, after a lot more searching, the rockers DO look like early 60's FE non-adjustable (T-bird?).  Perhaps the split is there, just covered in crud.

mtn said:

What DOES it do? 

ShawnG said:

Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:

Keith Tanner said:

ShawnG said:

Brett_Murphy said:

That's a Ford Y-Block

He knows what he's got, KEITH.

Now that I look at it again, I think I'm wrong.

No adjuster screws on the rockers, Y-blocks are solid lifter motors. Distance from the manifold to the head is huge, Y-blocks are closer. No studs to mount the valve covers.

I think it's actually an FE.

Not an FE, you can see the valve cover rail curling around.  FE heads end roughly at the rocker pivots, the pushrods go through the intake manifold.

I'm thinking, with that big exhaust manifold and non adjustable rockers, maybe big block Mopar.

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

It's missing the lower corner valve cover bolt boss, though.

Was starting to think Buick, since the valvetrain looks Buick-like, but those don't have the inner head bolts that high.

I almost think it's actually an inline, but then you'd see intake manifold, and I can't think of any crossflow heads with rocker shafts.

The big fugly exhaust manifold looks kind of like a water jacketed marine manifold, though, which both fits the location and should narrow it down a bunch.

Streetwiseguy said:

I'm thinking, with that big exhaust manifold and non adjustable rockers, maybe big block Mopar.

I think a Mopar would have the rockers shaft mounted, and it looks like that's the case. Might be right. 
 

edited for a meme

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Looks like Ford architecture though. Really similar to the big Lincoln Y-block, those had hydraulic lifters but still had stud mounted valve covers.

Maybe an old Superduty engine, I've heard they're similar to the Lincoln Y-block but I've never seen one.

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

Streetwiseguy said:

I'm thinking, with that big exhaust manifold and non adjustable rockers, maybe big block Mopar.

I think a Mopar would have the rockers shaft mounted, and it looks like that's the case. Might be right. 
 

edited for a meme

 

My wife is working on that pattern.  

In reply to Mr_Asa :

Prove it.

NickD said:

HOw is this not the most upvoated meme on here 

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

It's missing the lower corner valve cover bolt boss, though.

Was starting to think Buick, since the valvetrain looks Buick-like, but those don't have the inner head bolts that high.

I almost think it's actually an inline, but then you'd see intake manifold, and I can't think of any crossflow heads with rocker shafts.

 

The big fugly exhaust manifold looks kind of like a water jacketed marine manifold, though, which both fits the location and should narrow it down a bunch.

I'm thinking it's a Perkins of some sort.