Engine swaps

UPFord · Sep 4, 2020

With recent discussion about automotive engine swaps, I noticed two ads in Upper Michigan. One was an Oliver 1600 tractor with a 250 ci Chev six cylinder engine, listed as runs good, looked like a clean swap. Other was a 1950's Terra Trac dozer with a Chev six cylinder, ran when parked.
No idea if they found a way to govern the engine, or just use an accelerator pedal to control RPM under load.

Destroked 450 · Sep 4, 2020

I've see Chevy powered Massey combines with a governor that ran off of a fan belt, throttle lever went to the governor and another linkage ran from the governor to the carb.

Ultradog MN · Sep 5, 2020

An then there's this guy...
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Fordfarmer · Sep 5, 2020

Those belt driven governors were pretty
common. I had a NH 985 combine with a
Ford 300 6 cylinder with a governor like
that, and I still have Versatile swather
with a 200 6 cylinder set up like that.

Dean · Sep 5, 2020

Sometimes you just need to scratch your head and wonder, UD.

Probably posted this here before but once in the late 60s, I stopped to watch a neighboring "good old boy" make a few rounds with his Farmall M and three bottom trailer plow.

He had swapped a dual quad 409/425 HP engine from a 63 Impala SS into his M. Just for fun, of course, as this was well before the era of "hot rod" tractor pulling.

No exhausts beyond the manifolds and no governor, just a baling wire to the progressive linkage to the dual AFBs. Of course, no air filter.

The noise was deafening, and the plow would throw the dirt into the next county when he pulled hard on the baling wire "throttle."

FWIW, the cast iron headers used on the late 63 SHP 409s are VERY, VERY valuable today, as are the dual quad air filters. No doubt, all such, as well as the engine, was hauled to the scrapper decades ago.

Dean

Ultradog MN · Sep 5, 2020

A friend of mine in HS had a 63 Belair that he put a 409 in.
409

Dean · Sep 5, 2020

Great song, UD, and the one and only popular song written about an automotive engine.

FWIW, I've long been a W block fan, even though the 348s and 409s were routinely bad mouthed by the "know it all" motorheads of the 60s.

Unlike most other "big block" engines of the muscle car era, the 409 was a winder. With a 3.5" stroke (same as a 350 small block), huge ports and valves, massive carburetion, and enormous camshaft, the SHP 409 would make HP to 6,500 RPM as did the SHP Chevrolet small block.

Often not the first out of the hole, they would run you down.

Dean
High Winding W Block

Ultradog MN · Sep 5, 2020

Pretty fun video.
Whoda thunk?
Now you've got me watching 1/4 mile vids.

Dean · Sep 5, 2020

There's a bunch of them out there, UD.

Dean

Dean · Sep 5, 2020

FWIW: UD, Chevrolet designed a 427 CI version of the W block for introduction into both the (late) 1963 NASCAR and NHRA seasons, just before the GM brass pulled the plug on factory sponsored racing.

The Z-11 427 CI W block was never offered to the public but several Z-11 equipped 1963 Chevrolets were delivered to formerly sponsored teams. Other Z-11 engines were sold across the parts counter before GM shut things down.

The Z-11s dominated stock car drag racing in 1963.

Best estimates are that somewhere around 200-225 Z-11 W block engines were built before Pete Estes could shut things down eompletely.

Dean

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