V12 Clevor

Kelly

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Recently I made the acquaintance of a fellow that has a project that I suspect you all might enjoy so I thought I’d share it with you. The pictures and links attached show a V12 Ford that is made from a couple sectioned 302 Mexican blocks and Cleveland 4V closed chamber heads.

Now I know there have been plenty of multi-cylinder projects done before, however, this gentleman’s name is Jan. He is a tool maker and besides the large investment of time, he made the investment of having a purpose built crank and cam made by a notable builder of such.

The bores are at 4.090” (ultrasonic says still has 1/8 min. wall), 3.5” stroke 5.565” rod length. That’s 552 Cubic Inches from the 12 cylinders.

Cam (solid roller) is 306/316 advertised duration, 272/278 @ .050. with 0.685”/.690” lift. 112 LSA installed on a .106 intake centerline.

I believe he indicated the firing order is 153624 as in all Ford straight 6s. His crank just has two rods on each throw. Right bank viewed from rear is 1-6 and left bank left is 90 out from right.

Now I know such a project draws a lot of questions about how certain things are done and how durable it will be but Jan used to build straight six Fords that were campaigned on round-d-round tracks that turned 8-8.5krpm with….you guessed it, sectioned 4V Cleveland heads, so I suspect he knows a thing or two about how to do the task and make them live and last.

I was put in touch with Jan because of that inline Autolite carb sitting atop the running engine. He also has a cross ram intake shown in the pictures with 6 outboard marine carbs and an intake with removable top so he can run four barrels too.

When I asked Jan what the engine was destined for he said he’d like to build a J-Car around it! Here are links to running video. There will be better video available in the not too distant future. Enjoy.

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http://vid398.photobucket.com/albums/pp62/kcoffield/IMG_0468MOV_zps4d163946.mp4
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3S4fQeJ60CLTWhXNWdjc0lhdjg/edit?usp=drive_web
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3S4fQeJ60CLRGlIRmlNWmpLSEU/edit?usp=drive_web
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3S4fQeJ60CLV2ZoOXJXaU5nQlE/edit?usp=drive_web

Best,
Kelly
 
This sort of stuff is great, restores my faith in the ability of 'some' people to think outside the square, Jan is lucky I don't live anywhere near him...:).... I remember reading articles of the inline six engines he built..
 
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