The intake below is a 289 FoMoCo aluminum manifold (C6AE 9425-A) for the Weber 48IDA carbs, and the only head to manifold water inlets are the front two; all the other water inlets from the heads are blanked, and there was never any provision for getting the water from the rear of the heads out. I used to figure the engineers at Ford knew best, but I have come to think that the heat buildup in the rear of the heads could lead to steam pockets, poor cooling overall, and detonation. It just seems odd.
The only way I can see to get around that would be to drill passages through the manifold interior to the area of the water passages in the heads and run tubing from there to the existing outlets at the manifold front. That seems like a big potential source of failures in itself, and I'd hate to come up with a failure prone solution to a non-existent problem.
Thoughts?
The only way I can see to get around that would be to drill passages through the manifold interior to the area of the water passages in the heads and run tubing from there to the existing outlets at the manifold front. That seems like a big potential source of failures in itself, and I'd hate to come up with a failure prone solution to a non-existent problem.
Thoughts?