Reverse Intake Engine!?

[Caustic Frog]

A friend of mine was at York (Pa) this past weekend for the Street Rod Nats. told me about it this afternoon and I just had to find it.

http://www.cleverlever99.blogspot.com/

Blew my mind, I never would have thought of doing this, Pretty cool I must say.

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

People were doing that with Buick Nail Heads decades ago.

[Caustic Frog]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

Really? guess I need to get out more :D I have to be honest and say its the first time I've seen that

[HEMI]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

What's so cool about having the Intake valve SMALLER than the Exhaust valve?

[Caustic Frog]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

Its different, unique, in my opinion its cool , I'm not too concerned with the inner workings and how the exhaust being in the wrong place might possibly rip a hole in the space/time continuum.

[Weldangrind]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

I saw something similar on a flathead Ford once; I thought it was a fresh approach.

[BlackoutSteve]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

What's so cool about having the Intake valve SMALLER than the Exhaust valve?

Nothing at all, but it would sure gather a crowd at a show. I think it has a reasonable amount coolness..

[DanStokes]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

As I understand SBC heads, there is no actual advantage to this. On the nailhead, due to the port configurations it was believed to flow better and increase power significantly - I haven't seen any dyno numbers. On either engine, it's cool for sure.

Dan

[HillbillySailor]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

I saw something similar on a flathead Ford once; I thought it was a fresh approach.

X2 On the flathead, I read that it's actually more efficient to run it that way.

[McGuire]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

Many flathead Ford V8s were reverse-flowed to get the exhaust ports out of the water jackets. Buddy Shay ran a V8-60 midget that was both reverse-flow and reverse rotation... and mounted in the chassis upside-down.

Bruce Crower did a SBC for Indy with both the intake and exhaust ports on the outboard side of the heads.

[HoosierGTA]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

Didn't they do that on small blocks in Indy car style racing to put the bee's nest 180 * headers on them ?

[BBR]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

You guys laugh, but IIRC the new Ford designed diesel (scorpion) is designed backwards like this.

Exhaust exits in the valley where the turbo is mounted.

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

Commercial V engines have had this design for a long time.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

I read about the Ford diesel motor, I liked the engineer's comment about the only reason to have the conventional design was for packaging - as it is smaller - but with turbos, it's actually an easier package to put the exhaust out the top....

[jays67]

Re: Reverse Intake Engine!?

flat head caddy v8 factory this way
i have done this on motorcycles like my triumph put s the carbs in the air and the exhaust out the back
still neat