Why did the exhaust pipe on the Ford Y-block V8 cross over in front of the engine?

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Maybe there was no room to cross over in the back....
 
When I was in school the teacher always made me circle my mistakes too!
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I don't know, but as little as I had to do with 'em back then I STILL MANAGED TO BURN MY ARM at least a few times!!!

I guess there was lots of underhood clearance, and it seemed like a simple solution at the time. After all, we are talking about the people who brought us the Edsel and the Pintoed
 
LOL!! Also, on the flathead V8, Henry ran the exhaust port through the water jacket, rather than having it exit the block with as little contact as possible with the water jacket. I'm not sure if that was due to limitations on casting technique at the time, or if he just thought it would be a good idea for some reason. The result was that it greatly reduced the thermodynamic efficiency of the engine, and imposed a much greater load on the cooling system. That is the main reason why flathead V8s were so prone to overheating.
 
My first conscious memories, up until just past 6, were our Ford coupe, I forget what year, about a 51. It had had a two way radio, I remember "it came" with a big spring antenna mount and antenna which would have been low band VHF, IE 30mhz and above. Police, power company staff, I don't know.

Dad had lots of trouble with it vapor locking. He always carried some water to dump on the fuel pump in "balky times." Three speed overdrive. I can remember Dad operating the control cable and passing a car "see if I can get it to kick down"
 
Probably for the same reasons that Mopar did the same with 273's & 318.
 
The firewall and transmission tunnel had no room because they were pretty flat, so they couldn't have put it there. The steering linkage was behind the main crossmember, which put it squarely in the way of any crossover.
 
Ok I just couldn't pass this up "
"Why did the exhaust pipe on the Ford Y-block V8 cross over in front of the engine? " To get to the other side. ha ha
Brian
 
The Ford had that crazy piston assisted power steering and the whole contraption was massive. Right where RRR says it was, so the pipe had to go forward.
 
The Ford had that crazy piston assisted power steering and the whole contraption was massive. Right where RRR says it was, so the pipe had to go forward.


Heck Corvette used that until?? very late, may still for all I know
 
this is why...see that massive frame member in front of the steering?
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All I rememeber from that beast was that a 351C dropped right in with little motor mount fabrication and 351C Mustang Headers dropped right in.
 
At a car show a few years ago, I saw a 78 or 79 Chevy Z28 with a Ford 292, 2 barrel with that cross over pipe. He also used the truck big 4 speed, It was a nice car and he did a nice job of installing the engine and trans. You should have seen all of the Chevy cry babies complaining that he ruined the car. I told a few of them he's just making up for all of the Chevy engines stuffed in about everything.
 
dual exhaust solved that on my old '54 Ford Y - block. Not much room on the back of those motors to the firewall, so i'm thinking space
 
Ford put that pipe there to give you something to burn yourself on.
Auto manufacturers have been punishing mechanics from day one.
 
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