Y Block Hoarders Identify yourselves !

[Blue One]

Are you a Y block hoarder ? Specifically a hoarder of y block parts and rare old y block speed equipment and other goodies ?

If so identify yourself and show us what you have

And while you are at it, dust off a pair of Edelbrock script valve covers and sell them to me

[skidmarks]

i have my share and know of a couple other "collectors" , got the valve covers too and no i wont sell them.

they are pricey just like the early caddy and olds valve covers. last set i watched on ebay went for $450

[vintagetinman]

I have an old Offy 3x2 , a set of fender-well headers, and a few sets of valve covers .

I am always on the look out for more

[Blue One]

Originally Posted by skidmarks

i have my share and know of a couple other "collectors" , got the valve covers too and no i wont sell them.

they are pricey just like the early caddy and olds valve covers. last set i watched on ebay went for $450

I'd only want you to sell them to me if you had more than one pair.
Sharing is more rewarding than hoarding

[mastergun1980]

Lol I just got started, but Have a 59 Merc 312, and a set of ECG-Z heads- Oh got a 272 but My truck has a 292 with rams horns, and a 57 t bird intake.

[fireman 55]

I have come to terms with it I am a Y-Block Horder.

[Hitchhiker]

I have some y block parts. Mainly a tri carb intake. no y block in site.

[venturesomerite]

I have two garages, both have a crap load of y block parts, getting ready to sell some. My favorite part is an edelbrock aluminum 3x2 intake. I plan to refurb some of the holley 94s I have and put that on my 56 Fairlane.

[skidmarks]

there was a time frame when there was tons of y block stuff cheap because of all the fat fender trucks getting the painful SBC sub frame installation. i gathered up a ton of stuff , plus we had farm trucks with y blocks .

[badshifter]

I'm an accidental hoarder. Nobody wants the engines around here. So under the bench they stay.

[Blue One]

For my part I have a 57 312 with the good heads and a complete 292. I have an Offy tri power manifold and a pair of finned Offy valve covers.

My tri power was rebuilt by dickster27.

I now have an Edelbrock 573 tri power manifold arriving soon.

But I need those valve covers to go with it for my 26 RPU.

[mike hohnstein]

I collected and liquidated two pretty good piles of Y-block stash. One in the early 70's based on a 57 w/E code complete induction, a tri power and several complete 292s and second pile 10 years ago based on a nice 56 Customline w/57 4100 Holley flange intake and distributor, tripower, two complete 312's, one w/Jauns popups, a 3 sp w/ OD etc, etc . Wish I had a digital camera then. Both times I had an epiphimy that there is NO way a Y is gonna go fast as I need to go, so out the shit went. However Y's run great even with out much love and they ain't SBC's. Nothin' makes me more weary that a rod w/350350. WTF.

[venturesomerite]

Originally Posted by mike hohnstein

However Y's run great even with out much love and they ain't SBC's. Nothin' makes me more weary that a rod w/350350. WTF.

IMO, nothing sounds as good as a y block with some glasspacks.

[skidmarks]

one of my most recent finds was a marine engine with a bad block that a guy was going to junk. i tore it down and it was like new inside . flat top 30 over 292 with 312 connecting rods. good donor parts for another block.

[mike hohnstein]

Originally Posted by venturesomerite

IMO, nothing sounds as good as a y block with some glasspacks.

Yer exactly right, that's the way my Customline was, rapped great when ya shifted. It was 3 on the tree, never had a shifter hole dug in the floor, nice tight car. Sounded just like my moms 56 Country Squire did 50 years ago, it was white woody w/ T-bird mill and stick shift. Customline was a 2dr post black cherry body was painted on the rottisery in and out, I sorta miss it some times in a way.

[smarg]

Sorry guys.. but pictures would be really nice.

[LM14]

So far I only have a pair of 292's. 1 from a '61 unibody and the other is a '59 from an unknown source.

Also have a clean set of ECZ-G heads with a nice set of ECG rockers. Also have a ECZ-9425-B intake.

Planning to put one together for my Unibody.....eventually.

SPark

[mctim64]

I have a few parts.

[Oldmics]

These just left me. I got a few parts left.
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McTim

Now that just aint wright

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