On the flip side, easy access to cheap stroker kits and mega cubic inches means you need some serious cylinder heads to keep pace. While the big-block Ford crowd has been seething with jealousy ...

But for the rest of us, choosing a cylinder head might be a complex algorithm ... then you could easily choose any of these heads and make a good decision. That may or may not make your ultimate ...

Welcome to the second installment in our series on small-block Ford cylinder heads; a look at steel and aluminum castings that are designed for solid street and track performance. As many of you ...

John Mummert of San Diego, California, is well known and respected for his Y-block efforts, which include producing cool aluminum cylinder heads and induction systems for these venerable Ford V-8s.

Worse than that, sometimes misaligned camshafts and cylinder heads resulted in a ... Such common problems gave the Y-block a bad reputation. Eventually, Ford addressed this issue and used an ...

Ford Motor Company introduced its own Y-block OHV V8 in 1954 ... high-compression cylinder heads. Kirby’s flatheads weren’t teakettles. He insisted old blocks had to be perfectly clean.

In 1958, Ford introduced its new FE series of V8 engines (short for Ford-Edsel) to replace the short-lived Y-block — itself ... aluminum cylinder heads, and a magnesium oil pan.

In production since 2010 for the 2011 model year (starting with the S197-generation Mustang), the Coyote succeeded the 4.6- and 5.4-liter V8s from the Modular engine family. Over the years, the ...