I just got my April issue of Hot Rod only to find a 34 Ford sporting the new Eco-boost engine backed by a Tremec TKO tranny. The car was built by a prototype shop. Some one had to pull a few strings and shell out some serious cash!
New SHO engine in a Hot Rod!
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Off Road SHO
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I saw that at SEMA in Vegas back in November. At the time, the side dump megaphones were fake, but I notice in the HR article they said they were real. Who knows.
I bet I could make that engine compartment look better though. A little grinding here and little polishing there, a little more polishing over there, a little bit more polishing over...Well, you get the point.
Tom
I bet I could make that engine compartment look better though. A little grinding here and little polishing there, a little more polishing over there, a little bit more polishing over...Well, you get the point.
Tom
Izzmo
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Pictures?
LJRuddy
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Off Road SHO
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I was unaware that one could polish plastic...?
Ah Grasshopper, you have much to learn....
Thats for sure. It looks like it may have been rushed alittle. The air cleaner kinda funky. I would have made the cleaner look more of that era. Maybe an old Hudson twin H style. The wiring harness on the side of the firewall up high like that
IM Buddy8
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Pictures...?
I was unaware that one could polish plastic...?
It's similar to polishing a turd
LJRuddy
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'34 Ford EcoBoost hot rod project
Detroit Street Rods' latest build is a 1934 Ford and is a joint venture with Ford Motor Company and Experi-metal. In this '34 application, the EcoBoost engine is configured for rear-wheel drive and is coupled with a Tremec five-speed manual transmission.
"The decision to use the EcoBoost engine for our powertrain on this project was an easy one in that it gave us the opportunity to combine the iconic '34 Ford sculpted body lines with the advanced technology of the EcoBoost powerplant," stated Robert Smith, president of Detroit Street Rods. "The result is the perfect hot rod marriage of advanced technology for power and legendary automobile design."
While the stock Honeywell turbochargers that drive the EcoBoost engine are used, they were repackaged to fit the engine bay of this all-steel replica body. The engine configuration and turbocharger packaging was dynamometer tested by Ford Powertrain for proper calibration of the engine electronic control module (ECM). In addition to the all-stock engine, other components including the fuel pump, ECM, fuel pump module, fuel pump processor and drive-by-wire throttle were utilized in their original production configuration.
Detroit Street Rods' latest build is a 1934 Ford and is a joint venture with Ford Motor Company and Experi-metal. In this '34 application, the EcoBoost engine is configured for rear-wheel drive and is coupled with a Tremec five-speed manual transmission.
"The decision to use the EcoBoost engine for our powertrain on this project was an easy one in that it gave us the opportunity to combine the iconic '34 Ford sculpted body lines with the advanced technology of the EcoBoost powerplant," stated Robert Smith, president of Detroit Street Rods. "The result is the perfect hot rod marriage of advanced technology for power and legendary automobile design."
While the stock Honeywell turbochargers that drive the EcoBoost engine are used, they were repackaged to fit the engine bay of this all-steel replica body. The engine configuration and turbocharger packaging was dynamometer tested by Ford Powertrain for proper calibration of the engine electronic control module (ECM). In addition to the all-stock engine, other components including the fuel pump, ECM, fuel pump module, fuel pump processor and drive-by-wire throttle were utilized in their original production configuration.
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Izzmo
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'34 Ford EcoBoost hot rod project
Detroit Street Rods' latest build is a 1934 Ford and is a joint venture with Ford Motor Company and Experi-metal. In this '34 application, the EcoBoost engine is configured for rear-wheel drive and is coupled with a Tremec five-speed manual transmission.
"The decision to use the EcoBoost engine for our powertrain on this project was an easy one in that it gave us the opportunity to combine the iconic '34 Ford sculpted body lines with the advanced technology of the EcoBoost powerplant," stated Robert Smith, president of Detroit Street Rods. "The result is the perfect hot rod marriage of advanced technology for power and legendary automobile design."
While the stock Honeywell turbochargers that drive the EcoBoost engine are used, they were repackaged to fit the engine bay of this all-steel replica body. The engine configuration and turbocharger packaging was dynamometer tested by Ford Powertrain for proper calibration of the engine electronic control module (ECM). In addition to the all-stock engine, other components including the fuel pump, ECM, fuel pump module, fuel pump processor and drive-by-wire throttle were utilized in their original production configuration.
Totally awesome to actually see this. I actually worked for Experi-metal on this project and I did the CAD surfacing on this car. We actually were brought a very low mile original '34 Ford 2 door that was stripped down and we scanned it with our special white light scaning camera and reverse engineered the entire body of the car to the exact original specs using our Class-A surfacing CAD program. My company does Class-A surfacing, which is exterior and interior bodys on cars and industrial projects. I have pics of the finished product still on my work computer when we finished it. Ill have to share some pics. It took us about a year to completly reverse engineer this whole car.
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Thats cool! I work for a high end Muscle Car restoration/fabrication shop just south of Chicago. We built the Project American Heros Project II (sold at the Barrett Jackson auction for $500k) and now finishing up American Heros Project III (70 Chevelle with the new LSA out of a 2010 CTS-V) for Super Chevy Magazine.
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Ocnaj
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That thing is bad! I want it....
YZF-Ford
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That sucks that it needs all that ugly wiring and vacuum lines.
Izzmo
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Yeah well.. I think they did a great job cleaning it up though. I mean, if they just through it in there it would have looked even worse with the clutter.
they put that motor in the 34 with a 5 speed y not the 2010
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