[MotownMadman]

Sixties,
My Team Shelby 68 TA Mustang has the one year only 302 Tunnel Port engine, the engine made a lot of HP but it only worked really well at high RPM due to the volume of fuel/air mixture coming through the huge ports. That created the problem which caused the engines to keep exploding, the high RPM caused all the oil to be in the top of the engine and the drains in the heads were not large enough to get it back to the pan before they grenaded. Ford had built the TA engines on the assembly line to prove to the public how good their manufacturing was, because of that they dictated to Shelby that the team was not allowed to alter or change the engines to correct the problem. Had it not been for the politics Ford would have made a better showing with the tunnel port design against Chevrolet, but I dont believe they could have took the championship away from the 302 Z engine, even with the problem corrected. The huge intake ports were just too much for the amount of cubic inch of the 302. Fords 427 Tunnel Port worked much better with the TP design, as it probebly would have worked better for Pontiac with more cubic inch.
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