All Small Six Interesting Valve Cover

[phipplet]

Found this interesting. Any idea who made this aluminum valve cover? It appears to fit a Ford inline 6, but doesn't have any holes? I saw this on The H.A.M.B. It was an older post. Here's the link:

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...aight-6-144-170-200-ci.1037635/#post-11749421

 

[Invectivus]

Great rare VC, I don't know who made it though. Someone was selling one for 3k on ebay, it's gone now but they screenshotted a Hot Rod magazine from May 1960 with it on the cover. I just bought a copy off Ebay, so I might know by next week.

 

[Invectivus]

Unfortunately, no smoking gun in the Hot Rod Magazine that had three engines sporting the valve cover, but- there are inklings it was a Bill Stroppe manufactured unit.

This makes sense as Bill Stroppe and associates are the ones souping the three 144 falcon engines for the article. A tri-power, a Paxton supercharged, and a Hilborn injected unit. For the injected unit, Stu Hilborn took a patterns for one of his foreign engines, cast and machined a new casting to fit the shaved and brazed head.

 

[phipplet]

That’s great information and history. Any idea what happened to the cars?

 

[Invectivus]

They promised a future article, but i don't know which issue. I'm thinking of looking to see if there's an archive online of what was in which issues, but i doubt it.

 

[Carlthegardener]

I have one of these as well. Now I don't know anything for certain, but the bloke I bought it off reckons it's a Holman-Moody cover. He also said the reason it's got 145 instead of 144 is because that was the horsepower they got out of the engine when they modified it.

 

[phipplet]

It would be interesting to take it to a machine shop and see if they can replicate it! With the new CAD technology it shouldn’t be an issue. You would sell a lot of them! Just don’t price them like the Aussie ones!

 

[CNC-Dude]

I've got a cylinder head, so it wouldn't be difficult to create a 3D model and copy it along with the font...