Engine photos

[Trans Åm]

Can someone more tech saavy than me post some of these engine pics?   https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog?f%5Bpub_year_isim%5D%5B%5D=1969&page=2&q=trans+am&utf8=%E2%9C%93     

Normally I could help ya, but the pictures are not "hosted" the same way as they are on other sites, and I cannot figure out how to post them elsewhere.


In other words, you're out of luck (for now).

[satman]

Open the image right click on it then click save ............

AL

[cook_dw]

Or right click and copy image url and then click the little insert image tab just above the reply box options (will have to go to preview to see the options) and right click and paste the image url

[  ]https://stacks.stanford.edu/image/cg166tj9089/2011-023LUDV-1969-b1_41.0_0017_thumb[/img]



Add the "img" to the front of the url between the 2 brackets.








Hopefully that makes sense and helps.

[JoeC]

here are some I saved from the Sanford Rev library

[Jon Mello]

For anyone who cares about such a detail, the radiator cap on Donohue's '67 was a Balkamp item.


Photo by Andrew Keller

[69Z28-RS]

The pressure relief caps were a better design than the factory cap....

[OG69Z]

That's a cool find Jon.
Will that cap be used on the Johnny Moore Camaro?

Robert

[Jon Mello]

They used a GM cap so I stuck with that.

[Jon Mello]

This 1968 Pete Luongo image from Corvette News shows a black Lakewood scattershield being used on the Penske Traco engine.
It looks like Penske mechanic Roy Gane has a stock Chevy bellhousing inspection cover in his lap.

[Steve Holmes]

I hope you guys don't mind too much me posting Mustang images on here, but I really love this thread and wanted to add to it.

These images were sent to me by Randy Hernandez, from the Fran Hernandez Collection. They capture one of the 1968 Shelby team Mustangs during a test session (at Riverside?). My understanding is that following the final round of the '68 Trans-Am series, one of the Shelby cars was used as a hack to trial various different engine/head options for the 1969 season, including Gurney-Weslake and the Cleveland style heads they ultimately opted for. I believe these images are from that test session.

Note the hole cut in the hood and the very tall plenum.

[Steve Holmes]

[Jon Mello]

Don't mind at all, Steve.  Those are some seriously cool photos.  Thanks for posting them here.  I love that clear plenum top looking down on those Weber carbs.

[Trans Åm]

Now that is a race car! Thank you for the photos, we love them all!

[1109RWHP]

Are those pictures going in Muscle Car Digital Magazine? Is there a new issue?

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks guys, glad you enjoyed them. Here is one more that at first glance doesn't appear to be related, but I suspect it is. This is almost certainly the 1969 Kar-Kraft prototype Mustang fastback, nearing completion, but still without paint.

Randy Hernandez sent me this photo but didn't have any info to go with it. But he also sent a small series of photos showing this car in its just completed stage, which you would have seen before, in its Shelby blue colors and American Racing Torq Thurst-style wheels. The series of photos Randy found in a brown envelope, which was dated December 14, 1968. So the prototype was completed by December 1968.

The 1968 Trans-Am series ended in October, and the above posted '68 Shelby car that became the test hack was trialed after the season finished.

The '69 fastback pictured below features an interesting wooden buck on its hood, that is neatly shaped to the curvature of the hood. My guess is this photo would have been taken at roughly the same time as the photos of the '68 test hack, with its tall plenum sticking up through the hood. So I wonder if Ford/Kar-Kraft flirted briefly with the idea of running the tall plenum, and a large hood scoop, possibly with a Naca duct in the front, as seen sitting on top of the wooden buck.

Maybe I'm way off the mark, but its still an interesting conversation piece.