my find of the year so far clinton e65

[Chris Marchand]

Wow, hope they knew what they were doing when it was 5 ported . Some of those ended up slower than the stock E 65. Ask Terry he did a 5 port a while ago and was not impressed.

Look forward to seeing it on the track. HINT HINT

[David Luciani]

it looks like someone who knew exactly what they were doing added the ports.
the original ports look like the pix and specs from the book i read long ago.
the added two ports are 1/2" aluminum tube welded in place.
the engine block outside looks worn so it may have been run alot.
it may be one of the ones modified and sold by van tech like the mc10's were?
will post pix one day soon.

[ted johnson]

Has anyone ever seen Ray Netherton's A400.490 from the olden days? It had a Mac head, flat top piston and transfer passages close to the block, not looped way out as some I've seen on Clintons. It was said to run nearly as fast as an Mc6. I never had the pleasure of seeing it, I just read about it. TJ

[steve miller]

..HHmmmm .. I think ill get in on this ..
might run my injector pump off crank or 12 volt not sure yet ,.
first i need bore it a Lil fir my special deluxe piston ...Lol..
   

[ted johnson]

Steve, why does the piston have three scallops when the '65 has two oval intake ports? TJ

[Chris Marchand]

Cool, now we have vice grip Miller joining in !

[steve miller]

Tj...cuz it goes to a 700 five port ..lol..

[ted johnson]

That'd do it! You can see it's been ages since I worked on a cross-scavenged engine! TJ

[steve miller]

..TJ.. same pin height ..but not enough liner to bore it big enough ...but I think something like a 6 hp boat piston will work ..next rain day im gonna tear apart couple boat motors see whats in there ..

[Chris Marchand]

If you use a boat piston your gonna be called a cheater by the whiners on here , LOL.