Half-Scale Ford '37 Coupe Model

takes to do it . This is incredible. How did you know that was all he needed ? Sometimes we can talk and push a little harder so we don't blow it up. Yes, that's all that's needed for this kind of work. And if you loaded it up on a stand and really gave it full throttle, you would hear the exhaust. It would sound almost like IndyCar or Formula 1. It has 180- degree collectors. That's what gives it that sound. Did you make these manifolds yourself? Yes. What did you make them out of? Stainless steel. I used to make manifolds for racing cars all the time. What took you the most time during production? Working on cylinder heads, their settings and... the manifold. I think the manifold is the most difficult because you have to drill a hole around the bend. This is what he did to... Yes, these are the exact tools he makes to get around the corners he's talking about for porting. Benny does all the machining on manually operated machines; there is no CNC in this part of the work. And every part is made from a single piece of aluminum. Then I took the radiator, cut it in half, sawed it apart, and added tanks to make it smaller. It's not even warm, actually. What did you do with the valve rocker arms ? Benny turned them out, and then we made a rocker arm with a roller on it . Here's the rocker arm. This is the intake rocker arm. The intake rocker arm on the Hemi is short, unlike the exhaust rocker arm, which is longer . The gear ratio is the same, but due to the hemispherical design of the Hemi engine, the intake rocker arm is very short and the exhaust rocker arm is very long. This is how the Ford Boss 429 was designed. The mounts, these clamps—they are titanium. Did we do this just to lose weight? This is already a finished product. But this graduation rocker is an unfinished product. This is what it looked like