another look at reverse cooled heads
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another look at reverse cooled heads
How's this for reverse flow cooled heads?
http://www.popularhotrodding.com/tec..._parts_engine/
http://www.popularhotrodding.com/tec..._parts_engine/
Through an ingenious distribution system, water is plumbed to the heads beneath the exhaust ports, and returned via the core plug holes in the block.
Appearances can be deceiving, as a look inside the manifold reveals. The plenum intake was epoxy-filled over a plaster mold to effectively produce a single-plane manifold within its confines.
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Originally Posted by bogus
some serious thought went into that... wouldn't it have been easier to reverse the direction of the water pump??? 
All the other stuff helps cool the individual hot spots.
Take a look at his power curves, it puts out over 500hp @ 2500rpm
