The Roaring Season

Steve Holmes wrote:Yeah I don't know if he stuck with the tunnel port heads, they were a bit of a disaster. But it would be good to know. I wonder if he might have even had engines built by his team in Australia, as was done with his previous cars. Pauly, the engine bay shot you saw, was it of the car when Jane owned it?

I believe so steve, as it had custom made valve covers with "Bob Jane Racing" or something similar cast into them... The 302 TP was a pretty good engine, it just was 'built' poorly by FoMoCo, who wouldn't let Shelby touch them, at the end of the season, SA built their own engines (behind Fords back) and Horst Kwech won pretty much the only race of the season for the team...

Steve Holmes wrote:Ellis, what were the other Kar-Kraft '69 Mustangs?

M codes mainly
Have read on here....lotsa good stuff and you will find the Jane ex Shelby as well

http://www.ponysite.de/transam.htm

Thanks Ellis, yes I refer to that excellent site quite regularly, including for the article on the Dennis Leech Mustang I'm just finishing off. Wolfgang is a member on here, and pops up from time to time.

zombie289 wrote:I believe so steve, as it had custom made valve covers with "Bob Jane Racing" or something similar cast into them... The 302 TP was a pretty good engine, it just was 'built' poorly by FoMoCo, who wouldn't let Shelby touch them, at the end of the season, SA built their own engines (behind Fords back) and Horst Kwech won pretty much the only race of the season for the team...

Thanks Pauly, and yeah you're right, Ford needed to just let the race teams do what they did best. The same thing happened with the original GT40.