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A shot of the engine compartment featuring the 1968 Tunnel Port 302 engine that Ed got from the EEE building at Ford. His engine man and friend Lee Morse secured for him the Tunnel Port 302 engine as a sponsorship out the back door of Ford. Many within the engine-engineering group enthusiastically supported Ed’s racing effort. He was as Ed say’s “their factory sponsored team”. Note with interest the custom sheet aluminum cold air intake and the dual quad carbs.

Ed with his Engine-Engineering buddies at Ford tried many unique set-ups on the Tunnel Port engine. Here are photos of one of the rare intakes he utilized in testing. Note the single plane spider style runners. Ed also utilized a rare “ram box” style of Tunnel Port intake manifold, which were the predecessors to the famous boss 302 plenum manifolds. Richard Rodak now owns this intake.

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The history of the Tunnel Port.
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