Quote Originally Posted by Ellis View Post
That is so true Steve
With the Mustang Tunnel Ports is sure proves having a great heap of horsepower (up the top end) and little torque leads to having to rev the engines to bits..

One tongue in cheek quote years later was that with a tunnel port on the dyno doing 4000 rpm you could grab the harmonic balancer and stall it.
Ive always been mystyfied at why the 302TP was considered so bad, driveability wise... I'm no engineer or race engine guru, but I always thought a BOSS 302 would be heaps worse (for lower & mid range torque) than a TP engine because they have so much more port volume... What am I missing here?// Dale?? Maybe the Boss 302 design just worked a whole lot better. Also the TP race block was basically the same as a Boss 302 IIRC (4 bolt mains etc) , so why were they more prone to exploding at high RPM??