Well you did good. Sometimes having the ability to do anything to a photo is over rated and sticking to the basics is best. If I had the original photos or the even the film then I would be able to do so much more. Thanks again for your effort/help.
Vincent Fiala Z11 tribute "Bad News" build.
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Best I can tell this is Vincent's engine. I've been trying to figure out if there are any identifying markers or items in the picture that would identify it as such. Mark provided me with this and I have no doubt he is correct. Just trying to confirm any information I get before I spend the money on making my engine in the tribute look like this. Ok boys pick it apart. What can you tell me about this engine? Any reason for the painted fan shroud with aluminum rivets? Does the 13 on the radiator mean anything? What is the box under the air cleaner tubes on the firewall? Placement of the breathers on the valve covers is a little different. Anyone have some like this? Not sure what was being done in this photo but there is a spark plug up on the cowl. Looks like a magneto to me but I can't tell. I never paid attention to the throttle linkage being progressive before either. Thanks for any input! None of the magazines I have with Vincent's car in it have an engine photo in them.
position of box….??? Seems to be in position to support induction tubing…going from oval to round at clamp, tube probably wants to hang….. droop and rip….. valve cover venting and pcv……??? Fairly large tube maybe he runs that back also as a road draft
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That's the heater box. 
Something tells me it was blowing cold in this car. LOL!That's the heater box.
Looks like it has some nuts stacked up on the end of the front carburetor linkage to make it one to one.
Too dark to see…….????……. no idler pulley……I don’t remember did they come with them……???…. Yes
I figured the 13 was standard issue. I only wondered if they just used rivets on the aluminum radiators, I couldn't remember.
What radiator is that with the shied like it was a 6 cylinder?
I also noticed that but I haven't paid close attention to how 63' radiators are set up. Did that only come on 6 cylinders or was it a heavy duty option?
Easy just like going to lowes those radiators where in bin 13. My 61 was a D or a 12?
Robert
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Just my 2 cents but the distributor looks like a Mallory mag spark. Yes all fan shrouds were aluminum, only explanation I can think of was they were painted then riveted together. Hayden's radiator also had the 13 stamped on it but was on the left side of the filler. Im thinking the box on the fire wall is the transformer for the mag spark distributor. Here is the best picture I could find with both units, this is for the Ford FE application but you get the idea. Good luck!
Wow, very cool! Never seen such a thing before. He did tell me he ran a mag but I have no idea what kind. I'll be headed back over to his place soon. I'll take him these photos and find more and see if he remembers. That does look the part for sure. Thanks Evan!
I went back in my videos and notes. The radiator was mentioned replaced when we went over the engine photo. I have no idea how or why he would have chosen to run that specific one with the guard around the cap. Not sure if it was possible that is what the car had in it and he just picked up the same style. Probably what he had available or a spare setting around. Cool part is, my 63' already has that style of radiator in it, will need rebuilt though.
If it is a 6 cylinder radiator it would be less tubes in the core and be lighter.
Judging by some of the other stuff I know about, it wouldn't surprise me it was on purpose.
There is a bunch of information on the Magspark. Pretty cool stuff. I hope I don't need to find one, they are pretty hard to come by for sale that actually work.
I myself don’t know anything about that mag spark unit, and I don’t doubt that is an extreme possibility ……..but it seams that the shape underneath those induction tubes looks way too dimensional, symmetrical/rudimentary to be a designed part……But I am usually wrong