Twin Spark Plug BOSS 429 Heads

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  1. NITRO

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    Hi all.
    Question. Does anyone have a pic or know of Boss429 heads with 16 spark plugs ???
    I think they were Allen Root Top/Fuel or maybe Top/Alcohol ???
    Now this is going back a few years, I think I saw a set in a funny car back in
    late eighties at Seattle.
    NITRO.
     
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    NITRO, Mar 15, 2009
  2. maddhatter

    maddhatter Jr. Dragster

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    twin plug boss heads

    Indy Cylinder head makes them
    Ian Gellately
     
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    maddhatter, Mar 15, 2009
  3. secondwindracing

    secondwindracing top alcohol

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  4. BIGHP

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    Boss Heads

    Hey Nitro, Call Carrol Carter at C&C, He still makes them along with blocks and all the assessories. 703-631-1265.
     
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  5. Mike Canter

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    Carrol Carter knows all the history on Boss heads and loves to talk. Have pencil and notepad ready. I Connie Kalita tried a Boss 429 fuel motor years back and that is probably where you saw it. I am positive that he doesn't sell dual plugs heads right now.

    I found this:
    One of Ford's mainstays from the mid-60s to the early 70s was Michigan's Connie Kalitta. It was Kalitta who introduced the SOHC and Boss 429 motors to fuel racing with his T/F entries. Kalitta ran a 429 Boss Shotgun Ford hemi in 1969 in his last front-engine dragster and campaigned a rear-engine car briefly in the early 1970s. His rear-engine wedge was destroyed in an infamous crash at the 1971 Nationals, when it went over the guardrail and broke apart at the scoreboards.His new 1972 ride, the "Bounty Hunter" had made the switch to Boss Hemi power. Among Kalitta's other accomplishments were his tutelage of Shirley Muldowney into the F/C and T/F ranks and giving a young Tripp Shumake his first driving assignment... in a Bounty Hunter Mustang when Kalitta was unable to show for a match race obligation. Following the above flopper, Kalitta went back to his T/F roots in the mid-70s, but remerged in the flopper ranks in the mid-80s with a Mustang driven by son Scott and sponsored by his own Kalitta Flying Service.
     
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    Mike Canter, Mar 21, 2009
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    Timex

    Ask mike what time it it and he has to tell you how to build a watch. Lol.
     
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  7. 23/cobrajet/tee

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    Information

    Mike is the best:)
    Ken
     
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  8. Hotrodlawman

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    There were some 16 plug heads

    There were some 16 plug heads produced - the only set I am aware of was owned by Wayne Gapp of Gapp & Roush fame - I was at one time the last designated Boss 429 engineer at Ford - but there definitely were some 16 Plug heads made
     
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  9. maddhatter

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    16 plugs

    my friend has two sets of indy billet 16 plug heads he runs them on his alcohol funnycar (8 plugs) only used Jessel rocker arms i believe
     
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    maddhatter, Apr 4, 2012
  10. kosky racing

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    kalitta

    I believe the car that connie crashed at Indy was owned by Pancho Rendon not his. But if Ford made duel plug heads connie would have had them.
     
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