How does that work? Upside-down cylinder heads? And what kind of engine is that? Never seen one with the distributor on the front of the engine like that. Reminds me of a GM LT1...
If I remember correctly this car was in Ol' Skool Rodz a while back. It's some sort of reverse induction deal. I remember finding the guys website and it had a pretty good explanation of how it was setup. I'll poke around and see if I can dig it up again.
I found it! Check this site out
http://reverseflo.com/Home_Page.html
Ah. With the LT1 (series 2 small-block) you've heard the phrase 'reverse flow' but it refers to the direction of coolant flow, not the path of air-fuel through the engine.
You asked how you do it. Well, it's easy. Heh. First, you port a set of normal small block Chevy cylinder head to get massive 'exhaust' flow, and not care too much about the intake, except for swapping the valve sizes around and massaging the combustion chambers to try to find the sweet spot for combustion. This is easy in principle, but a fun engineering challenge in practice.
Then, you find a nice cam manufacturer to grind you a cam that has it's intake and exhaust lobes reversed.
Then, you custom fabricate some exhaust headers which go up from the top, and a pair of intake manifold which fit on the sides. If you're serious, you copy the dual plane intake pattern and connect the right ports together, but in reality, you'll probably just make the best of drawing a balanced fuel mixture into each port, so you'll have long runners and an open plnum for the four cylinders on each side. Okay, you might run a balance pipe between the plenums for laughs.
Then, you find a way of mounting the Dizzy (looks like this rodder is running a rotor straight of the nose of the cam - funky idea) and spark it all up.
Personally, I've always thought the idea of building a reverse flow small block with a very large top mount turbocharger very appealing, especially if it is mid-mounted in the car, then you don't have to worry too much about A) seeing past it, B) finding a path for the exhaust or C) getting rid of the heat in a convenient way. Then we have a split intake manifold shovelling compressed air over two mahoosive intercoolers sat on top of the valve covers, through to a small plenum with fuel injected runners each side. WIN!
Also, one of the rules of building nitrous oxide engines from scratch is big exhaust flow. Feasibly, you could build an immensely strong narrow bore medium sized small block, reverse the flow, and put stonkingly huge (read 300hp+) of bottle into it without the exhaust restriction conventional engines have. Interesting, no?
