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FE Power Forums => FE Technical Forum => Topic started by: TomP on August 21, 2020, 02:57:27 PM
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Someone must have spent an awful lot of money to get 501hp! A high falutin' Shelby block with a pretty small solid roller cam and stock Edlebrock heads. And peters out at an RPM that diesels go to nowadays.
I suppose in a lightweight car this would have a bunch of power but it sure seems to not use much of it's potential.
https://www.enginelabs.com/news/building-an-all-aluminum-all-aftermarket-482-cube-ford-fe-engine/
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Haha, yeah, I think Nightmist posted that the other day. Can you imagine the cost of that engine? And that level of power is attainable from a factory 390.
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Well- it is nice looking for the cruise night.
Greg
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just bling and bragging rights to claim all aluminum Shelby Block. Waaaay too much cost for 500 HP FE engine. wish i had the cash to build an engine that cost that much, but it's his money to spend as suits him, so good for the owner
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Seen it earlier and enjoyed the "Celebrity Beat-down" that ensued. Makes me look forward to my own bench building. Aluminum blocks get a lot of flack around here. Is 500hp consistent with the part selection? Any chance the quirks of aluminum blocks also held back that engines results? Impossible to know without more data I suppose.
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Seen it earlier and enjoyed the "Celebrity Beat-down" that ensued. Makes me look forward to my own bench building. Aluminum blocks get a lot of flack around here. Is 500hp consistent with the part selection? Any chance the quirks of aluminum blocks also held back that engines results? Impossible to know without more data I suppose.
Nah, the heads just stink lol
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So heads and cam kills it?
Ok builders using the short block as is,what is the fix?
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So heads and cam kills it?
Ok builders using the short block as is,what is the fix?
As Barry wrote in the other thread regarding this build, it's a $7000 block with a $1600 set of heads.
A smallish solid roller cam at 244° at .050", coupled with a poor performing cylinder head. That's a touch low on duration for a 482 with 260-270cfm cylinder heads, especially with it being a solid (you "lose" duration due to lash) cam. If you look at the peak hp rpm, that gives you a clue that it's either a small cam or a poor cylinder head. You could slap a set of TFS heads on and probably touch closer to 600 hp without trying hard. The peak hp rpm would move up as well. In addition, the correct camshaft would build on that.
This is a combination that we would have ran 15 years ago, just because we didn't have better cylinder heads, and that's typical hp for a combo back then. When I first started building FE's with aftermarket heads, 500-525 hp with a 482 was a good average build. Now we are doing that with 390's, 445's, etc.
The FE market has really advanced in the past decade. Glad to see it.
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X2. It was also not long ago that every 482 was good for 575. Now many go 600 plus.