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FE Power Forums => FE Technical Forum => Topic started by: whitea62.7t on January 25, 2016, 02:40:22 PM
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Seen this , has FE heads , but strange waterpump
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n/m
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A FT out of a truck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_FE_engine
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Yes, FT engine like Bob said. Medium & Heavy duty truck ( like F600 ), buses, etc. The block is worth saving / checking. Some 391 FT blocks from around the 1970-1972 casting period have 428 cylinder cores with thick cylinder walls, most I've checked of other years are just normal 360 / 390 cylinder cores. Be advised that the block may need a bushing to use a FE car / light truck distributor. They also have a tapped hole in the side of the block for an oil return that can be plugged. FT engines use a different heat riser system and different heads, intake manifold and exhaust manifold than a FE. I've never found anyone interested in used FT heads. Some of the distributors have a tach drive take off and may have value. I've seen a few people interested in the rams horn style exhaust manifolds some engines have, but they need welding up the heat riser to be used on a FE head. People used to save the forged cranks, but they need machining to the front and rear to be used in a FE and my understanding it costs more to do than buy a new crank, but there still seems to be interest and if you have a machinist friend that works cheap might be worth perusing. The valve covers may be unique and have some value, or just normal FE covers. I've seen more interest lately in people looking for the various brackets for PS, Alt, air pump etc.
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I have a timing cover and water pump like that. It was on a pickup 360 in my motor home. If it is a MD 330 the flywheel will be neutral balanced. With the C4TE bell housing you can put a 13" clutch behind a zero balanced FE.
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Unless things have been changed, I think it is a 330FT. When I worked at an engine shop in the early-mid 80s, I had done several 361-391FTs in COEs, a fewF600/700s, as well as several Louisvilles, and all the 361 and 391s I installed,I believe had double thermostats, this engine has what looks like a normal FE style single thermostat. Back at that time, we were buying whatever FT cores, especially heads we could find, but I`m sure that market has dwindled over the past 30 + years.
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If that market is around I've yet to find it. I have a pile of FT stuff that isn't worth the shipping cost and nobody local seems to want it.
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Yes, the FT stuff is hard to get rid of. An old pal had tons of 1st gen. SBC stuff but when the LS series took off, he was left to selling mostly for scrap a lot of the old Chevy stuff as few fellows wanted it. They all wanted the more powerful and eventually quite junkyard plentiful LS engine. The same fate has befallen the Y-block fans from what I hear.
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The FT block is a heavy casting though and you can bush the cam hole and use it. Some can be taken out to 427 bore and have thicker webbing, also they come with a forged crank.
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I don't think all FT cranks were forged.
I did a search about them and from what I found some of the 330 FT cranks were cast.
Can't remember the casting # on mine but I'll take a look tomorrow before I take it to the scrap yard.
Richard