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FE Engine Dyno Results / Re: 541 cubic inch FE drag and drive
« on: October 15, 2025, 01:52:00 PM »
How do you make that crank stroke fit ? Nice power !!
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FE Technical Forum / Re: rear tire clearance left vs. right
« on: September 30, 2025, 08:30:43 AM »
I'd try loosening everything up and try to reposition Diff to spring , check the rear upper shackle mount bushings to body .
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FE Technical Forum / Re: RUG AJ Transmision
« on: September 18, 2025, 11:22:59 AM »
do you have any pictures with the cover off ? Liberty does a process now that's called Face Plating but what you have sounds like the older style that uses Liberty's own modified synchronizers and matching gears
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FE Technical Forum / Re: How many billable hours to change cam and heads?
« on: September 04, 2025, 07:51:41 AM »
you can throw that book time out the window or maybe triple it might be close, no professional shop is going to want to do that job for flat rate with non original parts and you don't want someone trying to "beat" the book for flat rate either
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FE Technical Forum / Re: BBM Head Swap
« on: August 20, 2025, 02:48:47 PM »
Sweet !! The Gonkulator was pretty accurate, is Werby still around ?
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Holley 80496-1 carb
« on: August 18, 2025, 10:24:29 AM »
I have the annular booster version 950HP but it looks like a regular 850 body to me with very little taper at the venturi , it does have nice throttle blades with button head screws compared to the 850, I use mine on the Dove spider and got annular boosters because of the huge plenum
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Converting Holley 4160 short bowl carbs to true dual feed for 2X4 setup ?
« on: August 18, 2025, 10:17:35 AM »8
FE Technical Forum / Re: cross bolt conversion cost
« on: August 05, 2025, 07:26:03 AM »
A local machine shop/hardware store took one of those early 4.1 V8 Cadilac engines apart in mid late 80's and took that bolt-in Valley saddle (or whatever you call it) in the lifter valley and that block moved several inches as soon as the last bolt was removed and popped the valley saddle out of the block, regardless of trying they never could get the block square enough to get that valley saddle back in and the block back together
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FE Technical Forum / Re: cross bolt conversion cost
« on: July 30, 2025, 03:03:44 PM »
thrust bearing just requires more steps and doesn't really help the bottom end like 2-4 does , my own DT2 390 block is cross bolted with Pro Gram caps
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FE Technical Forum / Re: cross bolt conversion cost
« on: July 30, 2025, 08:34:03 AM »
Blair has posted before that cross bolting 2-4 is cost effective because you don't have to mess with the thrust bearing alignment like you do when doing all three and 2-4 are the ones that have trouble
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FE Technical Forum / Re: What's the most power anyone has ever got out of a Tunnel Port ?
« on: July 14, 2025, 10:03:17 AM »
540HP is stout back then out of 427 cubes , was this engine a 1967 ?
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FE Technical Forum / Re: TFS Tunnel Wedge Carb options
« on: July 08, 2025, 07:48:23 AM »I have built and dyno'd TW engines ranging from 517 HP (mild 452 w/ Ford TW) to 633 HP with a Dove headed 496 and a Ford TW, in between 550 HP 457s and 630-ish 485s. Ironically, the 633 HP 496 made about the same with a pair of Edelbrock 600s as it did with the 600 Holleys as we troubleshooted what turned out to be ignition.
I think Barry R had a similar experience with 2x4 Ebrocks during a test when he had trouble or no parts to fix? with some Holley's and the Ebrocks were down slightly in HP but had like 18ft lbs of more torque than the Holley's after the Holley's were fixed
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Max effort 390FE
« on: July 07, 2025, 10:55:19 AM »
Blair has made some big power 390's along with the engine master
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FE Technical Forum / Re: TFS Tunnel Ram Carb options
« on: July 07, 2025, 10:50:30 AM »
run two 3310's 780/750's, Drew might have a couple for sale
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FE Technical Forum / Re: Detroit Lockers
« on: June 20, 2025, 09:25:55 AM »
I didn't mind the spool with my slicks but didn't like them with drag radials or street tires , my locker is old late 60's unit noisy as fug and corners are best off of the gas but be ready to grab the wheel if you have to gas it , my 63 Fairlane will want to plow a little if you have to give it gas around a 45 and up mph around bends and turns on Rt 42 especially with the skinny fronts . I'm in the same boat as you and thinking of upgrading my 65 Mustang Fastback we tubbed and built in the late 80's with small block power that has 31 spline to a 35 and/or more spline to accommodate Blair Patrick HP after I change over the 1965 shock towers out to a "modified for even more clearance" 1968 shock towers from Dynacorn