Still looking for another high riser single plain single carb intake, prefer one with a dominator flange.

So I’ve been watching this thread and wasn’t gonna stick my nose in it but… Ross contacted me about picking this up… I made a batch of billet Steel main caps before about 10 years ago now I guess it was already.. I was still in my old rental shop… time flys. Anyway, I listed them for sale and the only guy who really used them that I know of was Blair Patrick. One pair of my caps were employed on his winning engine masters entry, the last year they had the competition IIRC. So what I’m trying to say is they have been proven to hold up to at least 600 hp in competition. I have blanks to make another run of them and the same CNC milling machine to run them on as last time. I don’t know exactly what the price would be yet, but I can make it a higher priority than it sounds like billet speed is. I’d just like to know how many could be sold as soon as they are completed and how much interest there is in them. So I can gauge how many extra sets to make for the guys that are on the fence. Bigger the run I make the cheaper the price per set gets. I believe last time I made them they were around $100-$120 per cap, mind you this was well before the Covid plandemic drove prices up on everything. I was selling them in pairs for position 2 and 4 as those are the ones that tend to fail in the factory block. I can sell sets of three or 4 if need be but it would be up to the end user/machine shop to fit the thrust bearing cap to the block. If you guys are interested let me know and I can make it happen.

Seems like a pretty rare intake Demitt has. Is it really magnesium and work that kind of coin? How do you repair a magnesium intake if it’s needed? I did receive one intake but now I’m thinking I need to find a second one for myself. Is there any others available that aren’t $3000+? Thanks

Thanks for the info guys, I’ve pulled the heads and believe I’ve found the reason it was taken out of service, heads had seats installed on the exhaust side at some point and number one cylinder torched the exhaust valve and the seat dropped, looks like it was running that way for a short while but thankfully only a few small marks in the top of the piston and not a dropped valve. Must’ve been sitting for some time because there is a decent amount of rust on the cylinder right by that exhaust valve rest of the cylinders look pretty decent with minimal wear, I’ll clean up the rust as best I can, swap the heads for a ported set of D2’s I did a very long time ago, probably a 428 CJ intake and a used small solid flat tappet camshaft that should drive nice and still pull a decent amount of vacuum for brakes. Should be a fun affordable engine when back together.

So I was looking at market place last Sunday and found this irrigation pump trailer that had a FE on it. Turns out the valve over tag actually matched the engine. Seems to be a 74’ if I read the date code correctly on the block. Has what I think are FT heads on it,with the goofy exhaust, crossover,  C7TE-C. Three bolt flanged exhaust manifolds and 10 bolts holding manifold to the head.

 Anyway my question is does anybody have any info on what the cam specs are that ford used on these engines and what the torque/horsepower rating would be and at what rpm? The ports are tiny on the heads and if it doesn’t run well I’ll probably replace them with ported passenger car/truck heads down the road but I wanted to see how it runs as is first.

I have the oil pan and intake off right now looking over things and taking care of some rust issues I discovered. Appears to be 4.160 bore and .020/.010 mains/rods. Regular 390 rods and cast dish pistons. Clevite rod bearings stamped 2-88 which I believe stands for February 1988 they were made.. FM main bearings and a 1UB crank, M57HP oil pump… never seen one of those before either. Thanks for any insite you guys can provide. 

Mike Brunson that certainly looks like the intake, pushrod holes can be machined in and isn’t a huge problem for me. I own/operate a machine shop. What do you have to get for it? Curious what the heads are as well? If you could, send me a DM or a phone number to call.

Thank you,

Cody Ladowski

Straightline Machine LLC

Still looking for the elusive dove single 4 barrel/plane high riser manifold.

My aluminum T&D race rockers have survived since 2017 in my 520 and the springs are around 250 on the seat and over 700 open, .700ish lift cam and seen north of 7000 rpm alot… plenty of passes and street miles on my deal. Engine is apart now for a freshening. Crower bushed lifters looked surprisingly good after that amount of time. 100’s if not a 1000 passes and several thousand street miles… some pulling a trailer or the boat to the lake lol. Love driving my old truck. I wouldn’t be worried yet on yours. T&D and Crower make some very good stuff.