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FE Technical Forum / Re: New Iron FE Heads
« on: April 29, 2015, 06:09:49 PM »
True, the major players in the aftermarket arena offer iron heads but for their major selling engine families such as SBC, BBC, SBF & SBM . Some as a direct replacement head, some to meet rules of the many racing bodies that require "stock" iron head for class racing and to fill a need when OEM casting got used up and that supply has dried up. The FE is more a nitch market that doesn't fall into any category where iron heads are required for any class racing, at least none that I'm aware of...Besides if an FE were to dominate in any class the powers-that-be would make rule changes to handicap the FE. Been done many times in the past. Ask NHRA or NASCAR, for some reason they cannot stand to see a Ford win. On the other side of the coin it would be a major financial loss for someone like Dart or AFR to go to the trouble and expense to invest, design, develop and bring to market a product just to watch the sanctioning bodies outlaw it. The whole project then goes into the crapper.

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FE Technical Forum / Re: 428 stroker
« on: April 28, 2015, 12:03:24 PM »
Quote from: Black Galaxie on April 18, 2015, 01:57:58 AM
RJP:  I just registered for Dream Machine, see you there.  I'm looking forward to it.

Drop67Galaxie: you can email me and we'll set something up.  s.altman@sbcglobal.net
Steve, good to meet you at PCDM. Sorry we didn't get to meet up after lunch as we saw a opening among the parked cars and made a break for it. The traffic on 1 gets real bad after about 1:30- 2 pm. Hopefully we can get together another time. best regards, Bob

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FE Technical Forum / Re: New Iron FE Heads
« on: April 28, 2015, 11:56:28 AM »
There are lots of used iron heads still available if you look. Granted, the wrecking yard FEs are getting sparse especially when scrap prices are high. But there are other sources such as private hoarders such as myself. I have collected about 16-17[?] sets of common FE heads such as EDCs, C1s, C4s, C6s, C8s, D2s and some that aren't as common. So many I will never use all I have in this lifetime or even into the next. Also as a hardcore Ford guy that is into FEs and 385 series engines these parts just seem to fall out of the sky for me as other car guys in my area know I collect this stuff. So as a result most parts are free, just "get 'em outta hear, I'm tired of tripping over this junk" The last 3 or 4 sets of FE heads were free for the taking, just had to pick them up. A couple of sets were even delivered for me. Guys move and don't want to take the parts with them. Other guys die off and the widow wants the garage cleaned out [That will be my wife when I kick the bucket] Even still other guys change projects and accumulated parts are no longer needed, not to speak of the guys who just plain quit and dump their inventory. With all the vintage iron still out there I don't see a market for a new "replacement" iron head when aluminum is so dominate.

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FE Technical Forum / Re: 428 stroker
« on: April 17, 2015, 11:21:37 AM »
Yep, Not sure which one yet. Probability the 66 Galaxie as it is the easiest to get out of the shop. :-\   I'll be with a group of hard core Ford freaks. From Pintos to a GT 40....so far, more may be added. Looking forward to seeing you and your Galaxie. Regards, Bob

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FE Technical Forum / Re: 428 stroker
« on: April 16, 2015, 06:28:48 PM »
Quote from: Black Galaxie on April 16, 2015, 04:32:59 PM


I'm in SF, if you are anywhere nearby I'd be glad for you to check out my Galaxie.

Steve A
Are you going to Pacific Coast Dream Machine?

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FE Technical Forum / Re: Hardened valve seats on the D2 head question
« on: April 16, 2015, 11:32:43 AM »
As Barry said one has to have a good touch to be able to tell if a seat is hardened. What I do is if the head is supposed to have hardened seats I lightly touch the seat with a gray finishing stone to see if it cuts or just sort of polishes the surface. The cutting sound and feel also will be a little different than on a seat that is plain iron. Most hardened seats should clean up with just a light surface cut and have little or no pitting normally found on unhardened seat. I recently did a set of D2 heads and the exhaust seats cleaned up with just a light touch of the stone. Be careful as the induction hardness is very shallow and any thing beyond a light, quick cut of the stone will grind thru the hard surface.

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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: Hot Rod bans Ford's 4-cam mod motors from E-M competition again!
« on: April 01, 2015, 12:36:37 PM »
Time and again HRM proves it's bias against Ford. For the last 5-6 years [or more] HRM features very few Fords or Ford specific articles but Chevy, Mopar are well represented in both features and technical articles. Count how many Camaros are on the cover and let them tell us that Fords are well represented, how many "How to make XXX horsepower with the LS engine" has been printed? We've had the LS engine shoved up our asses for years...HRM is a joke, a bad joke at that.  HRM and NHRA must use the same playbook, I've never seen a more brand specific bias against Ford as I've seen over the years in NHRA, To prove my point why did NHRA ban the 385 series engine in T/F, fuel/funnycar, and in the Alcohol classes? They simply changed the rules that no engine with a bore center more that 4.84" can compete. Is it just a co-incidence that the 4.84" B/C is a BBC specific size? All of Walt Austin's work with the Boss 429 Hemi was wasted as he found a few things with the B-429 that were superior to the 426 style Mopar, like stronger cylinders due to a bigger bore center, better breathing heads, higher cam tunnel for bigger cam lobes, better rocker ratios, smaller combustion chambers for a given C/R so a lighter piston could be used. A stronger crank by design with the 3.00" main journals and greater journal overlap for the rod journals. Their bias is so blatant and extreme I'm surprised that any engine painted blue would be kicked out of an event.

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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: Just saw----
« on: March 20, 2015, 07:19:29 AM »
John, best wishes and prayers for a speedy and complete recovery.

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FE Technical Forum / Re: 390 Stroker on the Dyno
« on: March 08, 2015, 12:13:07 PM »
Nothing is totally worthless....you can use one of those to move your toilet over a few inches.

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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: O/T rant its cold and we can't race.
« on: January 22, 2015, 12:46:49 AM »
Quote from: sanddoc on January 22, 2015, 12:14:32 AM
I'm a Ford guy. (period) and lately I have done a lot of research on Ford vs Chevy
  I think what Ford has always run up against is 1. Marketing and 2. deep pockets.
GM don't forget was 88 billion in dept when "we" bailed them out.
 I get a little pissed when I watch these auctions and the announcer says
chevy big block.
below is a Ford vs Chevy match up. not olds, buick, Caddy... back in the day they
each ran mostly separate operations, not like later in the 70's..
Ford, first mass produced v8
Ford first OHV V8,
Ford First Big Block, FE 
Ford first 427 in 63 pre dates both chevy 427 and Chrysler 426 for street
Ford largest Big Block  460 in 66.
The largest chevy engine in 58 was a 348, while you could have a  352 Ford..
the Great FE series CID ran from 332-428  chevy  396\427\454
you could build a 390 401HP in 61 with tri power intake.  390\375hp factory
you could get a 352\360 factory in 61.
the FE was the most versatile of any engine built, when you consider the FT series.
and last check out this page
  http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/engine/hrdp-1001-muscle-car-engine-shootout/
So Ford is out of racing again. Leaving Ford fans with no one to support,
what happening with John Force? How about the (nascar) guys. not that
I follow nascar, too many rules, thought racing was racing. thought it was stock
cars and over the counter parts.
 Best
I admire your enthusiam but a couple of corrections are needed. 460 [385 series] was not available until 1968 and in Lincolns only. 429 was available in the Thunderbird only in 68 as well. 352/360 HP was replaced with the 390/375-401 HP as the only high performance option in 61. 352 in 61 was a grocery-getter 220 HP 2V. If you want to match engine familys with Chevy then the 348-409 427 W engine would be the best comparison rather than the 396-427-454 as the "Rat" motor was not released to the public until mid 1965. The FE and the Chevy W engines were both released in 1958 [model year] And for the record the W engine was less than successful in NASCAR as it was better suited as a low rpm truck engine. As you might have guessed I'm an old guy that was there when most of this stuff was going on and the Chevy bias is nothing new but it still pisses me off.     

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FE Technical Forum / Re: 61 390\375hp engine
« on: January 22, 2015, 12:22:59 AM »
Quote from: sanddoc on January 21, 2015, 11:36:49 PM
does anyone have the technical specs of this engine?
 intake, springs, valve size, lift. etc:
thanks
Dave
Intake: 1 x 4V alum. dual plane. [Very minor diff between the 352-360 HP manifold] Springs: single spring with damper,  pressures: [checked without damper] 80-90 seat @1.82"/184-194 @ 1.32", Cam: .479" lift-276 deg. duration, lashed at .025"  Valve size: intake 2.03" ex. 1.56" same as stock 300 HP. Need anything else?

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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: AJ's Birthday
« on: January 17, 2015, 08:44:43 PM »
Quote from: cjshaker on January 17, 2015, 04:28:55 PM
Cool shot. I wonder what the thing hanging off the back of the bell is? Looks like a starter, but the stock starter is still visible.
It is a starter, wound to rotate opposite the one in the stock position. H/M saw the need for dual starters on high compression marathon boat engines where starting a heat soaked engine was a problem.

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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: O/T rant its cold and we can't race.
« on: January 12, 2015, 02:02:38 PM »
That's the beauty of a Fox body Mustang. IMO it makes sense to race, thrash, beat on a car you are not "in love" with. If it tags the wall you just hang new sheet metal on it and keep on going. If you drop a wrench on the fender, no biggie, fix the dings in the off season. I would not risk wadding up my 60 or 61 Starliner as that would most likely be the end of the car as body parts and SS trim are next to impossible to find and if found are worth their weight in gold. I feel the same about my 2 Fairlanes. If I were ever to get back into racing it would be with a car that is not a collector's item or one that I was in love with.

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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: O/T rant its cold and we can't race.
« on: January 11, 2015, 06:29:37 PM »
Any Ford product at the strip, car show, cruise nite, coffee & cars or just cruisin' on the street, Fox body or otherwise is better than no Ford products.

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Non-FE Discussion Forum / Re: O/T rant its cold and we can't race.
« on: January 11, 2015, 03:55:26 PM »
Quote from: lovehamr on January 11, 2015, 11:33:10 AM
RJP, tell us how you really feel.  Holding back like that could lead to stress.................   ;)  ;D

BTW, being a Boss302 guy as well, I've always harbored the inner desire to transplant a Boss engine into a vintage 68/69 Z/28.   ;D He he he!  Can you hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth over that one?  It'd be biblical for those little twatmonkeys!  Which of course is why I would do it. 8)
If I did that I'd be banned from this site for life. >:( I cannot for the life of me understand why someone would use an inferior engine in a Ford when they could have a better engineered product than those orange lumps of sh*t. The only reason I've ever heard is "They are cheaper to build" If yer looking for "cheap" build a VW Bug or a Trabant....that's more their speed.

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