Old video of two marine 427s being set free

[Qikbbstang]

This vid's ancient 2012... but cool regardless due to its contribution to the Marine FE 427's lore.

 I have long wondered if the saw stunt toasted that chainsaw's blade on ( I presume) the Chris Craft utilized brass screws?....

  To me a SAWZ-ALL with demolition blade would have been a more proper tool for the job?..................

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             I purchased my pair from a guy I met at a Fun Ford Weekend (he had them at FFW where they didn't sell).  I still have my pair of genuine marine c8AE-A casting number 427 Side Oiler's that came out of a big Chris Craft (usually they are drilled as Center Oilers as most know) My SO blocks also have  reliefs machined into the top of the bores to clear I suspect the 427 High Riser and 427 Tunnel Port heads big valves?............The lifter galley's were plugged with hammer'd in steel pins to stop oil flow - solids.

           
     ======   Interesting notes: the two inboard valve covers (in video) are the tall "Pent-Roof" versions, while the two outboard valve covers are the plain-Jane Power By FORD automotive style versions == With two marine motors I ended up with one pair (oil filler/PCV/baffle equipped) unique Marine Pent-Roof* valve covers and it looks like this "saw-meister" did to.  I'm fairly sure the vid shows this at 4:40.


      A major problem of getting the marine 427s is the cost of disposing of the engine-less hull...



* which just so happen to be the ones the potential new boat's owner would have seen if he looked into the engine bay -- much more difficult to see the outboard VCs  -- plain POWERED By FORDs . So was it a clearance to hull issue or simply cheaper valve cover nobody would see anyway?....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRDV8TuVciU

[Lowrider]

Just saw that video over on the ranchero.us site. Some of the bozo's over there trashed the FE. A few of us set them straight.

[Qikbbstang]

  I love the RANCHERO guys forever.. Years ago I bought a NOS Gas Tank Cap with a bulls head on it. I searched RANCHERO on ebay to ID what I had and found while searching a "RANCHERO 429 intake".  It was a SK piece 429CJ/SCJ single plain intake flanged for a Dominator and felt so light you'd thought it was magnesium. It bid on a Thursday at 11:00AM I snipe'd it with crazy money on it and got it for a tiny fraction of what crazy money I'd thrown at the bid. Turned out to be a prototype from the Hemi weight penalty conventional wedge no penalty era just before the 351C's owned NASCAR.
 There was no action on the auction due to the doofy listing.  I actually talked to the seller who said: "found it in a Ranchero in a junk yard."
Eventually sold it on ebay for crazy money.

=============Any wonder the Ranchero guys laugh at FEs?=======================