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MeanGene

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OMG really?
« on: July 12, 2021, 11:13:22 AM »
OMG Hillbilly Engineering! Just ran across an ad for a "427", doesn't look too bad until I came across this in the description- "The block never came with cross bolts mains so I put bolts in". Huh? So I search thru the pics, and it's obviously a marine block with the big cut through the oil gallery, and then the pic of the "bolts". Look carefully, looks like some "bolts" just screwed up against the sides of some stock main caps- there are no bolt bosses on those caps...
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2021, 11:24:13 AM »
               just a minute forgot where i laid the "27" caps  ??                                                                                                                                                                                 
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2021, 11:53:53 AM »
I'm out to the garage to convert my 390 to a 427.

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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2021, 11:55:29 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2021, 05:01:47 PM »
Wow ....

Some people ......  Yikes

I wonder what the trq spec is on that.
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2021, 05:27:39 PM »
Ha! Reminds me of a Christmas tree stand. Even my old stand used four bolts to center the tree trunk.
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2021, 06:02:24 PM »
I saw that ad was on ebay.  Getting past the redneck cross  bolts it is a later 427 block with 2 bolt mains and drilled as a top oiler, but not the HP setup, but rather the standard oiling setup without the rear mounted oil relief valve.  I have only seen one other 427 block done this way.  Guess Ford would make them any way the customer wanted.
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« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2021, 11:59:58 AM »
Well I guess those would, so one benefit might be,  ok clearly it strengthens the....  never mind.
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« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2021, 12:36:42 PM »
Properly torqued, these can be filed under "whatever blows your skirt up."
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« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2021, 03:03:51 PM »
Too bad the small blocks don't use a skirted block, I'd love to crow about having a "cross bolt 289".
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Re: OMG really?
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2021, 05:18:02 PM »
Spacers? We don't need no stinkin' spacers.
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« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2021, 06:07:08 PM »
Quote from: Falcon67 on July 13, 2021, 03:03:51 PM
Too bad the small blocks don't use a skirted block, I'd love to crow about having a "cross bolt 289".

You could weld on some 99° angle irons and use those to crossbody the block, after drilling through the sides of the oil pan....
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« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2021, 09:59:10 PM »
Nope! JB Weld them main caps to the skirts on the block.That'll work! 
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