A few months back a local friend of mine contacted me, giving me the number of a guy who lived about an hour away and had a big collection of SOHC parts he wanted to sell. This gentleman had been collecting these parts since the mid 1970s, with the intention of building an SOHC powered street rod. He recently decided he was never going to get around to the project, and decided to sell. He had a lot of nice parts, but I didn't need them, so I made him a low end offer that I knew he wouldn't accept, and left.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, and he gave me a call. He'd been trying to sell the parts as a single lot, and hadn't been having any luck. He had decided to accept my offer, if it was still available. At the price I had offered him, I just couldn't pass up the deal. Today I got the parts. Here are some pictures, and yes, that is a brand new, in the Ford box, 427 sideoiler block:
Two sets of factory SOHC heads, one iron, and one the extremely rare aluminum factory heads. Those are magnesium valve covers. There are three timing covers, one 4V intake, one 8V intake, a complete set of factory adjustable rockers, one set of factory cams and another set of cams of unknown origin (maybe Crane?), water pumps, a complete set of pistons, timing chains and gears, pulleys, you name it. Also thrown in was the complete 406 tripower setup, some valve covers (the FE valve covers are new in the Ford boxes), and FE cam and lifters (also new in the Ford boxes), etc. etc. Here are some more pictures:
There are enough SOHC specific parts here to make a complete, factory SOHC engine, except for the crank, rods, block (the new block is a normal factory block, not SOHC specific), and factory carb, and I happen to have one of the factory carbs for the 4V setup. The only downsides are that one of each of the heads has been damaged and repaired, and one timing cover has been damaged and repaired.
I don't know what I'm going to do with this stuff, but right now it looks pretty cool just sitting on the floor of my shop
