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I have a FE powered. FoX. Not hard to do canton rear sump pan & pick up got the headers and motor mounts from RCI headers from cocamomga Ca they use a reg 1020. Truck mout bolted to them drops right in j Brown got a quick glimpse of it at the 2021. FE reunion ulgy brown fox my 428 is retired. Building 482. 427 stroker for it now have a 9.1. 390 in it at the moment just a 274 hyd. Runs 7.80s. In the 1/8. C6 trans with the 390. At 89 mph the 428. Ran 103. In the 1/8. Would actually like to see if I could get a set of J.s. SE. Heads. For my 482 I'm building if he has any gir saleJust did a search for RCI Headers and evidently, they are no more. Sounded like it was pretty much a one-man show, and he passed away in 2022. My condolences to his family.
Even better is if you can find a factory manual brake Fairmont/Zephyr/Mustang/Capri setup at a wrecking yard. The manual pedal is different, and pivots in a lower hole in the pedal bracket (both holes are in the bracket.). My Fairmont was a factory manual steering and brakes car from the factory, but I have converted other power brake cars to manual, using all the factory parts. If you find a manual brake doner car , get the brake pedal, master cylinder, aluminum firewall adapter, and the distribution block and brake lines from the master to the dist. block. With all the aftermarket manual brake conversions kits that I have seen, they retain the power brake pedal, so you are giving up the extra mechanical advantage built into the factory setup, which has much more leverage. My Fairmont has the factory manual setup, with 11" 5.0 Mustang discs up front, and 11" drums out back, and it stops fine at most dragstrips, from 134 MPH. Yes, the pedal effort is obviously higher than with power brakes, but hardly objectionable, if you are familiar with manual brakes.There're no wrecking yards anywhere in my area anymore, unfortunately, so finding factory stuff locally is a no-go for me personally.