<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: 91Warrior357

well....then maybe if you stretch the frame a little bit you can fit a 289 in there...lol</end quote></div>

Ah.. a 289 is hardly a big block... Now stuff a 460 (7.5L) in there and now you are Talking!! Better yet, stuff 428 with a sixpack (no not beer) in your ATV if you want Torque.. Those FE Engines had torque I tell ya!

 

hey i had a 77 ford f-250 that had a 428 fe engine with a holley carb and hedman headers, it looked horrible but it had a 4 speed granny tranny and damn that thing was a torque monster

 

ha ha FE? the worst thing Ford ever did! How about a LS7 now thats sweet! Chevrolet power! Ford just circled their problems at least chevrolet put a band-aid on them!! ha ha... no i do have to say ford does have some pretty good designs but not near as many as chevrolet

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: SweetWheelieGuy7

ha ha FE? the worst thing Ford ever did! How about a LS7 now thats sweet! Chevrolet power! Ford just circled their problems at least chevrolet put a band-aid on them!! ha ha... no i do have to say ford does have some pretty good designs but not near as many as chevrolet</end quote></div>

Actually Ford was quite successful with the FE family of engines.. That is were the 406 and the 428 came from... The 406's used to have Tri-power in the T-birds... quite a potent engine... How can you say the 428 was a bad thing? great engine -- gobs of torque! Also Ford made Cross-bolted 4 bolt mains as the blocks for those engines was down to the top of the main bearing caps... meaning that the sides of the caps were supported by the casting of the block..

I put 245,000 miles on the 360 FE which was the original engine in my 1970 Ford F-100 pickup. The next junkyard FE I bought for $300 lasted another 100,000 miles..

So I will disagree with your "Worst thing comment". Also you can't compare a 2006 Designed LS7 against an engine that was designed back before both of us were born? (1958). I agree that Chevy makes a potent engine for the corvettes.. but the FE engines has stood the test of time.

 

i dont dislike any of the manufactures engines whether dodge, chevy,or ford they all got nice engines, also the 352 FE engines were pretty nice too i believe

 

The amount of reverse engineering and inspection you would have to do in order to make your own cam that would not blow up your engine is not worth it. Buy from a source that has done all this leg work for you.

 

yes the cross bolt mains good idea, but still poor design, the oil pan rail goes like 3 inches past the crank centerline, really heavy casting, the 427 top oiler, bad idea! tunnel port heads! might be good for HD truck but not for racing, SOHC in the 60's yes good idea, ford TFI ign. terrible hard to work on. but all have good and bad, i can pick apart goods and bads about every push rod engine, but i'm a chevy guy all the way through

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: SweetWheelieGuy7
but i'm a chevy guy all the way through</end quote></div>

I like all as well.. you are probably a Democrat too huh[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] haha - joking around..

My best bud is a Chevy guy.. I am a Ford Truck guy (older pre-1970 ford car car)

 

the only fords i like are the older trucks, i dont like there new stuff, but well that actually goes for everything, i dont like hardly any of the newer vehicles, but if i had to pick one id be a Dodge guy, even though i drive a 1st generation ford ranger...lol