Not So Pro 3

[Stump Shot]

Good morning moo-taters.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

It’s hard to find any of that stuff around here these days. When scrap metal got high a few years back, most everything got hauled off.

Well fair amount hanging around here yet on the fe/ft series. If they can be found cheap up here might be worth a trip to visit you

 

[Egg Shooter]

Morning all.

Today the view of the moon was more interesting than the predawn horizon.

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This is what we had going on this morning.

 

[JoeDirt]

It’s hard to find any of that stuff around here these days. When scrap metal got high a few years back, most everything got hauled off.

There is one gold mine junkyard around here that held off when scrap went up. More old cars and trucks in one place than I've ever seen. A lot of them are stripped clean but a lot of them aren't.

 

[Lightning Performance]

Save the engine block and sonic test it. We went through seven Ford FE blocks to get a good one for an FE build. Not easy to find around here. In the process we found 427 football con rods with bolts and nice 69' 390 steel crank for our build. It would pull anything with a top loader stick and 3:55 Dana 60 under a 72' F250 camper special converted to a dump body with portable sides. Very nice truck on it's third body resto now. Motor is fifteen years old or more. He put the good stuff in it to.

When it was all done at 7K all in with custom Hooker headers, a 68' 390 came up for 3k done, lol... a totaled out old T bird just done up.

Enjoy the old truck build with Bubba

Fixed

 

[Lightning Performance]

Most of the 360, I'm clueless.

Never understood why ford limited the early to mid 70’s 4x4’s to the 360. Growing up dad had a 1974 ranger f100 heavy half 390 4 barrel 4:11 posi. Neighbor had the same year truck with 360 and open rear but can’t remember gears in his but very noticeable difference power wise. Might have been lots in the gears though, if you can find a 361 or 391 you can machine the front of the crank down for counterbalance set up and run the forged steel crank in a 360 block. Well I guess the 361 crank I don’t know if a 391 would work for sure. Just knew few guys that did it when I was a kid.

I'm no Ford guy but I'm told the 360 is a de-stroked 390 with the same 390 pistons. We found this to be true in every 360 we took apart. One guy said it was for the same motor to be used in third world countries to run on 78-85 crappy grade fuels. It does make senses but the quench area is just sad. The gas mileage wasn't a big issue by 75'. No one gave a *f-word after the 73' gas shortage. I owned all of these in trucks and any of the 390's of any vintage was superior to the lacking 360 with 8-1 compression ratios. The 69' Cleveland 351 I put in the 77' Ford 4x4 with homebrew mounts was a axle breaking driveshaft pitching runner! Two barrel top end wif a top loader trans.

 

[USMC615]

Morning goons!

 

[Stump Shot]

Most of the 360, I'm clueless.


I'm no Ford guy but I'm told the 360 is a de-stroked 390 with the same 390 pistons. We found this to be true in every 360 we took apart. One guy said it was for the same motor to be used in third world countries to run on 78-85 crappy grade fuels. It does make senses but the quench area is just sad. The gas mileage wasn't a big issue by 75'. No one gave a *f-word after the 73' gas shortage. I owned all of these in trucks and any of the 390's of any vintage was superior to the lacking 360 with 8-1 compression ratios. The 69' Cleveland 351 I put in the 77' Ford 4x4 with homebrew mounts was a axle breaking driveshaft pitching runner! Two barrel top end wif a top loader trans.

360 FE is a 390 with a 352 crankshaft. Other parts of the World, Ford uses a lot of old USA parts up. Frugal they are.

 

[Lightning Performance]

360 FE is a 390 with a 352 crankshaft. Other parts of the World, Ford uses a lot of old USA parts up. Frugal they are.

Now that makes perfect sense, Ford man.

My dads buddy is aces with those 427 types.
He likes the nasty old side oilers that drive like chit but but... get froggy with the pedal and you'll end up in ditch. Two speeds cruising and wtf... His 71' fastback stang was scary with that bone rattling solid motor mounts. He had some tall tunnel port goodies on it with 2x4's and a top loader. He says you can build them with a 390 block but they are a pia to fit stuff in.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

360 FE is a 390 with a 352 crankshaft. Other parts of the World, Ford uses a lot of old USA parts up. Frugal they are.

I couldn’t remember the 352 in 390 block for the 360 I do like the fe blocks actually over probably my favorite fore engine for some reason even though they’re heavy they are also very strong. Just many combinations of cranks and rods with bore change to get the different motors. Made a 406,410, 427 and the 428 besides the 332,352,360 and 390. The 427 side Oiler was one of the first if not the first with cross bolted mains through the block skirt.

 

[cuinrearview]

I'm probably in the minority, but I'm a 385 series fan myself. My buddy had a very mild '69 429 in his 78 bronco. I helped him swap tires at th mud runs one year. From 33s up to 44s, that thing never missed a beat. The '72 460 in my '79 Bronco on "only" 31s got me home from work after 2nd one night with drifts coming over the hood.

 

[Mastermind]

I'm probably in the minority, but I'm a 385 series fan myself. My buddy had a very mild '69 429 in his 78 bronco. I helped him swap tires at th mud runs one year. From 33s up to 44s, that thing never missed a beat. The '72 460 in my '79 Bronco on "only" 31s got me home from work after 2nd one night with drifts coming over the hood.

I'm a fan of the 460 myself.

 

[cuinrearview]

I'm a fan of the 460 myself.

Mine was nothing special, mild build with D2 heads. I threw a 750dp on it for fun one day. Only mechanical secondary carb I've ever ran. It was reeeeeally cool feeling the second aries opening up in the pedal. If I stomped on it going down the road at 60 the front raised up six inches. I definitely didn't want to give it back to my buddy that loaned it to me!

 

[huskihl]

I'm a fan of the 460 myself.

Aren’t many that have stood the hd test of time like a 460. It’s been in everything from 3/4 tons to dump trucks and millions of motorhomes

 

[dall]

Chevrolet all the way slackers
Everything is easy to remember on them

not just thrown together parts

 

[cuinrearview]

Chevrolet all the way slackers
Everything is easy to remember on them

That's because you have to. I'd betcha a can of Folger's there's more bowties than blue ovals on engine stands...

 

[DuratecMan10]

Good afternoon y'all. Lunch is done, back to the grind


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[dall]

That's because you have to. I'd betcha a can of Folger's there's more bowties than blue ovals on engine stands...

more bowties sitting in blue ovals also

 

[cuinrearview]

grind

WHY!?!?!??

 

[cuinrearview]

more bowties sitting in blue ovals also

For sure. The aftermarket has really made it easy.