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To: Hootowl99

That would be FORD’s FE engine, replaced in the mid 70s by the 335 ( 351 ) Cleveland engine, and the 385 engine family.


20 posted on 12/28/2011 4:52:25 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Cleveland’s are the same block as the 460?

News to me... and my dad worked at Cleveland Engine in Brookpark for 35 years


24 posted on 12/28/2011 5:42:51 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
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To: American Constitutionalist
The FE block series included the 352, 360, 390, and 428. IIRC, the 460 was a different design, and superior to the 400 modified (which stunk for northern latitudes).

I never built a 351, but I have built FE block engines, mostly 390s.

25 posted on 12/28/2011 5:50:21 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: American Constitutionalist
“That would be FORD’s FE engine, replaced in the mid 70s by the 335 ( 351 ) Cleveland engine, and the 385 engine family.”

Yeah, the 460 continued into the 80’s sometime in trucks. I had one in a heavy duty 1978 F-150 that was rated for 10K lb towing. 12 mpg in town, 12 mpg empty on the highway and 12 mpg towing 5000 lb of full keeled sailboat on the highway. It just loafed along. Also, as a heavy duty truck engine, it was exempt from the whacked out air pump, cat converter, etc. pollution control stuff that killed the big V8s in automobiles

In 1969 I was in high school and a friend's mother was hauling several of us in her new Continental to a school extracurricular thing about 120 miles away in NW Oklahoma. While on a 60 mile straight stretch of US highway, I was in the back seat and looked over the front seat and saw she had the cruise control on at 110 mph. No sensation at all of the speed in that big barge.

30 posted on 12/28/2011 7:45:35 PM PST by Hootowl99
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