Posted on 01/06/2019 3:22:59 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
See post 33.
Wasn't there a muscle variant of it that could do well over 150MPH?
I have a near pristine similar car, the Grand Marquis with dual exhausts etc. Not quite a Marauder but close. It is more like driving your living room but easily impresses the youngsters and gets 27 mpg. One of the best cars ever made. The B body from GM was in the same league.
“From what I understand ...”
Incorrect. After delivery drilled holes were not sealed allowing carbon monoxide to enter ecspeciallialy during idling while parked.
I think it was a 425, at least that is what the guy that bought it for a race car said it was.
I never knew until I went to the auto parts store for a new carb, the carb for a 352 wouldn’t fit, but it had 352 valve covers.
That car had NO top end! At about 125 it would start floating all over the road, but it had pedal left.
It was pretty fast, but it still had the crappy station wagon transmission.
In 1984 my father bought a Caprice Classic. It had a 350 V8 with a four barrel carb. Basically the same engine and transmission they used in cop cars. My that was quick.
In 1989 he traded that in for another Caprice although this one had a 305 and the 2 bbl.
Why, Dad, why?
“Shut the gate on this one Maxie and it’s the ducks guts.”
Ah that sounds more like it. The description “cinching it up” I’m sure involved drilling holes.
A while back my son was on the Interstate and panicked for a moment when a Crown Vic rode up on his ass. It passed him and the relief turned to a laugh as the personal license plate read, NOTACOP.
If you search enough you will find that the 64 Ford police inceptor 427 was really a 425 and it was made for racing only.
http://www.theclassicford.com/1964_Ford_Engines.htm
I think you are confusing cubic inches and horsepower.
When someone identifies an engine they just about always indicate cubic inch displacement (now Liters). Sometimes they may fudge a tiny bit but generally the cubic inch rating will be accurate, at least with an inch.
Horsepower can be stated in all kinds of ways. Many times what you get is nowhere near what is indicated on a dynamometer. Interestingly they often understate it.
Sometimes they measure it with all accessories such as alternator etc. removed. Sometimes at the wheels.
I didn’t see a single 425 on that list. 2 X 406, 2 X 427.
I do know that Ford built a few different 427’s, a couple of 428’s and a couple 429’s.
I’d not heard of a Ford 425 until you mentioned it.
Same with Yahoo:
I’ll bet the maintenance costs are substantial.
You can’t blame Ford for improper mods
“The 406-cu.in. V-8s were replaced in 1963 1/2 models by the new 427-cu.in. V-8 that used a 4.23 x 3.78-inch bore and stroke (This engine actually displaced 425 cubic inches, but marketing considerations dictated using the 427).”
https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/mus/2004/12/Ford-Galaxie-500XL—1963-1964/1281003.html
Hemmings made Ford racing engines, and that was in some of the 64 Ford police inceptors.
I didn’t know what it was until a guy a the auto parts store, who was also race car driver, came out in the parking to look at it because the new carb I bought for it wouldn’t fit. The guy went wild saying it was a special build Hemmings race engine, a 425!
see 55.
Well you learn something new every day.
Still it is always called the 427.
Cop who shot Minneapolis woman was precinct's first Somali officer
“Still it is always called the 427.”
Except the racing engines, they knew it was a 425.
I’m NOT a wrench wizard, far from it. I don’t even work on my own cars.
I only knew about this one because it came from the factory with a engine that wasn’t supposed to be in it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.