I love FEs. I built a. .020over. 390 32 years ago and put it in my 65 Galaxie and it still runs really good. No blowby, leaks and it still pulls 503 hp. It screams like a banshee.
@LanceisLawson Жыл бұрын
I get a kick out of the "Never working on a Ford" Well I'm perhaps one of the few people who campaigned 427FE and it got almost booring the number of Bowtie cars my FE dusted. You see so many Chevies because they're cheap to buy and cheap to build. The only cars that were a challenge to my 427 were big block MOPARs (read Hemis) and many of them crossed the finish line after me.
@RyanBenbowАй бұрын
I don't refuse to work on the Ford. If it Is a demolition derby car
@eddiefe42811 ай бұрын
Love fe engines, they should start building them again
@alertgasper6 ай бұрын
Ford did--it was the 4.6 litre cross bolted V8, or if you want, the 5.4 litre. and the Teksid block handled 1,000 hp at the crankshaft.
@danakraushaar360610 ай бұрын
The offset of oiling hole to crank bearing is by design. It flows enough. Only in a race only FE is it of any benefit of concern. It was like this throughout the FE’s very long production
@pa2922 Жыл бұрын
Love the old show! Very cool
@CJColvin Жыл бұрын
Imagine both the Aluminium heads and intake manifold we're all ported and polished, it would've made even more horsepower and it would've been a great swap for an old F100 or a 64 Galaxie or heck even some Canadian Fords like the Meteor Montcalm, Meteor Rideau 500, Monarch Richelieu, Monarch Lucerne, Meteor Ranchero, and the Mercury M100 (which is a Canadian version of the Ford F100).
@swampcritterisbackbaby1740 Жыл бұрын
Perfect for a mid 70's T-Bird.
@BlakeBusbee-pr4ig Жыл бұрын
That's the best looking Mustang I've ever seen
@cgarris8674 Жыл бұрын
WOW - Flashback to 2006! I wonder what Joe & Chuck are doing these days?
@Gooseo2000 Жыл бұрын
Joe is on Detroit Muscle with Tommy Boshers......never seen the other guy..... probably passed away ....from clogged arteries
@garyholladay9476 Жыл бұрын
old school ford big block! awesome video!
@joemulatto19 Жыл бұрын
Edelbrocks are OK but they require a TON of port massaging. I would go trick flow if i did it again.
@tylermartin2631 Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love FE engines I’ve heard countless stories of people trying to kill those engines and eventually started burning as much oil as gas
@karljay7473 Жыл бұрын
I remember this way back when, they never finished that engine, but I'd guess it was targeted to an old TBird. Not a bad build, but there's so many more options they could have taken. The 428 crank, port matching, even cranks that get you into the 500 range. At least they did something different.
@rickdemorgan8951 Жыл бұрын
Use melling 57b cobra jet oil pump, and a C6oe gt/cj camshaft, put the .090 restrictor in oil passage to rocker arms.
@DirtyHarryLarryDickman7 ай бұрын
I like the shiteatin grin they both give when they say their little pun before the commercial break.
@kalgstolАй бұрын
God speed Mr. Elmore.
@barbarianbohl91647 ай бұрын
i wish one of these shows would actually do an FE motor with real high end ProFormance like my motor about all i could a-ford no pun intended carbs CFM 850 CFM and it may not be enough a lot of cam beefy bottom and top about the only thing original are covers and block and crank. original stroker 428 crank in my Third motor. i would love to see you guys spend some reasonable high dolor massive power like mine.
@brianwolent959310 ай бұрын
Guys.... NEVER funnel the main bearings to try and line up the oil hole. Funnel the block. I have been building FE since they have been around. More than 20 years experience.
@pdmustgtd10137 ай бұрын
Ford never called any of there engine families big block or small block. Either Windsor, 335, 385 or FE series. Term big block and small block was GM thing
@peggyseefeldt26387 ай бұрын
The fe engines were labeled medium block, kinda stange
@pdmustgtd10137 ай бұрын
Dad worked for Ford dealership through before and through muscle car years. He said they called them by engine cid. I have ford info calling 351C, 351M and 400 as mid blocks. But it never stuck because people seen 351C as small block and 351M/400 as big block because it had 429/460 bellhousing bolt pattern. But 335 series engine all shared Windsor bore spacing. This was how 302 Boss was bore because engineer was working on trans-am race series engine and 351C engine. Taking 351C head bolting them on 302 block
@johngreene6783 Жыл бұрын
These guys always have the most corny scripts ever LOL
@ltwig476 Жыл бұрын
Can't believe these guys didn't open up the oil hole to match the oil pump before putting this short block together. I suspect they didn't do the rest of the oil mods to the starving bottom end. Should always read Barry's book on FE before spending hard earned money on a performance FE build.
@garygates5679 Жыл бұрын
AWESOME VIDEO ... !!!!!
@FESpecialties11 ай бұрын
130 Ft/lbs!! WHAT!! You guys are so wrong! 130# is for 460 based motors, not FE’s! You guys are really hard to watch! Total disaster!!
@dinadaughtry899311 ай бұрын
Never seen an FE guy tighten up the intake before making sure that the distributor will drop all the way in, guess luck is with them
@crippleguy4153 ай бұрын
F E = FUN ENGINES 😃👍🏻🇺🇸
@FESpecialties11 ай бұрын
Never install a cam after the crankshaft! You always install the cam first so you can guide the camshaft in first and not nick the cam bearings!! Good grief! What a disaster!!
@peggyseefeldt26387 ай бұрын
Never install the snout threw the timing cover seal and install dry.
@peggyseefeldt26387 ай бұрын
Installing aftermarket intakes need to be fit in many cases. Don't just bolt her down.
@YoSmoked Жыл бұрын
Whoever’s reading this, I pray that whatever your going through gets better and whatever your struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine 💖
@GTP427cobra Жыл бұрын
FE stands for FORD EDSEL engine
@dinadaughtry899311 ай бұрын
Myth
@peggyseefeldt26387 ай бұрын
Now days it means.fords expensive.
@geoffmcnew58634 ай бұрын
My FE is 428-SCJ in a 1969 Mach 1 that's pretty low - 49" at the roof top and you can just squeeze a fist between it and the pavement = Headers DO NOT WORK in these cars - not only because of ground clearance, but because of the "grind-to-fit" (32) Stage-8 cap screws required to seal Hooker long-tubes to your Edelbrock or medium riser CJ heads...and, they still hit the reinforced shock towers on the passenger side! So, you must run cast iron CJ manifolds, which limits your camshaft fantasies. I'm running 12:1 custom Auto-Tec pistons and Comp Cams "milder" solid roller cam, which has 292 deg. duration, 110 lobe centers and 0.645" lift....runs like hell from 3,500-5,900.
@howardcameron15419 ай бұрын
FE element symbol for Iron one heavy beast.
@FESpecialties11 ай бұрын
My goodness! Totally incorrect assembly processes and totally mismatched parts! Never use a 2105 intake with RPM HEADS! Good grief!!
@peggyseefeldt26387 ай бұрын
7105 would be a better match
@MrBoondocker247 Жыл бұрын
I sure miss Chuck and Joe
@KevinRoadrageGarage Жыл бұрын
I miss Chuck
@lukemeier1853 Жыл бұрын
Why doesn't the oil hole match up?
@karljay7473 Жыл бұрын
The FE was known to have oil issues. There was a few common tricks to get the FE to work well. Putting a Holley carb jet into the oil feed to the top of the heads was one, and the other was to enlarge the oil passage where the pump bolts up, next was to hit the mains with a die grinder. This worked really well on these old engines.
@Bbbbad724 Жыл бұрын
@@karljay7473 it was odd, but the mismatch on the main feed holes was supposedly to meter oil from front to rear and even the floor out. It worked, they won LeMans with the 427 side oiler that way. I couldn’t leave it that way, I did what they did.
@CJColvin Жыл бұрын
Awesome video guys, Built Ford Tough 💪
@FESpecialties11 ай бұрын
You might want to lube the distributor gear before you install the distributor!! What a disaster!!
@brianclifford5881 Жыл бұрын
Thunder bird
@stevebrown6175 Жыл бұрын
Out of production for over 20 years?? Try nearly 50!!
@dtruth5769 Жыл бұрын
Whatta shame, All those good parts in probably fords ugliest mustang.
@bmstylee Жыл бұрын
No. That honor goes to the Mustang 2
@dtruth5769 Жыл бұрын
@@bmstylee close enough
@WilliamMunny-d8s4 күн бұрын
WOW MAN, ive never heard so many CHEESY lines in 20 minutes in my life!
@lukemeier1853 Жыл бұрын
What year was this filmed?
@marshallgibson8872 Жыл бұрын
1896
@faststang852 ай бұрын
Like 25 years ago. Yet some people in here are so dumb they think it's recent btw joe elmore just died.
@barbarianbohl91647 ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/apW8knV8Yq2af80 this was my best i can do on a budget of $37,000.00 and i now wish i new then what i know now. like to see you shows do something like this or better im in the rating of putting 750 shot or Maby turbos, so presser tested to handle and built to do so. i have seen new blocks now made of aluminum things that didn't exist win i was building. only runs the cost up of what i have already done.
@FESpecialties11 ай бұрын
Blue silicone!! What a complete joke!
@m721ac Жыл бұрын
First!!!
@bryangillis5183 Жыл бұрын
Boy this was a while ago lol. Thankfully better options are available now.