Tim, Have you checked compression on the bad cylinder? Try using a known good spark plug grounded to the engine while someone cranks the engine for you. AND always remember the KISS principle (Keep It Simple S-----)

When you have "a" cylinder not firing, it must be in the secondary ignition system. If you had a sporatic miss, it could be from the primary, but this is not your case. Therefore if it is an ignition problem, it must be either the plug, the wire or the distributor cap. If these are good, then you have a mechanical problem. Do you have a timing light? If so, attach it to the number 8 cylinder. Shine it on the hood and see if that cylinder is firing. Also make sure the wire is not run close to other wires, strange things can happen.

With the engine running and you wearing a thick set of isulated gloves or an insulated plug puller, slowly pull the plug wire off the plug. Once the metal connector in the socket leaves the plug's contact, the engine may smooth out. If this happens, your problem is going to be in the secondary system. Either a plug that is blowing out or a bad wire.

Agree with Ron, need to do a compression check to see if it's got a change to fire or not. New motor should be producing 150 to 180 PSI across all cylinders.

I have a cast iron that I think probably came off a big truck. If your interested, email me and I can send some pics.

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Mr F: Had you ever heard of that moon-shaped notch before? If so, does it mean just car cranks, or both?

PS-Mr F: Please explain what the (n/m) means after the years 1966-73.

the half moon is found on the 360 crank. If I remember correctly, it has to do with drilling oil passages on the shorter throw 360 crank. I don't remember the logic behind the rectangular cut out on the longer throw cranks.

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You also need to consider vacuum for power brakes and other stuff, if you have them. My 427 cam has 650 lift and a little less duration than yours, and I have 5-7 inches of vacuum. PB require 16 inches.

There were two C4AE-6250 cams......help me out here kevin! Both were over the counter. One was a radical thumper that was not suitable for most street apps whereas the other and I think it's the B grind is the one that works well on the street and on the strip.

Kevin posted great info on these two cams last spring. I printed it out and of course it's at home in that FE tech file! If kevin doesn't respond to this I'll check it out and make sure what I tell ya is correct.

I ran a C4AE-6250-B cam that was offered by Wolverine in their old Blue Racer line. Before I bought it I checked out all the specs I could find and it looked exactly like the one that Ford had offered, i.e., 324 d and 500 lift/248 lobe & 112. It turned out to be an excellent cam for the application which was in a 3,800 lb. Galaxie, 2.32 C-ratio top loader & 3.89 gearing. It idled reasonably smoothly with a nice lope and it would make a lot of torque and pull hard from 2,000 to 6,200 easily. This was in a center oiler '64 427 with C4AE-G heads/CJ-LR size valves & tri power.

Again, I believe the B cam is the streetable one. The other C4AE-6250 is the thumper you may not want. I'll check later tonight and if someone hasn't responded, I'll thumb through my file to make sure I'm not leading you astray and re-post with correct info. You may want to take advantage of that NOS cam your builder is offering.

I think is highly recommended with timing around 214' int, 224' exh, @ .050 .525/.550 112 lobe center it's good for a heavy car. My dyno said 435HP @ 5000, 510 F,P, of Torque @ 4000. I have one in a 428 65 galaxie, it runs 103 mph and is a good driver. Ray

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What is a '65 FB? Foot ball? Fuzzy Bunny?

We just finished an fe swap into a 67 fb and have started a second swap. I can't remember for sure, but I don't think an fe will clear a 65 shock towers w/o some cutting. Keep in mind the shock towers usualy need a little reinforcing to start with, both of the ones we worked with had cracks, mostly around the original welds. Also fe motor mounts are different. Its common in the 67 to redrill the frame mount to work with the fe if you have the small block ones already. The engine should fit under the hood though, I don't think my 428 cj sits any higher in my 67 than the 289 or 351w, or 351c did. Yes my 67 really has had 4 different engines in it, the high school drag racing days were'nt kind to it.
Any way I'll measure the distance between my shock towers, keep in mind there is virtualy no clearence between my headers and the shock tower, if you want to compare with your 65.
Charlie

You need the 67-70 shock towers. or you can contact Crites Restoration and buy a kit to modify you existing towers. I believe they have some thing fo that. I am doing it to my 64 Fairlane; to fit a FE.

Sorry Rich, I just couldn't help it. I liked your comment, "Is this forum strictly for Mustangs.....". I don't think it is but it may appear that all things Ford started sometime around 4/17/64. Alot of us liked Fords & cars in general before Mustangs & Camaros.

I've never 'converted' a 292 pickup to FE but I did a '61 Starliner this way. It took only a week of driving the Galaxie with the 292 and that was all for that chunk-o-iron. The Y block and cruiso were replaced by a 428 CJ/C-6. It was an extremly easy swap. But a '62 Ford pick up is a different deal I think. I'm going to check a few things this weekend to make sure but it seems to me that the Y block in a pickup had a different mount system with a mount up front and a rear engine mount as part of the transmission mount. It seems that you have to fabricate a cross member with integral mounts for the FE. I just hope someone jumps on here and gives you some specifics on doing this swap.

I do have an old magazine article from '62 that provides decent pics of how a guy installed a 406/405 hp and cruisomatic into a '62 Ford Pick up. What is obvious is that he removed the entire front engine mount cross member from a early sixties full size Ford and welded to the frame of the '62 pick up. And then he used the full size car automatic trans cross member/mount to run the cruiso. So if you want a copy of that article send me your snail mail address and I'll send you a copy. Still no scanner for me.

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4.090 X 4.090 X .7854 X 3.78 X 8 = 397.30064 cu in

probably not, but get it sonic checked and find out. hawkrod

...call John Vermeersch at Total Performance, 586-468-3710 or 586-468-3673.

Oh, I'm not kidding about the money. Expect to spend at least $35K.

Regards,
Dan

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