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| RE: '60 HP Sunliner |
| By Mike McQuesten - 03/31/2001 2:24:18 PM; IP 63.50.126.168 |
| Thanks for asking! I've owned numerous hp/medium p(390 GT) powered vehicles over the years. Fairlanes, Comets, Galaxies. Nothing too special or rare. One kind of was. Back in '67 I picked up a early '62 390/401 Galaxie 500 for a paltry $700 off a car lot on Sandy Blvd. in Portland OR. Cleaned it. Tuned it. Sold it at a small profit to use toward tri power on my '66 GTA. Always wanted another FE powered car that came factory equipped with solid lifters. That requirement usually meant an HP or police package. My desire was fulfilled in summer of '98. A friend living close by finally let me have his old drag hag warrior from the sixties. It was the car equipped with what I wanted - Total Performance! My friend bought the '60 Sunliner, (yes there are those of us who loved cars before Mustangs) in 1962. It is a 360 horse 352 w/BW T-85 stick & Overdrive. Vern installed a Fenton 500 flooor shift conversion, home made traction bars, 4.11's replaced the stock 3.56, a Dixco Tach and went drag racing at the then local strip in Deer Park Washington. I've got pics from '63 with trophies won racing not "showing". It was his daily driver even comuting to Seattle while working a stint with Boeing. In '68 a keeper on #8 exhaust valve broke loose and you can imagine the damage done. The old rag top sat from then to '98. I've built a '63 427 short block with the standard oiling improvements, a '65 S-oiler steel crank, '63 '27 rods ARP equipped, and standard bore C3J marine pistons. These pistons have a dish similar to the early 390. This allows the use of the C0AE-D HP head (we refer to them as the figure 8 chamber due to the obvious look of the tight chamber) 1.66 CJ/427 exhaust valves. I have the original first factory aluminum intake to top the mill off. It'll look just like a stock 352 HP unless some smarty looks low and spots the cross bolts on the side of the block. I'm running a Comp 282S cam to start with but will eventually go with the stock replacement cam that Crane now grinds - the 306/500 lift cam that was the standard from '60 - '67, 353HP - 427. It's taking a full resto but it's all there with just 54,000 actual miles. It will be run on the strip more than parked on the grass at shows. That's what it was born to do....RUN!! |
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