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| RE: 1960 352hp not a 306 cam |
| By Mike McQuesten - 07/22/2001 8:36:50 PM; IP 63.50.126.220 |
I want to thank everyone for all the information on the HP 352/390. As you can readily see I'm in the learning process on these cars. And I thought I were so smart! I was just a punk of 13 when my neighbor/friend came running over one day telling me that I had to come see what his big brother had traded in his '60 Impala for.....a '61 Rangoon Red SUNliner w/390/tri-power-401 horse, stick & O.D. It was gorgeous. He installed a set of chrome reverse/ with new 1" white sidewalls, and a set of glasspacks. You can imagine how "killer" this car was. The older bro took us to our first drag races in '63. There was a great running 406/405 kicking butt that particular day. Actually out performing a '63 1/2 427/425 car. I knew what they were even at 15. To give the 427 a break, the early '63 406 car had traction bars, dump out exhaust and a great 4 speed shifting driver. The 427 car appeared to be brand new which made sense since this was like late April, '63.
My good friend, John Saxon, now owns my old '61 Starliner that we installed his 427 built to look like a 390/401. I've got a decent '60 Starliner w/352-4V(NOT an HP) with stick & O.D. It's a donor for the few pieces I need on my Sunliner, i.e., all of the original column shift items. We're going to get out the levels/measuring tapes and check those engine mount angles, etc. I'm sure glad to know/learn this.
Also I was very surprised to learn that the early HP FE cams were a 276 degree duration cam. I'd always ASS-U-ME-'d that the '52-'06 had the 306 cam. There were magazine reports of these early 352's reving in the mid 6,000s. John and I ran a 324 degree cam in his 427 and it was done by 6,500.
My Sunliner came with a Fenton 500 floor conversion that the previous owner had installed in '63. I was tempted to leave it as it was drag raced from '63 - '68 but I decided I should put this one back semi-correct. Yup. a '60 4,000 lb. plus drag rag. See, there are those of us who liked cars before Mustangs!
Thanks again to all for the valued information. And yes Linden, I'd be proud to have my '60 featured on your fabulous site. When it's ready. It's all painted original Yosemite Yellow. The 427 is done(looks just like a 352HP with COAE-D heads &correct intake/carb, etc. Trans is done. 4.56 N case w/28 splines done. Traction Masters. It's just all over my shop in boxes, jars, cans, etc. All I have to do is glue it together the way we'd do an AMT model many years ago. I'm going to shut this computer down and go work on it right now. |
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