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| Its been so long...... |
| By kevin - 10/20/2002 11:28:06 AM; IP 209.240.198.62 |
| that I dont recall what the head #'s were. They were about the same as my 352-360 HP heads, yet different. I think the bowls were radiused like the HR. They had a large intake runner that was different, as well as a chamber that might as well have been a 430, LOL. They came from Hutcherson, who said they were off one of the cars out of Stroppe's shop. Louie was building the engines for the mountain, that his brothers, Parnelli, Billy Wade, and a few others drove. I was barely into it at the time I was so young. The pistons were custom ordered, and it had LeMans rods. While it was in a street car that the sponsors son had, (64 "R" code Gal) he was drunk and running from the cops, lost control, flew off a curve, moved a mobile home of its frame about 4 feet, and was hit by the cop who did the same thing. He was so drunk, he started fighting with the cop (a long rivalry) before he blacked out from loss of blood. He ended up with 180 some stitches in his face!, (I had to tell it, as some people are just flat out STUPID!). The heads ended up on my 67 427 Fairlane (after a stint on the Shelby). I sold it to a college kid (after he begged me for so long, since I built his neighbors Fairlane, and the old green eyes took over!) and he wrapped it around a tree a week later around Ames Iowa where he went to school (ISU). I never saw it, them, or him again after repeated attempts to convince his parents it was not my fault (they blamed me, HA!) and I wanted to buy it back. My 393's were simply a (std) 427 block with the same internals. They run harder yet, due to the bigger bore. Interesting enough, Nascar came up with a 400 cube limit in late 63. Ford developed the "396" for this cause. It was a HR w/TRW pistons. It had to be turned an extra 4-5 hundred RPM's to equal the 427's output, and there was concerns among the engineers it would not live due to the problems encountered with earlier failures of the FE on the track. The rule was dropped in time for the start of the 64 season, and the rest is history. I have some nifty pics of the engine, and it's unique "396" (instead of 427) flag decals on the valve covers, as well as on the cowl induction Nascar air cleaner, and would consider them one of the greatest finds for my collection. So if any of you out there have any, and want to make some money.....How are things up your way, snowing yet? I actually saw people with coats on last night at the track. I was in a T-shirt and got funny looks, as it was so cold...like 72 degrees, LOL. |
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