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RE: 390 v 427 side oiler info
By P - 06/06/2001 5:28:52 PM; IP 64.3.243.34
There are quite a few 427 blocks out there. There are the true side-oilers, which are expensive due to the long drilled passages, with side drilled taps into bearings; there are the hi po side oilers with the fully communicated crank, that acts as yet another oil gallery; there are marine 427 blocks many of which (not all) are cast as side oilers but not fully machined, so they are the "center oiler" or "top oiler" version; then there's the bastard two-bolt hydraulic cammed 427 built in small quantity for the 1968 Cougar GTE, only 358 of which were built with this detuned 390-HP version of the 427.

Now I always thought the history books said the 406 testing program was what caused Ford (according to engineer Scussel) to build a 4-bolt (cross bolted) 406 and then 427. I have heard there are a few cross bolted 390's, but these must have been built from the 427 castings or something, on a custom race-only basis by Ford or Holman Moody.

the guys are right, there's nothing you can do to a normal 390 to make it a side oiler, due to the fact that it wasn't cast as a side oiler with the appropriate bulge in the driver side of the block. Of course, there are kits to do this, for a price, but they rely on external plumbing, etc.

Ford once said, and Shelby seemed to agree, that a side-oiler in anything other than a full race machine is a waste of good machinery. For those guys, "full race" means endurance racing like Daytona, Sebring, LeMans, and NASCAR.

P
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 RE: 390 side oiler Question. -- Paul, 06/05/2001
 RE: 390 side oiler Question. -- R.C.V., 06/05/2001
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=6677&Reply=6664><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor6677" onclick="return false;">RE: 390 side oiler Question.</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>John R. Barnes, <i>06/05/2001</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=6677', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor6677') }); </script>  RE: 390 side oiler Question. -- John R. Barnes, 06/05/2001
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 RE: 390 side oiler Question. -- John R. Barnes, 06/06/2001
Collapse <b>RE: 390 v 427 side oiler info</b>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>P, <i>06/06/2001</i></font>RE: 390 v 427 side oiler info -- P, 06/06/2001
 Thank you all for the expert info and the feedback -- Ray Figueroa, 06/06/2001
 All Cougar GTE's were cross bolted side oilers. -- Royce Peterson, 06/06/2001
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