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| RE:In a '65? |
| By Mike McQuesten - 09/17/2001 4:13:57 PM; IP 206.193.0.120 |
| Something you need to be prepared for with this '63 406 is that it will require some minor engine mount mods to fit your '65 Galaxie. All of your questions have been in relationship to that car right? The point is to be prepared. It has been done many times..fitting a '64 and earlier block into a '65 and later Ford/Merc. I haven't done it but I know it's not a tough thing to do. The $600 for that engine is a great deal "if" it's what the boss says it is. So check it out. The 406 is a true high performance engine. Never was anything else. They were rated at 405 horses with the tri power and 385 with the single Holley 4V. All had solid lifter cams. BTW, they never had machined combustion chambers that I know of. early '58 352/332s had this feature but they don't really offer performance advantages just because of the machined chambers. Now medium/high risers had machined combustion chambers....that may be what you meant. As for cross bolted main 406s, I think a few of those blocks were cast and machined as such. But only a very few. Not very likely that the 406 you're looking at will have them. It will have the internal web bosses that makes converting to cross bolts easy...if you have a set of 427 cross bolt main caps lying around. We all do don't we? |
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