the 390's are scarce any more and ih8chevy is right that bbf's don't get much backing or advertisement as the bbc. and while i am at it one thing that makes me sick to my stomach is the hybrid foxes runnin sbc's under the hood .if you want to build a sbc run it in a monza or vega or camaro or some **** like that not in a ford , and i feel they are played out in hot rods as well, nothin worse than looking at a beautiful 32 ford and seeing a bow tie engine in it , all just because you can get a cam from a vending machine at odd lots for 2.99 and it will ru ya for a min. i think absolutely sucks . i feel if you are going to redo a specific vehicle make you should stick with their power plant jmo.
sorry i had to let it out , you brought up the sponsor and backing thing and it just hit a nerve this morning . a guy i used to work with claimed he was a advid ford fanatic and now him and his brother are right now building a fox for wild street drag and the are useing a sbc in it i went and looked at the car , spit a big ole luggy on it got in my truck and went home , such a put down to ford and mustang totally !
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no no ur right, we are all tired of this ****. but it would require ford getting off its ass and starting to support hte bb world much more, then the sb world will follow.
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thats what im going do. and when i get more money im going to buy a 69 chevelle and drop a bbf in it. I love them cars but always knew that the motor was wrong
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haha thats awesome, there was a guy who put a 351 cleveland in a 80 trans am and would beat up the chevy guys all the time and they would get real pissed. back in the day dandy dick landy put a big in hemi in a 63 vette, that got a lot of attention from the bowtie nuts especially when it won the all chevy show it was at.
yeh that camareo is a 10.50 car . i have heard rumor of ford makeing a 490 . i have never seen one or found specs on one in any books do you know if it really exist's or not . i have seen the 360's 352's and such but never this suposed 490.my uncle swears he had one in an old ford truck he had but i just want to be sure as you know how people are they get engine size mixed up . i had a guy tell me once his s-10 had a 350 v-6 in it
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i havent heard of the 490 but it may have existed in the "M" series motors. I cant be sure so dont quote me. a 350 v6 ehh, haha, well u should have said that ur stang was a 4 cylinder and raced him.
yeah i guess i could have told him it was only runnin on one side so i can only use every other gear . i was just wondering about that engine i have heard of it several time from several people . if any one is interested i have a built c-6 that came out of my old torino. pm me and i tell ya more .
Okay here we go.... i actually just joined soo i could post this now.lol but i was gonna any way.
the Ford 490 WAS made but it only came in like OLD dump trucks and BIG Ford trucks not available in non commercial vehicle. i got a 95 GT im putting a 500hp 429 in and gonna make the original injection system work. any questions on it let me know i got a LOT of answers and done A LOT of research. matthew
im not sure on the puter for the car really havent cared to look // will worry later lol the heads are DOVE -A ported, matched, larger valves, dual springs (matched to cam), roller rockers, 600 lift hydro cam, torker intake ported and matched, 11.5 to 1 ratio and dooe-r rods with stock crank and dove-a block :)
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