![]() ![]() I'm no different from most of the other motorheads on this forum, having wrenched on hot rods for 50 years, doing most everything from stock rebuilds to drag race motors, front end/rear end rebuilding to clip swaps, frame swaps and engine swaps (my favorite). I'm retired and enjoy putting together combinations on my playtoy, DynoSim version 4.20 software. Jeff picked the cam for this one after I went through 6 Comp grinds. It isn't like any of these things were in reverse compared to any other.īut the point I'm trying to get to is the FE is a plenty good place to start a build with a FoMoCo.Ĭlick to expand.Thanks Jeff, I'll just post it up here for all to see. But between the front and back of the pack the separation is in hundredths of a second. That's not to say the other guys were running inferior engines as there's plenty of mighty good hardware from the era, but you gotta get it hooked up to win. Suffered from rear spring wrap up even with bars, would have been faster if you could plant the rear tires better than it did.Įverybody else gets in line. In the quarter the fastest in order were:ġ) 454 SS Chevelle, suffered from having a 3 speed auto, would have been even faster with a 4 speed stick.Ģ) 428 FE block SCJ Mustang. Speed Channel did a shoot out of some of the 60's muscle cars. If you weren't packing a dual quad 409 or a Ram Charger 413, you were toast. ![]() But then ask how many ever came up against one. There's folks that put down the 401 horse, 3 duce, 390 of 1961/62 as being over rated. Click to expand.390, with a small amount of encouragement these things will pump 400 horses and 400 foot pounds all day long.
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