Who can tell me why this car is FTW?

[fiveohhhstang]

Just a little car trivia this evening:

 

[cobra_4]

Mercury Comet with a thunderbolt hood?

 

[Blade Runner]

Galaxy 500 with a big block?

 

[Double"O"]

is that one of the 7 liter galaxies???

either way thats ish is SHARP!

 

[fiveohhhstang]

Mercury Comet with a thunderbolt hood?

Nope

Galaxy 500 with a big block?

Closer

is that one of the 7 liter galaxies???

either way thats ish is SHARP!

Double O wins!

 

[Double"O"]

:dancenana::dancenana:epper:epper:

 

[ninjastang]

dude has a porn 'stache?

 

[dino lord]

Galaxy 500 with a big block?

is that one of the 7 liter galaxies???

either way thats ish is SHARP!

OP: isn't the 7 liter(aka 429) a big block?

 

[Blade Runner]

OP: isn't the 7 liter(aka 429) a big block?

I thought so too.....:shrug:

 

[fiveohhhstang]

It's a SOHC 427 car, not a 429 car.


That's right, Ford had a 2v back in the mid 60s.

 

[LIGHTNING LARRY]

dude has a porn 'stache?

A great old muscle car and you're looking at the guys face???oke:

 

[Blade Runner]

Wait.....the 427 "Cammer" was never offered as a factory option in any cars...Just as an engine that could be purchased and stuffed into whatever your insane brain could dream up. Right?

 

[SID297]

It's a SOHC 427 car, not a 429 car.


That's right, Ford had a 2v back in the mid 60s.

I tried to order one over the counter a while back but the dealer was out of stock.

 

[SublimeRT]

Wait.....the 427 "Cammer" was never offered as a factory option in any cars...Just as an engine that could be purchased and stuffed into whatever your insane brain could dream up. Right?

There were the '65 A/FX Mustangs that came with 427 SOHC motors.

 

[fiveohhhstang]

The Ford Single Overhead Cam (SOHC) 427 V8 engine, familiarly known as the Cammer[citation needed], was released in 1964 to recapture NASCAR dominance from the Chrysler 426 Hemi engine. The Chrysler 426 used extremely large block casting that dwarfed the earlier 392 Hemi. The Ford 427 block was closer dimensionally to the early Hemi's than to the elephantine 426 hemi (Ford FE bore spacing: 4.63"; Chrysler 392 bore spacing: 4.5625"; Ford FE deck height: 10.17"; Chrysler 392 deck height: 10.87"...the 426 Hemi has a deck height of 10.72" and bore spacing of 4.8" by comparison --- both Chrysler hemi's have decks more than a 1/2" taller than the FE).

The engine was based on the ultra high performance 427 side-oiler block, in the Ford FE engine family, providing race-proven durability[citation needed][original research?]. The block and associated parts were largely unchanged, the main difference being use of an idler shaft instead of the camshaft in the block, which necessitated plugging the remaining camshaft bearing oiling holes.

The heads were newly-designed cast iron items with hemispherical combustion chambers and a single overhead camshaft on each head, operating shaft-mounted roller rocker arms. The valvetrain consisted of valves larger than those on Ford wedge head engines, made out of stainless steel and with sodium-filled exhaust valves to prevent the valve heads from burning, and dual valve springs. This design allowed for high volumetric efficiency at high engine speed.

The idler shaft in the block in place of the camshaft was driven by the timing chain and drove the distributor and oil pump in conventional fashion, with the same practical limit of about 7,000 rpm for the stock oil pump (a maximum of 20.5 US gallons (78 L) of SAE 40W per minute at 70 psi (480 kPa). An additional sprocket on this shaft drove a second, six foot long timing chain, which drove both overhead camshafts. The length of this chain made precision timing of the camshafts a problem at high rpm and necessitated a complex system of idlers[citation needed].

The engine also had a then-state-of-the-art transistorized ignition system, running 12 amps of current through a high voltage ignition coil.

All these engines were essentially hand-built with racing in mind[citation needed]. Combustion chambers were fully machined to reduce variability[citation needed]. Nevertheless, Ford recommended blueprinting the engines before use in racing applications[citation needed]. They were rated at 615 hp (458 kW) at 7,000 rpm with a single four-barrel carburetor, and 657 hp (490 kW) at 7,500 rpm with dual four barrel carburetors. Ford sold them via the parts counter, the single four-barrel model as part C6AE-6007-363S, the dual carburetor model as part C6AE-6007-359J for $2350.00 (as of October, 1968)[citation needed]. Weight of the engine was 680 lb (308 kg)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_FE_engine#427_SOHC_.22Cammer.22

IIRC, the Galaxies with the teardrop hoods, as pictured above, were available with them.

657 horse in 64!

 

[Blade Runner]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_FE_engine#427_SOHC_.22Cammer.22

LMAO.....I was just looking at that.....:lol:

 

[dino lord]

It's a SOHC 427 car, not a 429 car.


That's right, Ford had a 2v back in the mid 60s.

i thought the cammer was still a big block?


and of course they had a 2v. every pushrod ford has built was a 2v!

 

[MissionMan]

looks like a pontiac solstice IMO

 

[Blade Runner]

Standard 428 in³ FE engines were fitted to Galaxies (badged simply as '7 Litre') and Thunderbirds in the 1966 and 1967 model years

 

[ninjastang]

A great old muscle car and you're looking at the guys face???oke:

sorry but I wouldn't call that "great". not aesthetically appealing to me, and I dont care what kind of engine it has.