Wow!

Awesome video!!! Never an FE fan?? Man I had a bunch of Fairlanes and a Galaxies that were 427 powered. 428 could never quite measure up imo. Wished I had all the FE stuff I gave away and sold.
 
bobwhite said:
any photos? be cool to see them.
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Back then I never even thought of taking photos, I never thought it would end lol. I may have a photo of my 69 mach 1 I had a 428CJ in, I had a ton of work in that engine and it just would not preform.
 
mojo racing said:
Awesome video!!! Never an FE fan?? Man I had a bunch of Fairlanes and a Galaxies that were 427 powered. 428 could never quite measure up imo. Wished I had all the FE stuff I gave away and sold.
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Basically the 1st time I helped a buddy work on his 390 and we had to take the cast iron intake off. Never again LOL.
 
Raymond_B said:
Basically the 1st time I helped a buddy work on his 390 and we had to take the cast iron intake off. Never again LOL.
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Oh yea those things weigh a ton lol. My brother had a GT390 cougar that we had to jack the engine up to change plugs in the engine, pita!

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Raymond_B said:
Basically the 1st time I helped a buddy work on his 390 and we had to take the cast iron intake off. Never again LOL.
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very good point, but you can drop a lot of frontend weight simply by installing an alum intake. cast iron intake is WAY heavy. did a quick search and came up with 77# to 83#.
 
bobwhite said:
very good point, but you can drop a lot of frontend weight simply by installing an alum intake. cast iron intake is WAY heavy. did a quick search and came up with 77# to 83#.
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Power nation tv did an episode recently that they built a 390, they weighed the cast intake on a scale and it weighed 80 pounds, it’s insane, I guess because In a way the intake is more part of the cylinder heads on an fe than most motors.


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fe weighed about 650#. add alum intake, heads and water pump and it drops to around 560#. that's in the same neighborhood as a cast iron 351W or sbc. not too bad.
 
I remember asking my dad as a kid what fe stood for, and he told me freaking expensive lol


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The LS engines copied the cathedral ports from the FE. Today there are very expensive, back In the day you could find stuff everywhere. Now to build one like I did back then I'd have to take out a second mortgage!
 
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