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12-12-2014, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Looks beautiful. It's just a crime not to put an FE in a 427 body car. Why go to all that time and expense and then drop the ball before crossing the goal line? Yeah, yeah, yeah "small blocks can make just as much power" or "FEs are too maintenance prone" or "FEs weigh more" or "I saved a boat load of dough using a small block" or any of a thousand other excuses -- I just don't know why somebody would do it.  |
12-12-2014, 12:58 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 539, a Ton of Aluminum
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Quote:
Originally Posted by patrickt
Looks beautiful. It's just a crime not to put an FE in a 427 body car. Why go to all that time and expense and then drop the ball before crossing the goal line? Yeah, yeah, yeah "small blocks can make just as much power" or "FEs are too maintenance prone" or "FEs weigh more" or "I saved a boat load of dough using a small block" or any of a thousand other excuses -- I just don't know why somebody would do it. |
You forgot one.
"To annoy Patrick."
Get rid of the SB and get rid of the hood scoop. Sorry to all those 427 Street roadsters out there with hood scoops, but there should be no scoop on that thing.  |
12-12-2014, 03:24 PM
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Location: Ottawa,
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Cobra Make, Engine: 2002 Superformance w/392 stroker
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Quote:
Originally Posted by patrickt
Looks beautiful. It's just a crime not to put an FE in a 427 body car. Why go to all that time and expense and then drop the ball before crossing the goal line? Yeah, yeah, yeah "small blocks can make just as much power" or "FEs are too maintenance prone" or "FEs weigh more" or "I saved a boat load of dough using a small block" or any of a thousand other excuses -- I just don't know why somebody would do it. |
AC 289 Sports, anyone...?
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12-12-2014, 04:14 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
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Originally Posted by SunDude
AC 289 Sports, anyone...?
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Now that's nice!! |
12-12-2014, 05:32 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF 2932 with 438 Lykins Motorsports engine. Previous owner of FFR 5452.
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I agree. It looks like a mix between the street car and the 427 sc. And it doesn't do either justice.
Don't like the hood scoop, wheels or tan interior. Valve covers say 427. I think it would have been better to stick with one or the other models and not mix them up.
Just my opinion.
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12-20-2014, 06:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by patrickt
... It's just a crime not to put an FE in a 427 body car ...
- small blocks can make just as much power
- FEs weigh more
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SAI - Following the FIA World Manufacturing Championship in 1965, Shelby American began work on upgrading our signature roadster design. In 1966 we debuted the 427 S/C, our most powerful high-performance roadster, for street and competition (S/C).
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Originally Posted by AL427SBF
... With today's replicas how do you meet Shelby's intent back in '66, you replicate the 427 body and put a 427 SB in it
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Originally Posted by patrickt
Well that made no sense whatsoever, but, OK ...
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Power to weight ratio was the name of the game back then = Shelby's intent with the 427 CID.
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12-20-2014, 06:26 PM
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But what about the tears in the kids' eyes when you open your hood at car shows and they see that it's "only another small block?" I'm sorry but I just can't do that to them.... |
12-20-2014, 06:46 PM
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But what about the tears in the kids' eyes when you open your hood at car shows and they see that it's "only another small block?" I'm sorry but I just can't do that to them.... |
Then do not, I repeat DO NOT tell them you destroked yours to make it spin up like SB 
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