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From the Ford Truck Enthuiasts forum:
Obviously many of you have never read John Smith's book, "Super 60's Fords." He interviewed one of the FE engine designers (the Project engineer) who said that FE stands for Ford/Edsel and nothing else. Here is John's statement from the Ford Galaxie list:
"Here we go again. When I wrote the original "Super '60s Fords", way back in the mid-80s, I spoke with Mr. Donald Sullivan, the Project Engineer for the development of the original FE engine, the 1958 332 and 352. He told me, directly from his own mouth, that "FE" stood for "Ford/Edsel", indicating the application for which the engines were originally intended. The FE engine ranged from the 1958 332, all the way up to the 1976 360 truck
engine, and ranged in displacement from the 332 up to the 428. Some magazines referred to them as larger "Y-blocks" because of the deep block skirts, but there was absolutely no similarity between the FE and the old Y-block, except the appearance of the lower portion of the engine block."
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