[aumoore]

IMHO the cleveland is one of Fords best all around performance motors. I have owned three clevelands(1972 HO, and 1971 Boss 351 and a 1971 2v cleveland) all the motors were in either a 1970 Mustang or a 1971 Mach 1. To this day I still do not know why the cleveland gets a bad rap on torque? The mustangs I had were no lightweights but the Cleveland would move them effortlessly. I guess in a heavy torino or a LTD with crappy gearing there might be some problem but after 3000rpm I doubt a windsor will keep up unless they have AFR's or Trick Flows(shich are kind of a cleveland copy). In a light weight cobra a cleveland should be about perfect. Not too much torque down low so the car will launch and almost unlimited top end(limited to what the valves will take)

I agree that Clevelands love high compression. The low compression 266 HP 1972 motor was no match for the 11.3:1 Boss 351 motor which was onlyrated at 330 HP. I have read that a stock Boss 351 put out over 400HP?