Kinda from a different perspective---but------I've had pretty much all varieties of these engines over the years from a 332fe in 1958 ford upto the most current Nascar numbers as the years evolved with the FEs and then several versions of the 429-460s since 1970------
If, you are going to seriously race your vehicle----go for the ligthest,highest revving,best lubricated thing you can get into the vehicle(mainly for two reasons----rpm spread thru the gears for whatever track you are running on((combo of trans and rear)) and less weight for brake performance---Ford racers went with destroked 427s down to 390-396 cubes to get braking performance----
If you are going to street drive your vehicle----anything over 350 cubes will give you impressive performance if you keep it sensable------
Now, if you want a 850 or lower idle, usable lower AND upper tranny gear (5-6 speeds), go for aluminum(lighter) 460------you can still get good reasonable cores, hydraulic lifters(roller or flat) decent manifolds, water and
oil flows are good----I removed 360fe from my 1970 F250 to put in 428 cranked 427 and while apart ran across recently totaled 69 lincoln with 460, C6 with ps and ac that I installed instead of the fe---had to do mounts, etc, but the truck was a monster on the top fuel circuit tow trucks---its still out there from what I hear being know as the Devil Truck----was in the movie Funny Car Summer --
We put the Strked 427 in my pardners truck, and it ran very good, but did not perform as good on the road as the 460 however it did use more gas ( $0.299 gal premium) and we always had to carry an extra 5 gal can or two for him--------
There were many Ford type people that saw and or rode in the truck and eventually Ford put the 460 into the trucks for 1973-----------
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