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Originally Posted by ZOERA-SC7XX
The 460 based engine is .... also almost 50% heavier.
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I've always heard the opposite.
I have no factual basis for it, I simply always believed the FE was heavier.
Maybe it was relative to horsepower, in the seventies Ford made a marked difference in their 1/2 ton trucks when the 460 went in.
1976 I think?
The older 390/400M motors in all our company trucks were turds by comparison.
I was around a few older LTD's and such that had the old 390 or 428, but they were sluggish compared to the Lincolns and Mercurys we had with the 460.
Of course, nostalgia warps reality but I always had a better opinion of the 460.
Later, I knew several guys who built 460s for drag racing.
The 390/428 along with the 351 Cleveland motors all but disappeared from the drag racing world by the early nineties, unless they were in a numbers-correct car of some sort.
If a 460 would fit, that's what went in it.
Hmmm....
Okay, so maybe all the FE guys are onto something!
Dear God, don't let me succumb to Side-Oiler 427 fever!
Thanks!
This is why I'm here.
