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Old 08-16-2009, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by MrBuffet View Post
7) I have also talked to some people who have urged me not to go the FE route and get a 351 sportsman or 351 BOSS block instead, and then if need be bore / stroke it to 427. Understanding that it would break the era correctness, and maybe also have a negative effect on the ability to get it registered as a e.g. 1966.?
Before spending a lot of time on trying to find a 1965-67 block, I'd get the straight facts from your local/state DMV. Second and third hand info can be costly when trying to register one of these and you could wind up wasting a bunch of money when your state would have just relied on the data on the MSO (for example) to register it as a '60s-era car.

When you say you are building a Factory Five with a luxury-shaped interior and then adding AC, you will have long-since broken any notion of era-correctness (in my humble opinion), so why waste time/money/energy/weight on a big old clunky hunk of cast iron FE?
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