428fe, or 427fe, which one do you prefer? Please no other engines, thanks.

[ZOERA-SC7XX]

428 all the way for street driving

[Dwight]

Ford build the 428 for street cars and trucks.
4.13" bore and 3.98" stroke. Lots of low end torque but out of steam about 5500 rpms.

The 427 was a high rpm race motor. 4.23" bore and 3.78" stroke. Made it's power in the high rpm range. By 1965 Ford had a 427 that could turn 7500 rpms for 24 hours. That won races for them.

Different motors but pretty much the same block.

Dwight

[Ron61]

I have had a 427 Tunnel Port with two huge Holleys, a 427 with dual fours and my 69 Cobra came with the 428 SCJ Cobra engine in it and it is as fast up to 100 MPH as any of the other two were. I liked the 427 in the Galaxie, didn't like the 427 Tunnel Port and traded it for A 390 high performance engine, but all around I like the 428 Cobra engine the best. It dynoed out at just 440 horse but will run with most engines around here.

Ron

[DanEC]

Engine blocks are benign - don't really have a personality. It's all about how they are prepared, what's stuffed inside them and how they are operated. A well prepared 428 and a well prepared 427 with comparable heads, intakes, exhaust and internals will pretty much operate indistinguishable from each other. Due to the stroke and bore relationships there may be minute differences but you almost would need an engine dyno to see them.

Only when you start stuffing in 13:1 pistons, 250+ degree - .700 lift cams, single plane intakes and start twisting them north of 6500 rpm and higher is the difference going to show up - probably with the 428 block grenading at some point (but 427 blocks apparently are not immune from that either considering all of them with holed skirts).

The answer is in how you plan to build the engine and how you intend to use it. That and at least another $3,000.

My 3 cents (inflation)

[1795]

I have driven cobras with 427's and 428's in them. ON the street you really will not know the difference. Currently I have a 428 and there is all sorts of torque. Absolutely no stall if you touch the gas at any speed in any gear. If you already have the 428, go with it and save yourself some money. The car will find other ways to gobble up what spare change you have in your pocket.