FE, 428, 428.... virgin US engine needs help

[farmallmta]

Clarifying or confusing further, we might also add that nomenclature changes over time. The FE engine was typically referred to as Ford's "Big Block" during the 1960's to distinguish it from the "Small Block" which started life as 221 cid. Early nomenclature of the 385 series engines (429, 460) was commonly "Super Block" since it's displacement exceeded that of the mere "Big Block," which we now refer to as the FE.

The fun part is that some factory small block displacements eventually exceeded some factory big block displacements, the small block can be made to equal or exceed big block and super block displacements, and at least one super block displacement (370, in trucks) was smaller than both.

But please, don't bring up the MEL series which had duplicate ci displacements, the heavy truck engines of up to 534cid which put out less power than small blocks quickly became capable of, or the 3 completely different 351cid engines, with the 351C-- the far and away best of the bunch-- getting dumped from manufacture by Ford the quickest. How about the 427, 428, and 429 being available nearly simultaneously in the late '60's? All this and more from the Better Idea Folks at Ford.

Don't care who ya' are, that there just don't make no sense. Trying to make sense or logic out of Ford's V8 engines is enough to get a person babbling like John Kerry explaining how he can simultaneously hold two mutually exclusive and opposite postions on a single black and white issue.