I'm mostly a 300, 302, 351W, 429 and 460 man, but work on other things too, anyway we've always had this 292 in our 1963 grain truck, but I'd never really taken the time to look into it, but was always surprised at the fact that ford would only put a 292 in a truck that big, but it seems to handle it well. So the other day I was driving it empty and just romped the hell outta this thing, well good god, this thing goes better then my worn out 300 in my F-150. Anyway this 292 is factory high compression, with a 650 Holley DP on it, which blew the fuel line off and brought me under the hood to operate. The manifolds on this engine look about one step away from headers and although they run into a Y and single glasspack this engine sounds pretty good. Nobody seems to ever talk or brag about these engines, so I figured you guys would be the ones to tell me what I have here, b/c I can always pick up a 60 some truck at a sale somewhere and make a sleeper out of it if this engine seems all it seems to be.
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Redneck-Cowboy
86 F-150 4x4, 4spd w/ a 300, Headers, 500 cfm 4-barrel, D.U.I or "H.E.I" ignition/dist., mild cam with chevy rockers, steel timing gears, decked the block and head .015, bored .060, true dual straight 2.5" all the way back ( a little to snappy, but frickin LOUD)
Not sure exactly what you're asking here. But most of us do treasure these first design OHV Ford motors for their uniquness, torque and toughness. Plug around the forum here and you will find the 292 the most popular one to keep and rebuild. Performace stuff is available, some cheap, some not.
Grreat to see ya appreciate these motors. They had a fairly long history in trucks (even into the '70s in South America), but faded out of being the premeir car motors fast when the FEs showed in the late 50s
Ohhh you got ram horns, it feels strong because of the torque and how low it comes on and stays on. If going fast only is the game go buy a 351 something, but if reliablity and torque(stock) and a unique charm is more your game go play around with another y block. -4speed
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1960 f-100 292 Custom Cab Ford-o-matic(see my gallery)
Im guessing that your grain truck is a F-500 which would have a fairly tamed down 292, 2bbl and a front crossover pipe into a very restrictive single exhaust as equipped from the factory.
If the VIN says it is a HD 292 or you have a F-600 then you have a forged steel crank and a 4 bbl intake; factory duals were available. The stock 4 bbl was around 450 cfm.
From your description at least the carb was changed, maybe more. Heads from 57-9 were the highest compression and in 60 and later Ford detuned that poor engine with peanut valve heads. They wanted to push the FE as the HP leader and the Y was just an old workhorse.
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I know for a fact that the carb. is different, you can just tell it's Holley double pumper (ex*****ive) as for the heads I couldn't tell ya, I was always told they were high comp. but my uncle could be wrong, we bought it on a farm sale so I don't know the whole history of it, but by the way things look on the engine somebody was diffently doing some tuning on it, different coil, new wires, chrome open element air cleaner, etc. but that's just the little external stuff you see. Seems odd that someone would stick this stuff into a grain truck engine, unless it used to be in a pickup and was put in there. It's a cab over and to tell you the truth I've never seen a F-number on there, it just says custom cab, I might have to take a closer look. I've drove my friends 60 something F-100 w/ a 292 and a 3 speed on the tree and it had no where near the get up that this engine has, so it lead me to believe this engine was special.
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Redneck-Cowboy
86 F-150 4x4, 4spd w/ a 300, Headers, 500 cfm 4-barrel, D.U.I or "H.E.I" ignition/dist., mild cam with chevy rockers, steel timing gears, decked the block and head .015, bored .060, true dual straight 2.5" all the way back ( a little to snappy, but frickin LOUD)
Yeah that would be pretty neat, I'd probably fix it up a little better and put a dove tail type flat bed on there and haul my pulling tractors around instead of torturing my own everyday truck (then agian my "everyday" is different then most) After I got my clutch master cylinder in, I just went out on sunday to go muddin by myself for no reason, since I was busy the night before. Anyway I'll have to do some block number checking.
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Redneck-Cowboy
86 F-150 4x4, 4spd w/ a 300, Headers, 500 cfm 4-barrel, D.U.I or "H.E.I" ignition/dist., mild cam with chevy rockers, steel timing gears, decked the block and head .015, bored .060, true dual straight 2.5" all the way back ( a little to snappy, but frickin LOUD)
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So the other day I was driving it empty and just romped the hell outta this thing, well good god, this thing goes better then my worn out 300 in my F-150. Anyway this 292 is factory high compression, with a 650 Holley DP on it, which blew the fuel line off and brought me under the hood to operate. The manifolds on this engine look about one step away from headers and although they run into a Y and single glasspack this engine sounds pretty good. Nobody seems to ever talk or brag about these engines, so I figured you guys would be the ones to tell me what I have here, b/c I can always pick up a 60 some truck at a sale somewhere and make a sleeper out of it if this engine seems all it seems to be.
