I thought this might happen! f100racing is pulling way the heck out in front of everyone else in round four...
I seriously think he's going to be the first Aussie to bag a round in an FTE Online Contest.
If that Cleveland is a 4V top end, I hope he's got some serious rod bolts...
The Cleveland originally WAS a truck engine, and then the Mustang crowd got interested in it. Next came the 400M....
Same block, more cubes, many parts interchangeable. Or did the 400 have a taller deck height? I don't remember.
I built a stock Cleveland factory 4bbl once - at a price of $1600 USD. The machine shop guys told me it was a 351M. All I added to it was a cam from Schnieder Cams in San Diego. Blown UP before I rebuilt it, and sucking coolant through a total of nine cracks in the two heads it made a 1973 Grand Torino do some of the most spectacular burnouts I've ever seen - that damned thing was laying rubber going into fourth gear (a previous owner had ditched an automatic tranny and dropped in a four speed). I have no idea to this day what the rear end ratio was.
The car was set up with side pipes, and made a wonderful thundering sound going down the Pacific coast highway
But I never got the front brake hydraulics to work right before I sold it.
Much too late I found out about a metering block bypass that had to be known about to bleed it right.
I was running forty series tires on the front - GOD DAMN it was a sweet car.....
The guy I sold it to got arrested for dope running and it wound up in a scrapyard. STUPID GIT!
I think the heads off of it were bought by a friend of mine on base at Miramar though - he had a Ranchero with a 351C and I told him about the heads and the car. The ports in those heads were enormous!!! Way overkill for the displacement.
Adrian....whats the cost of those Pursuits down under? They sure are slick !
Like any vehicle in Australia... too expensive.
That said, they retail for similar or a little more than the Pontiac G8 GT does there.
I think thats being sold for around 27k or so here, so that gives you an indication of what they could go for if they were sold here.
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Only problem I can see is the right hand drive - but there are a lot of direct imports in the states that are set up that way.
Now - when we say "Costs about the same as" is that after taking US -vs- AUS Dollar conversion into account?
The next question is shipping and customs I suppose.
Even if one of them were a problem to register and insure in the states - it would be one helluvva show truck on the American show circuit. Matter of fact it would be a STANDOUT
Only problem I can see is the right hand drive - but there are a lot of direct imports in the states that are set up that way.
Now - when we say "Costs about the same as" is that after taking US -vs- AUS Dollar conversion into account?
The next question is shipping and customs I suppose.
Even if one of them were a problem to register and insure in the states - it would be one helluvva show truck on the American show circuit. Matter of fact it would be a STANDOUT
I couldn't even envisage the costs to bring one over.
I would rather save the heartburn.
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