Just a question
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Cranbrook, Ont., Canada
Just a question
WHY, WHY, OH WHY do people put sbc engines or trannys in Ford trucks or any Ford product of any year?
Is it because they don't know any better or because there's more sbc at the junk dealers??? It's SO disheartening to see a really good looking Ford all done up and then you pop the hood and WHAT do you see a DAMM sbc. Am I the only guy that gets upset over this? 
To me it just doesn't make ANY logical sense. I just wish people would keep a Ford engine in a Ford Product.
It would make MY world PERFECT!!! Of course in My world the sky is green.Anybody else feel this way?
Is it because they don't know any better or because there's more sbc at the junk dealers??? It's SO disheartening to see a really good looking Ford all done up and then you pop the hood and WHAT do you see a DAMM sbc. Am I the only guy that gets upset over this? To me it just doesn't make ANY logical sense. I just wish people would keep a Ford engine in a Ford Product. It would make MY world PERFECT!!! Of course in My world the sky is green.Anybody else feel this way?
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I'll admit it...it bugs me too. But then I realize everyone has their reasons. Personally, I'm good with any swap that could have come stock on a Ford at any time. But then I also have friends that unless it's numbers matching and correct to the vehicle, they're world is wrecked. So it's all relative.
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How would you feel about the 472 Cadillac I put in my '78 Chevy truck? What about a fiberglass '32 Ford replica with a SBC in it? That car is a NOTHING, but it looks like a Ford with Chevy parts. How about the guy with an '80 something Ranger pick up with a flat head 8 in it? (I know, all Ford, but it still doesn't belong) It's their truck, it's their business. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
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Ya know hes got a good point if you want to drive a chevy then drive a chevy!!!
I mean why purposly downgrade your vehicle? not to mention how much more you take off the final value if you ever tryed to go resale!!!
I mean why purposly downgrade your vehicle? not to mention how much more you take off the final value if you ever tryed to go resale!!!
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It use to bother me hearing about these types of hackery....but its their time and money to go to all the trouble to do such a swap. Now a 472 Caddy engine in a GM truck would be OK.....its all GM. I met a guy a few years back that stuffed a Caddy 500cid into a Nova. Again...no harm, no foul, it was all GM stuff. Similar train of thought on street rods....its a street rod, so anything goes. The first reason I've always heard for dropping a SBC into another make of vehicle is usually that its so much cheaper to rebuild a SBC versus a SBF. Maybe that was true 20yrs ago, but I dont think it is now. Which takes us back to the thing about its their money and time.
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I don't have a problem with people putting whatever they want in their trucks, vans, and cars. A short bed 79 dentside with a 472 out of a '70 Cadillac (375 hp, 525 ft lb torque) would be pretty kewl.
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Caddy mills into Ford bodies is actually a really old idea. They used to do them back when the Flathead was getting whipped by the "new" OHV GM engines. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, not really worth gettting heated up over as I see it.
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It doesn't bother me at all. Maybe these guys just like the way the ford looks, but like to work on the chevy motors. To each their own. My wife doesn't think hot sauce belongs in tuna fish, but she isn't all up in arms about it.
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Hell no to me Ford to Ford parts GM to Chevy an so on as long as it is from the company. won't ever mix Ford & Chevy parts. I got a Ford & Chevy sitting an people want to know what I am doing I tell them working on the Formaro just to get them going.
