Hello, bad news, my 360 started spewing an amazing amount smoke the other day and making a knocking sound & chattering sound. Mechanic says that top end was not getting oil. Weighing the rebuild versus replacement options so I wanted to ask if anyone knows a good source for a replacement motor. I am in Nor Cal. Thanks in advance.

 

Craigslist can get you a running used engine. As for brand new, I don't know of anywhere that sells crate FE engines. And if they are out there, it's probably 390s and 428s.

If you want to convert to a small-block, that opens up your choices quite a bit.

 

craigslist all the way. There are also website where you can put in the part your looking for, they search dismantling yards and email you with a bunch of places that have what you need. For more common engines I'll normally head down to the junk yard when theyre having a half off day, and try to find something decent. Not sure if you'll even find a single 360 in the yards though

 

Here, let me spend your money for you......

Rebuilt Engines and Rebuilt Motors from CME

511 SR FE Crate Engine

 

OOOOOH! AAAAAAHH! AWESOME!

 

"Truckgasm".

 

If you can't do a top end R & R The heads then have your Mechanic do it.
As the heads will need harden exh. seats for unleaded gas.
Or do a complete rebuild.

Orich

 

i couldn't afford the sparkplug wires on that engine..... did you want to keep the FE or just make it move under its own power again?

 

Oh MY YES!!!

Only 26 thousand dollars

 

A nice piece of change to drive 25/35mph a long city streets 99.99% of the time.
Orich

 

For what that engine (alone) costs, I could buy 10.4 F100s for what I paid for my '69 Ranger.

I can understand a professional race team having an engine like that but, it really doesn't make sense to build an engine with 500, 600 or greater horse power, especially if the vehicles primary (or only) use will be on the street/highway.

There aren't any Autobahns in the U.S. and the only place I know of you can legally drive 85 MPH, in the U.S., is on a 40 mile stretch of toll road between Austin and San Antonio, TX. (at least it was being proposed. Don't know if they've actually done it).

I understand the desire to build a powerful, high horse power engine. At one time, I wanted to build a turboed, fuel injected stroker engine for my '68 Mustang. But, some time has passed since that initial thought and the sensibilities kicked in to realize, other than a drag strip, there's nowhere I could (legally) use anywhere close to the potential output of an engine like that.

If I did utilize the full output potential of an engine like that on the street/highway, it would be under illegal circumstances and it wouldn't last for more than bursts of about a 15 to 30 seconds at a time. The rest of the time, all the money, time, effort and the speed parts themselves would just be a complete waste.

It didn't make good sense to me to spend several thousands of dollars on expensive speed parts, that for 99% (or more) of the time, would not even be operating in an RPM range that they were designed for.

The plan now is to take the H.O. 5.0L fuel injected engine, replace the stock E7TA heads with a pair of much better factory GT40P iron heads, install a slightly more aggressive than stock camshaft, install factory 24 lb/hr injectors, a 70mm throttle body, 73mm Mass Air meter, headers, dual exhaust and put it in the truck. This should be good for around 300+ horse power, get decent fuel mileage, have a good amount of acceleration and will propel the truck faster than the legal speed limit will allow. I have the engine and most of these parts and it won't be overly expensive to build and I won't be throwing tons of money on expensive speed parts that would largely never see their performance potential on a high horse power engine that would pretty much be completely useless.

I would rather spend that kind of money on installing A/C, redoing the interior, nice wheels/tires, etc. or, put it towards a paint job.

....as it currently stands, the worn out 240 in it now will propel my truck faster than the legal speed limit around here will allow.

 

It's not how fast you can go but how short of a time it takes to get to that speed. 500 HP gets you there fast.....

I've been eyeballing this Snake instead of a F355. ...506 cubic inches and 510 HP, Oh, it has air conditioning too.

 

Now HIO, you know what you really want is one of these...




Myself, I'd settle for a new mustang GT...

 

I want it, I want it, I want it... But it's just a wee bit outta my price range. After my mid-life crisis car , it'll be a Factory Five Mark IV roadster. However, I'm gonna build the engine first.. an FE of course.

Anyone ever hear of the Silver State Classic? It's a bucket list item.

 

my old rust bucket gets me to and from my destinations ... got a total of around 3500 in the complete truck...and would not cry real long if some fool in a hopped up mustang totals it up against my slow moving rusty bumper... but we are all entitled to our own opinion of "cool" in our choice of transportation.... and we for sure all have different bank account totals.. ha ha ha ha