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Picked up a 429 to put in my '76 highboy. Was looking at changing the water pump, and when i looked it up online, one was $ 500+, and the other was $900+ .....am i missing something.
A quick ebay search shows that a restored numbers matching 1969 Mustang Boss 429 is going for $260,000 or more (at least that's what they're asking). With that sort of car, numbers matching parts are critical. these are the parts to make one of those cars numbers matching.
Back before cars were made of plastic and aluminium and needed turbos and computers to be sort of almost fast, there were actually truly fast cars during what is called the "muscle car era"
Unlike now, where you only get one version of an engine as an option in your car, in 1969-70, you could order any of 5 different levels of performance 429, with the BOSS 429 being the top dog, which was little more than a full-race hemi detuned for the street. The boss 429 had extremely limited production numbers, and many of them were wrecked or blown up making them more rare today.
What you were looking at was original, date coded water pumps that originally came on these cars, which is why they were so expensive.
I am positive you don't have an original boss 429 or 429SCJ. You most likely have a basic 429, which takes a standard 429 or 460 water pump.
That should explain a 900 dollar water pump for you. Here's a few pics of original boss 429 cars for you.
Show a picture of your engine there Boss. While we have no way of knowing your financial capabilities, and it would be super cool to see a Boss 429 F series, you likely bought a 429 which you can get a water pump from over the counter.
If you have a B-9, you will indeed have the baddest streetable truck in the county.
Does your 429 look like this? Do the heads look like these? If so, then it's actually a boat anchor 351M and you should save yourself the trouble and sell it to me immediately. Go buy yourself a ( cough cough lol) much more efficient, modern coyote Cummins hemi and I'll take that horrible old tech off your hands. I'm doing you a favor buddy.
I see , thanks for the info...i need a different style for my pulley set up ...but i probably shouldn't turn this one back in as a core then ? I really don't have room to store one more " might use someday " part. :-)
Your existing pump can be easily rebuilt with new bearings and seals and be good to go for another 150,000 miles, cost should be very competitive, a fraction of the cost for a new one. Yeah - ask those $560 guys how much for a core, and see what they say.
A few years ago I saw a very cool set of Weber carburetors on the work bench of a local shop that were obviously for a 12-cylinder engine. As it turns out, I was looking at $220,000 worth of used carburetors! And they were going to be worth a lot more after they were "restored" (as opposed to the typical "rebuilt" condition.
They were one of the few remaining correct sets of carbs for an early sixties factory race Ferrari that was valued (at the time) at about $14million bucks. So yeah, prices go with the territory.
Luckily we exist in a slightly different territory with regard to most of our stuff.
Back before cars were made of plastic and aluminium and needed turbos and computers to be sort of almost fast, there were actually truly fast cars during what is called the "muscle car era"
Unlike now, where you only get one version of an engine as an option in your car, in 1969-70, you could order any of 5 different levels of performance 429, with the BOSS 429 being the top dog, which was little more than a full-race hemi detuned for the street. The boss 429 had extremely limited production numbers, and many of them were wrecked or blown up making them more rare today.
I love the classic muscle cars but if I want to go as fast as possible I can buy a new mustang that will beat the classics in a straight line and on the autocross with a warranty.
If I really want to go TRULY fast I can choose the 2020 GT500 (one of the many different performance packages) that has a different motor than the GT and can go from 0-60 in 3.5 seconds.
Fast cars are far from dead. Hell, the electric Teslas are strait line rockets. Classics are cool but innovation and new technology is cool as well.
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