534 vital statistics?
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Yup, heavy truck and Industrial application engine.
For size comparison, a 429/460 is:
713(429/460 specs from Ford power prducts, all others are rough) pounds and is 34"L, 27"W and 29"H
a 302 is: 460lbs 29"L, 24"W, and 27.5"H
A 351W is: 525lbs, 29"L, 25"W and 29"H
FE's are: 625lbs, 34" long, 32" wide, and 30" high
For size comparison, a 429/460 is:
713(429/460 specs from Ford power prducts, all others are rough) pounds and is 34"L, 27"W and 29"H
a 302 is: 460lbs 29"L, 24"W, and 27.5"H
A 351W is: 525lbs, 29"L, 25"W and 29"H
FE's are: 625lbs, 34" long, 32" wide, and 30" high
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theres a 534 i believe in an old charter bus sitting in the junkyard, it has a holley 4 barrell on it and is HUGE i thought about putting it in my 75 f150 but i decided i could hotrod the 390 a bit more.
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Those heads are cool! I'd need a more accurate meaurement, but those valves look about the same diameter as an FE valve, which is 2.02" intake and 1.55" exhaust. It does use the same kind of rocker setup as an FE, being mounted on a shaft, but the shafts are kind of offset. I wonder if the 1.76:1 ratio FE rockers would swap in?
The heads are what I expected, plank design. I didn't expect the funky single intake port though. I wonder how much that thing could be opened up?
Might make it like a huge single plane. 
The exhaust ports looked a little small IMO. In a truck, that's what you would want though. Still, a little porting never hurts.
Very cool. Looks like an interesting project.
The heads are what I expected, plank design. I didn't expect the funky single intake port though. I wonder how much that thing could be opened up?
Might make it like a huge single plane. The exhaust ports looked a little small IMO. In a truck, that's what you would want though. Still, a little porting never hurts.
Very cool. Looks like an interesting project.
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I have a 534 Ford Seamaster marine engine that I've run in a boat for many years.
Q1: Does anyone know how far down in the hole the piston is? And how much room for higher compression pistons? I would like raise the compression to maybe 8.75 or 9.0:1 so we can take advantage of the gasolines today. When these were built they were designed to run on 76 octane gas. Todays high octane fuels go out unburned and may cause high exhaust gas temperatures.
Q2: Can anyone tell me what the camshaft specs are for the 534??
These were reputed to have been one of the highest quality and longest lasting marine enignes built in the last 50 years. I know of a Turbocharged 534 that had over 17,000 hours on it without overhaul.
If anyone is looking there are 2 different 534 truck enignes on EBay right now. On is running with low miles for $500.00
Thanks, Regards
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Q1: Does anyone know how far down in the hole the piston is? And how much room for higher compression pistons? I would like raise the compression to maybe 8.75 or 9.0:1 so we can take advantage of the gasolines today. When these were built they were designed to run on 76 octane gas. Todays high octane fuels go out unburned and may cause high exhaust gas temperatures.
Q2: Can anyone tell me what the camshaft specs are for the 534??
These were reputed to have been one of the highest quality and longest lasting marine enignes built in the last 50 years. I know of a Turbocharged 534 that had over 17,000 hours on it without overhaul.
If anyone is looking there are 2 different 534 truck enignes on EBay right now. On is running with low miles for $500.00
Thanks, Regards
534Seamaster
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534 Exhaust Valves
As far a the Exhausts are concerned, I've read that the 534 had sodium filled exhaust valves. This means that the valve head is hollow and has sodium salts inside to pull heat away in an attempt to keep the valve at a reasonable level. Very expensive valves.
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Originally Posted by LxMan1
Those intake valves looked to be under 2" to me. Looked to be about 1.88
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Ok, Here's my experience with the 534: Stick with your FE's boys, those 534's loved to chunk iron out of the block when you least expected it. As in they threw rods regularly. We had two of them back in the late 70's in early 60's SD trucks, both had throwed rods, we cut em up for scrap.
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Originally Posted by rusty70f100
I'm kinda curious about these things. Specifically, what are the bore&stroke, compression ratio, head design (plank or wedge), valve sizes, port sizes, basically anything anyone on here can come up with. I figure, the more we know, the more we can modify.
Wouldn't it be great to wake up one of these beasts? I can imagine it now:
Mr. Chevy: Hehe, I've got a 454 BBC in mine.
Mr. 534: Naa, my motor is bigger than yours.
Mr. Chevy: -gasp- What the...!!!
hehe
Wouldn't it be great to wake up one of these beasts? I can imagine it now:
Mr. Chevy: Hehe, I've got a 454 BBC in mine.
Mr. 534: Naa, my motor is bigger than yours.
Mr. Chevy: -gasp- What the...!!!
hehe
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Originally Posted by wcmo sae
Any idea on what kind of power these produced stock??I might be in the market for a very high-power motor in the future, and stumbled across these. Also, how hard are these engines to find?