you do need to bore a 352 .050 over to accept a 390 piston.

 

ford engine! says george reid and hes says not ford edsel but mel is mercury, edsel, lincoln so ford edsel makes sense to me.

 

Correct.

-Scouder

 

Originally Posted by fordman428
you do need to bore a 352 .050 over to accept a 390 piston.

Hmm. This board is confussing for a newbie....

"there is no difference between a 360 and a 390 block for that matter, its all internal differences, crank, rods & pistons so i'd assume.If you can find another 360 block, even if you can't find a 390... just go pick up a crank, toss in some pistons.."

"Note that the 360 has the 352 stroke, but has the 390 bore"

"if you have a 360 and want a 390 then buy the 390 crank, rods, and pistons"

 

sounds about right!

 

352 Block =4.00 bore otherwise same as 360/390 block
360/390 Block = 4.05 bore Both 360 and 390 use same block
428 = 4.13 bore otherwise same as 352 and 360/390 block

352 and 360 same crank (3.5) and rods
360 and 390 same pistons but 390 has different crank (3.78) and shorter rods
428 same rods as 390 but different crank (3.98) and different pistons

So you can see that to make a 352 to a 360 just bore it .050 and add 360 pistons.

To make a 360 to a 390, add 390 crank/rods keep same pistons

There are many potential combos.

-Scouder

 

Ford's FE= Ford's Favorite Executioner

 

Believe what you want - the engine's designer has been quoted as saying FE means "Ford/Edsel" and the link is on this site.

Believe what you want, but please don't post misinformation.

 

who knows in all proabilty it proably is ford edsel but i dont think anyone will ever know for sure.

 

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...hreadid=208332


"Obviously many of you have ever read John Smith's book, "Super 60's Fords." He interviewed one of the FE engine designers (the Project engineer) who said that FE stands for Ford/Edsel and nothing else. Here is John's statement from the Ford Galaxie list:

"Here we go again. When I wrote the original "Super '60s Fords", way back in the mid-80s, I spoke with Mr. Donald Sullivan, the Project Engineer for the development of the original FE engine, the 1958 332 and 352. He told me, directly from his own mouth, that "FE" stood for "Ford/Edsel", indicating the application for which the engines were originally intended. The FE engine ranged from the 1958 332, all the way up to the 1976 360 truck engine, and ranged in displacement from the 332 up to the 428. Some magazines referred to them as larger "Y-blocks" because of the deep block skirts, but there was absolutely no similarity between the FE and the old Y-block, except the appearance of the lower portion of the engine block."

It doesn't help that Ford Muscle perpetuates the same misinformation (Ford Engine) via their magazine and website.

Why would FE mean "Ford Engine" or "Fairlane Engine" when the other like named series were named after the vehicles they were meant for? MEL (Merc/Edsel/Lincoln) and FT (Ford Truck.) And yes, there were FEs in Edsels.

 

Thanks for setting everybody straight (again) scroob!!

BTW that George Reid book is full of errors, nice pictures but he doesn't know FE's, don't believe everything you reid.

Ford Engine makes no sense, aren't they all Ford engines?

The Fairlane Engine term was used by Ford marketing but it was the whole word, not the initials. They used it to describe the new 221 small block in the '62 Fairlane. When they started using the "Fairlane Engine" in the rest of the Fords and Mercurys, the name changed to "Challenger".

 

If you all know about 360's and 390's, can you help me in my "making a 360 into a 390" thread???

 

yeah ford edsel does make sense. thats to bad cause that freaking edesel was an ugly flop.

 

Yeah, I knew it was Ford/Edsel.
But you got to kind of like the ring of Favorite Executioner

 

that is good inf cause i have always wondered what fe meant now i know it is ford edsel