Performance 400 parts?
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Performance 400 parts?
With the 400 being one the rarer engines found these days im having a hard time finding performance parts for it. I have looked through summit and Jegs and cant find a whole lot. Any advice?
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Check more on this forum. You can get Edelborck manifolds, caburetors, headers, pistons, cams, oil pumps, heads, on and on and on 
. Just use the search function here and you'll have enough for a long while. You could also look at these.http://www.projectbronco.com/Technic...e_build_up.htm
http://www.off-road.com/ford/flashback/400_power.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~bubbaf250/
That should keep you busy for a while!
. Just use the search function here and you'll have enough for a long while. You could also look at these.http://www.projectbronco.com/Technic...e_build_up.htmhttp://www.off-road.com/ford/flashback/400_power.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~bubbaf250/
That should keep you busy for a while!
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The only thing I am not sure about is the availability of Hi-Comp pistons. Even the places that cary the brands listed, cannot cross the numbers I have found. Looks like you'll have to get those rods bushed. I'm going to talk to my machinist about some 69-71 Windsor pistons. If Im going to bush my rods, might as well go for 0 deck clearance, right?
PS-I heard of some alumnum heads for the Cleaveland, anyone got any leads, cancellation conformations?
Thanx
PS-I heard of some alumnum heads for the Cleaveland, anyone got any leads, cancellation conformations?
Thanx
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You can get all the compression you need for any street or mild build machine with the pistons listed in posts here. You can go with very high compression pistons but with anything else like them it will require machine work.
The 351M and 400 are not rare, it just seems that the stock heads were more than adequate for most applications so not much of an aftermarket was needed. Most of the applications those engines were in were not considered "performance" applications either. It takes very little to make a 400 run right other than a cam and intake, so again not much aftermarket support was needed.
The 351M and 400 are not rare, it just seems that the stock heads were more than adequate for most applications so not much of an aftermarket was needed. Most of the applications those engines were in were not considered "performance" applications either. It takes very little to make a 400 run right other than a cam and intake, so again not much aftermarket support was needed.
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have been looking around, found 3 articles about EFI for the 400. My machinest said he could try a retrofit to my stock man, but recommended I find a "spare" to work on first, just wandering if anyone kept their old intake when they went to 4bbl? If maybe they would donate it in the name of progress?
All of the articles involve buying an aftermarket open intake to hack up, or a new aftermarket 351W EFI intake-then extensive modifications needed
Would the 2bbl intake not work, it has long runners, like the factory EFI intakes, kind-of. The conversion wouldn't be all that bad, find a late model with 7.5l 5spd, rob of induction and ignition, re-route some wires, ......it gets kinda complicated from there, but if you can upgrade a 460 w/ it, it will plug right in on your 400
Oh well, just a thought
All of the articles involve buying an aftermarket open intake to hack up, or a new aftermarket 351W EFI intake-then extensive modifications needed
Would the 2bbl intake not work, it has long runners, like the factory EFI intakes, kind-of. The conversion wouldn't be all that bad, find a late model with 7.5l 5spd, rob of induction and ignition, re-route some wires, ......it gets kinda complicated from there, but if you can upgrade a 460 w/ it, it will plug right in on your 400
Oh well, just a thought
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Pistons
Check out " www.tmeyerinc.com ". Tim has high compression pistons for sale. He did my machine work and sold me pistons. I have appro. 9.25 compression. Hope this helps.
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Just about every major aftermarket manufacturer makes stuff for the C/M motors. You can browse their online catalogs and enter the part # in Summit and Jegs' manufacturer search, and it'll come up even if not in their online catalog. Not a great aftermarket piston selection, but that's well covered here with custom ones. Having the head ported is always an option. The exhaust port in particular needs a little help from your friendly, neighborhood die grinder with a carbide burr, but the intake side doesn't need too much at all for a decent ground-pounder. The long crank helps make a buttload of torque off-idle to midrange, which is what you want to work with here, and more or less let the horsepower curve fall where it will. These things won't rev high without $ignificant bottom-end mod$; they make better stump-pullers (Did I say "stump"? I meant "house"!) and rolling burnout machines.
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