Mostly likely my 360 epic

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Mar 16, 2005 | 11:58 AM

novadragman2005

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Mostly likely my 360 epic

I own what I am pretty sure now to believe is a 360 FE motor (bloody hell!) after thinking (and buying parts for) a 390. Oh well, more work to do. I know that most of my parts are interchangeable so I'll be aight. I am planning to restore my truck so do you think I should stay with the stock 360?

Mar 16, 2005 | 12:01 PM

ha2400

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depends on what your definition of restore is. lol to my knowledege FoMoCo put 390's in some of these trucks from factory
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Mar 16, 2005 | 12:05 PM

novadragman2005

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i would like to have a numbers matching truck, mostly, with some power op's and some interior mods

Mar 16, 2005 | 02:14 PM

jowilker

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I have a T intake manifold from a 390 truck engine. There is no real extended value in a numbers matching truck.

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Mar 16, 2005 | 11:20 PM

Vern69

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Howdy Nova,

I see in your profile that your rig is a 4x4. From what I've been able to uncover, Ford only put the 390 in the 2WD mods at that point. Why?, I give up. I guess you'd have to ask someone that was making the decisions back then. As to the 360, I think it's a fantastic motor. I have a ton of raw guts off-road when I need it and can smoke both rear tires on dry pavement when I'm pi**ed at some clown in traffic. Just my opinion, but unless you are looking to race this rig, then the 360 with stock setup is just fine. If you are looking to race, then dump the 300-series altogether and go with something much larger.

Last edited by Vern69; Mar 16, 2005 at 11:23 PM.