http://www.powertechengines.com/100.html
Heres some info most never see. More to come.

 

http://www.fordpowerproducts.com/For...ucts/index.htm
more stuff

 

Seen it, may have even posted it here among other places.............now please show us the powerboat link.

 

I wouldn't mind if one of those trucks dropped one of those engines by my house, Promise you I'd make great use of it in my Bronco, after I rebuild it for huge power of coarse.

 

http://www.rv.net/forums/index.cfm/f...g/15484143.cfm

http://www.marinepartsexpress.com/cobraconversion.htm

More stuff. Apparently OMC used a lot of Fords. Mercruiser lists some. Chevys are definatley? more used in boats. ??

 

Put this in your boat and go.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-...QQcmdZViewItem

 

Don't think that link will work, Post the number and everyone can go to ebay to search for it with the product number.

 

4579939751

Try that. Or go to ebay motors and look at boats. Its on the first page.

 

OMC did use big and small block Fords. I've seen Bayliners from the 80's with SBF/OMC, and I have a friend who has an 80"s 22 or 24 foot Donzi with 460 and OMC Cobra. He would beat up on my Chris Craft Stinger with stock pair of 260 hp SBC's. Tables are turned now, since I went to 383 strokers. That single screw Donzi did pretty darn good with that low compression "truck" engine though, beating a longer but not much heavier twin screw boat. And those OMC Cobra outdrives take more power to spin then my smaller (but built)Mercruiser Alpha drives. But so do the Baja etc. with a single 454 or 502. Must be that way because the small blocks put out more total horsepower together, but the single big block puts less weight on the very back of the boat? I don't know for sure why.
Was the 460 really put in Fords for 30 years? I thought it was closer to 25 years, but I could be wrong. And then the thing about no factory 460 with 4 bolt mains. I bought a 66 F100 when I was in the Army, and I was told by the seller that the engine was a 460, with a C-6 trans ( both transplanted of course). I had the engine built by a speed shop (lived on base with no garage) after just merely frying the tires wasn't enough. When I picked it up when ready, one of the shop owners told me he was surprised when they found it to be a 4 bolt main BBF 460.
I knew nothing about engines code numbers back then. If there were no 4 bolt main 460's, were there any 429's that were? Can a 429 be made into a 460? The valve covers were chrome and said Thunderjet, but they may have just been on there 'cause they looked good.
I would swap my Chev strokers for a pair of L engines any day if it were a bolt in. Probably real close in horsepower, but much more cool factor to any Ford guy.

 

The 460 came out in the Lincolns in '68. I believe it went out with the '97 F250s and 350s. I recently drove a '97 F250 4x4 with 5spd. Wanted it real bad but to high for me$$$ I got My Trucks heads off of a '68 Lincoln MarkIII. Smaller chambers, big valves, screw in studs. That engine made 375HP and 510 or so TQ. Thats why I hunted the heads down. It also had like 11.5CR. I didnt go but 10.6 with mine. I dont see how they got that power with those carbs, 480s I think. Crank and pistons to make a 429. The only big blocks with four bolts I can remember were the cross bolted 427s. Three bolts visible on each side of the block. They only were on the middle journels to combat cap walking at sustained 7k(nascar). Special four bolt caps can be installed on high dollar engines. I've seen em in mags. Don't remember what the Boss 429 had. Im too tired to get my books out.

 

Oh yeah, that thunderjet was a 429 that came in t-birds. Im pretty sure only the cobrajet 429 and the nascar 429 had 4 bolt mains. Somebody put a 460 crank in there. That thing was heavy duty. heres a neat link.

http://www.fordclassics.com/enginespecs.html

 

Good info link,GT. By the looks of it, that engine was possibly a 429 Cobra Jet with a 460 crank, for some dumb reason. Either that, or the shop that freshened the motor never checked the stroke? Anyhow, it did have a cast iron intake, with an adapter and a Holley carb. I had always wondered why a factory Ford intake needed an adapter to fit a Holley carb. I never knew Ford ever used a Rochester..??

 

Super Cobra-jet 429 and Boss 429's were the one's with 4 bolt mains

 

And the later Cobra Jets...........

 

Cool link.