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best 460
hello everyone!!! i'm pretty new to this site and love the info i have gotten from here. i was talking to my brother and he had a good question and i had no idea the answer so i thought i would ask it here!!! what was the baddest 460 ever made ford. hp and torq specs??? thank you for your guys help!!!!
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Ford never really made a performance version of the 460, the early models look a lot better for 2 reasons one they did have a little higher compression and they had a straight up timing chain which was changed later for emissions purposes, and second and most important they changed the way that the HP was measured, truth is none are really any better. The best 460 is the one you built to suit your purposes.
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from what i know the early models had a shorted deck hight and smaller cc heads with non polution heads but monster is right i have built up older blocks and newer and they are all the same you can deck the newer blocks to gain some comp and even block and shave d3 heads but any how i was told the badest is a 429 scj
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Originally Posted by backwoodspuller
but any how i was told the badest is a 429 scj
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i consider 429-460 the same but anyhow how about thunder jet? i have head some about it but not shure if it is 460 or 429 or if it is even a performance engin but the boss 9 yea i would agree but was is a factory motor or ?
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Too bad the Boss 9 only has a few parts that interchange with a normal mass produced engine. I have seen Boss heads swapped over to a normal 385 block but there were a lot of changes that needed to be made with the top end.
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well in the mid 70's ford produced interceptor engines and they had a little better hp and tq the ports in the heads were larger and the bore was a little more they produced about 230 hp so yeah i dont have any numbers to give you at the moment but if i can find my book i will drop them onto this post.
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I totally agree with catmandu79!
Scroll down on the link below down to "460" for the basic info you're requesting.
68-70 had the highest outputs with least smog BS BTW. I think it was 70 when they drilled the air injection holes into some of the heads for smog rales, but they were good too. Just gotta plug them holes up.
http://www.fordclassics.com/enginespecs.html
Not sure about that police intercepter though....
Scroll down on the link below down to "460" for the basic info you're requesting.
68-70 had the highest outputs with least smog BS BTW. I think it was 70 when they drilled the air injection holes into some of the heads for smog rales, but they were good too. Just gotta plug them holes up.
http://www.fordclassics.com/enginespecs.html
Not sure about that police intercepter though....
Last edited by olfordsnstone; Sep 25, 2006 at 08:00 PM.