Has anyone heard of the FE cammer???
saw it while looking through a hot rod mag.
the mag says.. "The infamous Ford FE cammer. Although it really shared little with the other FE engines, it got really close to NASCAR racing before the rules changed to stop it (Chrysler campaigning forced the cams inside the block). Never in an OEM car, this engine was strictly over-the-counter fare."

 

DF, I know a guy who shoe-horned a cammer motor in a `74 capri, Man What A Site.! He showed me the paper work from when he bought it from Ford and it said" Apprximate HP 675! That beast has a sound like no other motor I`ve ever heard! I have a photo in an old super ford mag that shows a `66? galaxie with one in it (Holman/Moody I think)
even in that big car it was tight.
John

 

I've got a pic here in my Street Rodder May,'01... looks like it weighs a ton. Says only a couple hundred were built, and sold for $3,200 through Holman/Moody, which was more than a new galaxie at the time. Wish I had one

 

I've seen one, in all my years, It was on
the dyno at Rockette's uncles shop, 675HP
was a *very* conservative estimate...cause
that one pegged the dyno (1000HP). And
was bound for a street rod...

Steve & the Rockette
'63 F100
'68 F100
'72 Capri 2L
'73 Capri 2.6L V6
'73 MG B GT 2.6L V6(Ford)
'98 Contour SVT 2.5L V6 (Mods)
'01 ZX2 (No Mods yet)

 

There'e a guy here with one in his Fairlane. Also the guy that owns the 4x4 shop I take my truck to has 2. And he wont share.

 

Actually, the Cammer shared a lot with other FE's. The Cammer used your typical 427 Side oiler block with slight oiling modifications. Each head had Hemi chambers and a Single OverHead Camshaft (SOHC).

The SOHC was initially banned by NASCAR but then was approved with a a pound per cubic inch weight penalty. NASCAR offerd Ford a deal that they could run their Tunnel Port heads without a weight penalty. Ford took that option.

The cammer was offerd for sale in the Ford Power parts cataloug for $2500 for the 616HP 4bbl or 2700 for the 657HP 8V cammer. They sold lots of them, far more that 200 as Mickey Thompson destroyed more than 200 during the 1969 AA/FC domination. The Cammer, in MT's blue 69 MACH 1 won every event it entered with Danny Ongais doing the driving. I met Danny at the Spring Nationals in 1969 at Tulsa Oklahoma, I looked in the trailer and what a sight...at least a dozen blown cammers, all ready to go, they won everything in sight, breaking a engine on almost every run.

Another little bit of trivia, the Cammer helped Ford pull off something no other maker will ever come close to.....the old FE, first appearing in the 50's won the 67 Daytona 500, 67 AA/FD title, and the 24 HRS of LeMAns, oh Ford did win the Indy 500 in 67 too but not with an FE.

The cammer running is a sweet sound, it has all the oomph of a Big Block with the high tech sound of a Kawasaki. They still pop up on Ebay every month or so, selling for well over 10K. By the amount of these things still for sale I would guess Ford made several hundred, maybe even over 1000 of these beasts.

 

The guy who bought fords used original tooling for the cammers said the wear on them meant probably about 1000 were made

 

I would say you are correct with that number.

 

I dug out my old Hi-Po catalog. MSRP was $2350 for either the 4bbl or 8bbl version.
same price for either.