FE Big Blocks

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

Mar 15, 2001 | 06:46 PM

mantta

Thread Starter

Posting Guru

Joined: Feb 2001

Posts: 1,728

Likes: 0

From: Keweenaw Bay, MI

FE Big Blocks

If im not mistaken, diddn't Mercury in 1958 have a 383 ci engine that was classified as an FE block?

Mar 15, 2001 | 09:29 PM

fomocoloco

Mountain Pass

Joined: Dec 2000

Posts: 200

Likes: 0

From: eudora ks

FE Big Blocks

not according to my book. 58 edsel had a 332 & 361 available however. ford had a 332 , 352, & a 361 police power pack. jim.

Mar 15, 2001 | 09:43 PM

mantta

Thread Starter

Posting Guru

Joined: Feb 2001

Posts: 1,728

Likes: 0

From: Keweenaw Bay, MI

FE Big Blocks

The 383 ci engine is listed for Mercury only in an old Motors Manual I have. Don't know if it is really an FE or a "Y" block. The old 1954 239 OHV is also left out.

Mar 15, 2001 | 11:07 PM

dinosaurfan

Cargo Master

Joined: Aug 2000

Posts: 2,931

Likes: 12

From: SW Michigan

FE Big Blocks

Isn't the 383 an MEL engine, like the 430 and 462? I have seen a 389 FT before. DF

Mar 16, 2001 | 12:39 AM

FE427TP

Posting Guru

Joined: Oct 1999

Posts: 1,188

Likes: 0

From: yes

FE Big Blocks

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 16-Mar-01 AT 01:40 AM (EST)[/font][p]> Isn't the 383 an MEL
>engine, like the 430 and
>462? I have seen a
>389 FT before.
> DF

there is a 359 FT also, I'm kinda curious how they fit in with the other FT's

Mar 16, 2001 | 11:14 AM

Post Fiend

Joined: Feb 2000

Posts: 5,130

Likes: 8

From: Brea CA

FE Big Blocks

The plank head MELs ran from ’58 thru the first half of ’68. Displacements were 383, 410 (Edsel only), 430 and 462. For ’58 the Lincolns and the big Mercs got the 383 and 430, the Square Bird got the 430 in ‘59. The MELs were only available in the Lincolns during the ‘60s and were supposed to be discontinued by the end of the ’67 season with the introduction of the new 385 series Big Block for ’68. LM ended up with an excess of 462s so they were installed in the early ’68 Lincolns. We used to have a Conference for the MEL but Ken removed it a while ago due to low traffic.

Barry

Mar 16, 2001 | 11:22 PM

karljay

Cargo Master

Joined: Jul 2000

Posts: 2,281

Likes: 18

From: Northern California

FE Big Blocks

I saw a 359HD in an old U-Haul truck, looked like a 2 ton or larger and someone snaged the tranny before I got there. The block looked about the same but bolted up at the front with a special timming cover. The story I heard was that the FT blocks were used by Ford under a special contract with UHaul and they got different engines. I don't know how different they were from the normal FT engines, but I understood it was for heavy trucks only.