When I was getting ready to have my motor built, we sent the original 460 block to a local shop. They pressure checked the block and sure enough, it was cracked. So was the next donor block bought from a boneyard. We took that one back and got another from them.

This one was okay. It was bead-blasted, hot tanked, milled, and bored out to 0.60 over, for I think 175 bucks, it might have been more. We used a double-roller timing chain, ported and polished the original 71 heads(this took a long time), put Keith Black pistons in, install a bigger cam, a new water pump, a new radiator, a set of real roller rockers from MadDog racing, a Weiand Stealth manifold(but it sits way too high for me), a Pertronix II electronic ignition kit, and a polished 800cfm Edelbrock EPS carb.

I just got the car back from the muffler shop after having dual exhaust put on, I couldn't hack the factory single exhaust. Sounds so nice now, a real deep thobbing pulse when idling. My huge, heavy-ass Lincoln seems to run fine and has alot more power than it did before the rebuild... but a stroker would be SWEET!

Michael