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I was initially going to use a 430 in my last project, just to be different. I got the motor all torn down and mated the block to a Lakewood scattershield, bought a toploader and the whole business. (The motor has a FE bellhousing pattern). Then, when I started looking for hot rod parts for the motor, there was nothing to be had that I could afford. After researching it some more, I sold the motor to a rebuilder and bought a 429 for the project. It's going to be hard to get that motor to run properly on today's pump fuels. It was built when high octane gas was cheap and had tetraethyl lead in it to protect the valve/valve seat interface. The other wierd thing about the motor is that the combustion chamber is in the cylinder. This is achieved by producing a piston with a wedge angle on one side. The underside of the cylinder head is flat, much like the 348/409 Chevy heads. The chamber is huge and is detonation prone.

I'm not saying you can't make it work, but just be aware that there are some issues with this 50-plus year old design.

By the way, the later 462 is the same motor with a longer stroke. It was used primarily in the big Lincolns from about '65 to '67, just before the introduction of the 428 and 429.