Thread: thinking about building a 429/460

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Thats why I like the fords........I am lookin at 550 -600 on the stock crank Of course ,I am only gunna turn it to 6000 rpm or so.

Originally Posted by shawnlee28

Thats why I like the fords........I am lookin at 550 -600 on the stock crank Of course ,I am only gunna turn it to 6000 rpm or so.

Shawn,he was talking about a new "cast steel" crank not the stock factory crank.

Correct,...........that one goes to almost 1000 hp.

Originally Posted by shawnlee28

Thats why I like the fords........I am lookin at 550 -600 on the stock crank Of course ,I am only gunna turn it to 6000 rpm or so.

We've done about 1800HP on the stock factory cast cranks. Don't try this at home! 800-1000HP from a carefully selected, well prepped OEM crankshaft ought to hold up in an engine privided it is kept in good tune. But if you are building engine's of that HP level, you can certainly afford a better crankshaft. We use the cast cranks in our own engines but would not put one into a customer's engine.

Paul

MRC, here's a good budget, maintenance-free, pump gas stroker combo for the street:

• Stock block with oiling mods
• 500 cube stroker kit with 4.14 stroke crank, 6.800 H-beam rods, .030" overbore 32cc dished pistons
• HV oil pump
• Lunati 61605 hydraulic cam
• Ported C9VE heads with 2.19" intake/1.76 exhaust valves, requisite port work, springs retainers, locks etc.
• Quality roller rockers, such as Crane Gold Series or equivalent.
• Weiand Stealth part number 8012 aluminum intake manifold
• Holley 950HP
• Recurved Duraspark distributor or MSD breakerless
• Headers
• (this makes a 9.8:1 c/r)

A well planned version of the above build ought to manage at least 550 HP and have the potential for much, much more with induction changes and a camshaft upgrade...but at the cost of fuel economy and preventive maintenance.

Paul

Just going to add my .02 to the mix; I have a 460+.060,line bored,decked,iron heads (76 lincoln) ported by myself on the exhaust side and gasket matched on intake side, 3 angle valve job, .020 milled from heads,flat top hyper-utetic pistons, arp rod bolts, all balanced,Comp Cams 270H kit, edelbrok performer intake with 750cfm carb,hedders with 2 in primarys,stock ignition with mallory box, stock oil pump,RV torque converter and C6 trans, very streetable on pump gas. This is in my 1963 Mercury Monterey 2 dr sedan and it suprises many a chebby that laughs at big heavy cars with the blue oval, my biggest problem is traction, I can fry the tires way past 80 mph if I launch too hard.