Maybe it's a matter of perspective. Nash, what is your definition of superfast?

The Booze brothers have big body Fords that are ungodly fast, but they also have cubic yards of cash and years of experience invested in them to achieve that level of performance. Red LeBlanc runs an FE in a Mustang that is amazing, same situation.

Now with your 65 Galaxie and a budget of $1500, things are going to have to come in steps. Cheap, fast, reliable, you can only pick two. There is nothing wrong with the performer rpm cam for street/strip performance. FE's never came with C-4 transmissions. It will have either a cruisomatic/fmx or a C-6. A good thing for your budget is that the car should have a 9" rearend (probably 28 spline axles). A new ring & pinion isn't expensive and there is a wide range of gear ratios available. Depending on rear tire OD, you could use anything from a 3.50 to 4.11 gear and notice a large improvement in acceleration.

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68LTD, If you want to upgrade to electronic ignition, there are two cheap ways and one expensive way to do it.

The inexpensive ways are pick up a stock electronic distributor and amplifier box for a 1975 Ford pickup with a 360/390 or get new bushing put in the original distributor and put in a Pertronix conversion kit. The expensive way is swapping in all aftermarket. Billet distributor, big MSD box with rev control, etc.

Like I mentioned to Nash earlier the factory police interceptor intake flows much better than the normal 390 4 bbl intake. I believe there was a cast iron version so if you have a friend or two to help you with the swap, you can pick up the the iron version much cheaper than the aluminum.