The pistons will be the fly in the ointment. They'll be hard to find without being pricey, but in my opinion, if you can find all the parts to put together a 422, it'll peg the grin meter, particularly in a Fairlane with GT or GTA badges on the front fenders, depending on whether it's stick or auto. :eek: I drove one of these when they were new ('66). Fastest I ever drove on a public road, buried the speedo. As good as it could get in my opinion is to order up a Toploader from David Kee and build a 4-spd GT. I strongly suspect that you could send a few Chevies home with their tails between their legs. I did find some -17.4cc dishes for a 428 made by Ross. It's a possibility that they would be agreeable to cut the diameter to 4.110" for a +0.060" 410 motor. The 428 piston number is 99604, so call up Ross and see if they would cooperate. Read this paragraph on their FE page....."If you do not see the FE Ford series V8 engine pistons with the specs you need below, please visit our custom piston page and we will be glad to assist you with a custom set of pistons for your FE Ford or Mercury FE engine project."
http://www.campbellenterprises.com/r...ne_pistons.htm
Anyway, I'm gonna build this motor with the Ross 17.4cc dish pistons for this DynoSim.
410 block, bored 0.060".
410/428 crank, 3.980" stroke.
410 rods.
Ross (-17.4cc) dish pistons, 4.110" diameter, 1.675" compression height. With 72cc heads, these pistons will make 9.46:1 static compression ratio, just right for a street motor on pump gas.
Heads, Edelbrock aluminum #60069, 2.09" intake valves, 1.66" exhaust valves, 72cc chambers, 170cc intake runners.
Intake manifold, Edelbrock Performer RPM FE, part #7105 plain as cast or #71054 Enduroshine.
Carb, 850 CFM of your choice. Double pumper with a 4-spd. Vacuum secondaries with an automatic.
Large-diameter primary headers, long tube, equal-length, tuned. "X" pipe right behind the collectors, 2 1/2"/2 3/4" pipes to the rear through mufflers of your choice.
Cam, Crower 16255 hydraulic flat tappet, 280/288 degrees advertised, 224/232 degrees @ 0.050", Intake Centerline 104 degrees ATDC, Exhaust Centerline 112 degrees BTDC, Lobe Separation Angle (Lobe Center) 108, Theoretical valve lift intake 0.549", exhaust 0.560". Overlap 12 degrees @ 0.050". Timing events are: Intake opens 8 degrees BTDC, closes 36 ABDC, Exhaust opens 48 BBDC, closes 4 ATDC. Dynamic compression ratio with this cam and 9.46 static compression ratio is 8.3:1
Stock block deck height, 10.170".
Piston deck height with Ross pistons, 0.017".
Ford M-6051-A427 0.040" compressed gaskets for squish of 0.057". If you want to tighten the squish up to 0.045", cut 0.012" off the decks for a block deck height of 10.158".
RPM HP TQ
1500 126 440
2000 179 470
2500 225 472
3000 285 500
3500 354 531
4000 407 535
4500 458 535
5000 500 521
5500 483 461
6000 456 400
Talk about a torque monster!!!!!!!:eek: I used this same cam in a 390 I simmed for JeffB2. He suggested it and it worked out so well that I used it on this sim. We used another half point of static compression ratio on Jeff's motor though and the DCR was a little high. This 422 motor will pull like Jack the Bear from idle to 6000. Paint the intake motor color and tell everybody it's a stock 390 with headers. :LOL:
