I am finally getting some work done on a long neglected project, my 67 XR7 GT Mercury Cougar, car was park in 84 with a rod nock, I had picked up many years ago a 66 427 SO block to build to go in place of the 390, and I am finally getting around to doing it.

I pretty much want to stay away from chinese parts, so I picked up an early factory steel 427 crank for my build, it came with grooved mains which there is a little bearing issue, and this particular crank comes with 2 additional counterweights off the center main, I've had the crank sent to Performance Crankshaft (Adney Brown) to get worked over.





My side oiler block has been at Costa Mesa R&D Machine Shop for a while, for a cleaning and initial check up, The block is currently wore std bore with one sleve. While waiting for machine work I've sent the block out to get acid dipped, and have gotten it back, did some prep and painted it.



This build is going to take a while, so I have picked up a 390 short block project to R&R the rod nocking motor still in the car.

Here are the current eng & car spec's:

Rod Nocking 390
428 SCJ Heads
Offy Port a Sonic
Cam: Old Greg Foreman-Gus Davis Grind .612" lift, Dur 312*-258@.050
2 1/8" Hooker's
Built C-6, 3,500 Stall
Locker 4:57

The car was a blast and had less than 500 miles on the engine build before the rod went, probably a spun bearing ? The rod went during a pass at the drag strip @ 7,000 rpm 2nd gear, with only a 5 quart pan and no oil restrictors in the heads, so I think the all the oil was in the valve covers and the rods were starved for oil ? I left the headers un-corked and drove it home with the rod-nock.