I love the 'ol girl with all-my-heart.but have you seen a sonic map of a race Hemi vs. The "Blue Crescent" was a running prototype by middle '68. Ford obviously knew the block architeture of the FE was marginal for any more than the power they were making at that time. The cammer was a late '65 project.the 385 was in production in the summer of '67 for the '68 model run. Second, usually a new engine design is 3 years from drawing board to production. Quite an engineering feat, but you gotta reason that there was some desperation to stay among the front runners to warrant such a push. First, Ford literature is proud to say that the cammer was designed and rushed into production in 90 days. there are a couple of clues that let you know that the Ford boys were think'n they'd need something more to be competitive. I'm fresh out of Cammers, but I'm guessing that my tunnel port 427 in a Fairlane would also eat the hemi's lunch.Ħ6 Fairlane 500 convt, toploader, 9", built 390Ĥ27 Side Oiler Tunnel Port 2x4 - looking for a 64 Fairlane sedan to drop it in! Roadrunner has a stock appearing 426 with CNC ported alum heads, roller cam, 10:1 compression, pump gas friendly 550 hp. My BBF '67 Fairlane eats my 426 Hemi Roadrunner's lunch! Of course, the Fairlane is a legit 796 hp high 9 second car if I can get it to hook. I could use all the help I can get to win this guy over, he is very hard headed. I know there will be a lot of bias tword the FE, but I need good hard facts as to way the 427 SOHC was the better engine. I was having an argument with a buddy of mine about what was the better engine.
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