Yeah, cast Iron.
Truthfully, this six build is more to keep me from going crazy with a bored and stroked 351.
I would have this car being nothing more than a fair weather princess at best had I gone with a larger engine. I probably would have believed a roll cage would be best for it next had I gone the more common hp route. Chasing a 1000hp and still driving an old beater for daily use.
It's not about being cheaper either, you have to believe me the parts that'll go into this engine cost just as much as a V8 would.
It's not about be different for me, I like my belly button lint:zombie:. Fact is I'll go look at my lint collection before I go to work.
So, in other words, I'm doing this because I'm a weak, weak man.
It is interesting doing this build though, I wouldn't have had a roots supercharger on my engine otherwise.
*Awwwwww,....now look what you've gone and done Dave,.....opened a can of "Mike Soapbox Rant", and now it's spilling all over the place.....
What a bunch of malarkey. I haven't seen this much nonsensical rambling since re-reading one of my old posts.
You're saying the you chose this engine to keep yourself from getting all " off the deep end" with a 351 based build?
A 1000 HP Windsor would've been no less over the top than a 400 hp 3.8. The steps that you'll have to take to keep that little engine happy with that much power will be more than a tick over routine maintenance.
For one thing, Once you pulley that blower to make the boost necessary to make that much power, it'll always be that way......Unlike a turbo with a waste gate, there's no adjustable "daily driver mode" once a roots supercharger is set to full kill.
Big boost means that there'll always be that need to feed the engine the octane to keep it all together..( a condition that I'm all too familiar with). One way or the other, you'll have to deal with that monkey. If that means checking the reservoir in the trunk to make sure it's full of water/meth, adding several gallons of toluene /race gas to each fill up,
or simply being able to add 12 ounces of vroom-vroom to your tank,..you're probably gonna have to do it.
Oklahoma gets hot, Roots blowers get hot. Roots blowers in Oklahoma get hotter. That little aluminum box on your engine will heat soak....Ford knew that. But they only built that engine to put out 200 hp. And Inter cooling designed to cool down a modest power level was well within their design objectives for a daily drivable, warrantable engine package.
But, Yours will be double that..
With all that extra power, the need to keep everything cool goes up at some exponential number I'm sure. Engine temp, and Intake air temp are both gonna require a lot of attention from the aftermarket to keep everything in check.
I applaud your decision to travel the path you're going, I don't have to tell you that I was more than thrilled when you chose that engine over a Windsor "anything" build....
But at the same time, you are going down a road that less than single digit percentages of the Ford fanatic have the balls to travel down...They don't know that engine, They don't wanna know that engine, and they ain't willing to try either....it's all too easy to stay in the comfort zone of familiarity.
"Weak?"......time to face reality Dave........
You did this to keep yourself from building another 1000 hp Windsor, because it'd be just
another 1000 hp Windsor.
