347 reasons to love my car again

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it sucks (I know) to be on the receiving end
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So i've been away for a few days because of a sudden spur of the moment stroker purchase. I had planned on getting my car painted with my tax refund money, but a local guy decided to put a big block Chevy engine in his racecar so he sold me his 347 and the deal was just too good to pass up. I thought i was done with my engine for a while and i was happy with the times it was running but i've been wanting to rebuidl it really bad...so i started looking at what it would cost me to just hone the cylinders and put in new rings and bearings and by the time i did all that i would've spent half of what i spent on this 347 so i couldn't pass it up.


So anyways...i don't really do project threads...my car is too ugly to go around strutting off pics of it, so here's just a quick cell phone pic of the block before i dropped it in. I've always wanted a red engine but i'm really happy with how the Ford blue turned out.

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Oh, the engine itself has Eagle crank and rods, forged SRP pistons (comes out to 9-9.5:1 with my heads), Anderson Ford Motorsports N91 cam, ARP everything, windage tray, 7qt pan..etc. With Dart heads it ran 10.50s all motor...my heads i'm sure don't flow quite as well but i'm expecting mid-high 11s if i can keep from breaking everything.
 
your car is so ugly you should just give it to me and save yourself the embaressment of being seen in it. oh, and that 347 is garbage, I mean how fast can a blue motor go??? you should just give that to me too.......:D
 
Yeah, your car is butt ugly, don't post that beotch! :D

Sounds like the engine was still a good buy! You'll paint that thing eventually. Now I'm gonna need some car lengths. :p
 
nice find :nice:

staying carb I hope :D

Absolutely :nice:

Its definately blue...

Yeah, the pic makes it look a little brighter blue than it really is. When i get a chance i'll take pics with my camera and post'em up.

what heads are you running

i think he's got 351 heads off a mach

That's correct, at least according to Autozone. They told me the C90E's came off of Mach 1s, but i'm pretty sure any '69-70 351W came with those heads. They're ported and polished to hell and back with 1.94/1.60 valves, but i'm pretty sure they'll end up being the bottle neck at high RPM. The guy i bought the engine from said he shifted at 7400RPM but i highly doubt i'll make power that high. I'm hoping it'll make power at least to 6500 but we'll see. I'm always doing things one part at a time so i can get heads to match the cam sometime down the road.

Oh and the pic in my sig makes the car look much better than it does right now. After i swapped on some clean doors, i started doing some body work so it looks pretty crappy right now. Here's the most recent pic, from last Fall at our Stangbangerz fall cruise in.

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