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Originally posted by stingc
Can these still be found? (referring to the 63.5 427)
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I would guess, but they're tough to find. The only luck I had was looking for 427 Galaxies. They are uncommon, but easier to get ahold of than the performance cars with 427's. As you are going to swap out heads, intake, and exhaust manifolds anyway, who cares if it isn't a 427 from a "cool" car. The big thing to look for the 4-bolt mains version. Everything else is mutable.
As an aside, I've not built one. I did find a couple for friends. My experience with the engine comes from my Dad's Hot Rod Lincoln, a '56 Lincoln Premier with a 63.5 427 Side Oiler and a 4-speed manual that was VERY tough to make fit. It was this huge brute of a car weighing in at well over two tons, but that engine was so freakinshly torquey that it threw that old Lincoln down the road with a vengeance. 3/4 race cam, homemade headers, port and polish job done the old way (the car was built in the mid-sixties so everything was done the old way), and had to have retaining straps built in for the cam and crank, and was also required to have a scattershield over the tranny cover and under the oil-pan.
Beast of a car =)