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From Tremayne

450ci SBF 950hp

The engine with the big 3Vs is a 440ci sbf streeter. Very Tuff.

They are putting together a lot of excellent engines there and seem to have alot of very nice ford builds.

The cnc work they do on roush Yates head's is magic. But their own nxtgen sbf heads look brilliant. Pic is of one being made.

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From Tremayne

450ci SBF 950hp

The engine with the big 3Vs is a 440ci sbf streeter. Very Tuff.

They are putting together a lot of excellent engines there and seem to have alot of very nice ford builds.

The cnc work they do on roush Yates head's is magic. But their own nxtgen sbf heads look brilliant. Pic is of one being made.
Very cool! The power levels that come with that level of investment are truly amazing. Thanks for posting. Chuck

 
Man that's awesome, thanks for posting Luke. Those complete heads would cost more than my entire engine build and that includes IF I do go ahead and CNC port the heads. It's amazing the amount of 8-9 second N/A fully complienced street cars that drive to the track and drive home, not like that long ago when they were basically drag cars with rego plates. I would really loved to have had machines like these when I was still machining, I'd be like a fat kid in a candy shop and the possibilities would've been endless. No wonder it's getting harder and harder to find people that will hand port heads these days and getting even harder for cast iron. A few minutes for each port in a CNC that are all exact and precise with only a little blending by hand, compared to hours upon hours doing them by hand.

Mate, are you sure this isn't your engine for the Monaro, lol.

 
I wish, the little 580ish pump gas 383 that I will build would only be good enough as a starter for them. It will however be alot cheaper and easy to live with just, don't tell anyone it's a chevy ok

 
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One of their in house 8degree sbc heads. Superb machining.

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One of these spacers showed an extra 20hp on the dyno, obviously spot on for that combo.

seriously thought about having them build my engine. But will get them to machine everything and a mechanic mate and I will build it. I need a massive amount of supervision haha then he will still have to check everything and tune it lol

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I wish, the little 580ish pump gas 383 that I will build would only be good enough as a starter for them. It will however be alot cheaper and easy to live with just, don't tell anyone it's a chevy ok
I wish it was mine as well. As it is from what started out as a basic overhaul of the engine has turned out to be much more than originally planned. The best part about a chev is the price of parts, plus it doesn't take much of a brain to slap one together, lol. As I've always said, imagine if the Cleveland got the years of R&D and different parts suppliers the Chevy's have had, the mind boggles. How'd you go with what we were speaking about the other day?

That really is some beautiful machine work there and may be in the same boat as you and use them for machine work. As I said to you mate, I'll ask one question about their machining and if they can't give me answer I want, then I'll keep looking, but I suspect they'll know what I'm after. Unfortunately all the good machine shops I knew of are now closed (like I did) as there where just too many shops competing and people expecting you to do high quality workmanship for the crap shops prices, or the remaining ones prices are so stupid to even contemplate, like we were talking about the piston machining, just about cheaper to buy new Pistons then to pay what they want to charge to do some piston machine work.

BTW not bad numbers from a N/A engine, better stop looking at these pics, the mind is ticking and don't want to end up in divorce court, lol

 
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I wish, the little 580ish pump gas 383 that I will build would only be good enough as a starter for them. It will however be alot cheaper and easy to live with just, don't tell anyone it's a chevy ok
I wish it was mine as well. As it is from what started out as a basic overhaul of the engine has turned out to be much more than originally planned. The best part about a chev is the price of parts, plus it doesn't take much of a brain to slap one together, lol. As I've always said, imagine if the Cleveland got the years of R&D and different parts suppliers the Chevy's have had, the mind boggles. How'd you go with what we were speaking about the other day?

That really is some beautiful machine work there and may be in the same boat as you and use them for machine work. As I said to you mate, I'll ask one question about their machining and if they can't give me answer I want, then I'll keep looking, but I suspect they'll know what I'm after. Unfortunately all the good machine shops I knew of are now closed (like I did) as there where just too many shops competing and people expecting you to do high quality workmanship for the crap shops prices, or the remaining ones prices are so stupid to even contemplate, like we were talking about the piston machining, just about cheaper to buy new Pistons then to pay what they want to charge to do some piston machine work.

BTW not bad numbers from a N/A engine, better stop looking at these pics, the mind is ticking and don't want to end up in divorce court, lol
To slow went straight back there and they where gone bugger

 
Don't have a coon mate, my XA's a flash one, she's a Fairmont, lol. Actually I do have a coon, the work ute, but the crappy old turbo six goes ok, it's just a work ute.

Not a bad street car then with only 1000+ HP. As I said seems to be more and more of them happening, wouldn't like the maintenance on them though, let alone the repair bill every few hundred miles. Things like springs going off and lifters beginning to get flogged. Just that alone is $2000+ in parts, let alone if you got no ides of what you're doing and have to pay somebody. Be fun going down the street though for a bottle of milk and a carton of beer, lol.

 
Lots of people forget that the closed circuit speed for a NASCAR racer was a 357 Cleveland in Bill Elliot's car beck in the 80's wasn't it something 212 mph. Those were in the 16 - 1 compression range. Elliot was going to try to break it in a stock mustang a few years back and had a tire go down and they never tried again.

But today you can get over 1,200 hp out of the 5.8 engine in the Shelby and still have air and all the other soft items. Go over 200 mph and drive to church on Sunday on pump gas. Tiny little valves and springs so not killing the cam and springs.

Yes a Cleveland was a good engine but the new ones blow them away. Hey I am 68 but seeing is believing.

 
David, that Nascar version of the 351C was a true Bad A$$! We used to say if you looked at the definition of Bad A$$ in the dictionary it would show a picture of a 351C!

In 1987 Bill Elliott ran a record setting qualifying speed at 212.809 mph around the 2.5-mile Talladega speedway. Elliott’s back stretch speeds were a little over 215 mph which was just under the 216.609 mph set by Bobby Rahal in the Indy 500 qualifying that year. Built Ford Tough!!

But like you said, the engines in the SVT vehicles now are amazing. A highway patrol friend of mine has a 04 Cobra that had been dynoed over 1,200 hp (Far from stock-lots of $$$). But he pulled that engine and is now working on a 5.0 Aluminator XS (same as used in the new Cobra Jet Mustangs) with some insane hp numbers as his goal.

I have a couple of pictures I took of his car before he removed the 4.6 engine that I'd like to submit for my contribution for "More Engine Porn!

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Comparing these old pushrod dinosaurs with the modern high tech multi valve, multi cam electronically controlled everything is like comparing apples and watermelons. Remember the Cleveland engine was at the forefront of technology back then and Ford spent an absolute fortune on tooling up the plant and computer controlled techniques to make them. That record of Bill Elliot still stands and considering all the R&D and technology since the 80's is an amazing feat considering the basic design of that engine was designed in the 60's. Remember the engine size is still the same now as it was then and parts were a lot more bulky and heavier back then as well. No wonder the Cleveland is the most banned engine in Motorsport. As I've said, imagine if the Cleveland engine had the same R&D and support of the SBC engine, it's power and parts supply would be phenomenal. Remember the only performance head for the Cleveland for many years was the factory cast iron 4V heads until the mid 80's when Ford Motorsport released alloy A3 heads and still they had the same valve configuration and identical combustion chamber design as the old cast 4V heads designed in the 60's.

As for power in modern cars, while I'm a massive V8 fan some of the power outputs from the 4 and 6 cylinder engines is astonishing. There's turbo 6 cylinder Falcons here in Australia that run 8 sec quarters, drive everywhere with awesome street manners. In fact there's a guy on you tube somewhere that has his mother drive the car around everyday to prove its reliability and streetablity, all in a 8 sec street car. Even in stock form these factory turbo engines are awesome in power and economy, I drive one nearly everyday in my work ute. In fact when the Ford engineers were developing the turbo engines they gave them the code name of "Seagull" the reason why, because they said these things would shit on everything they flew past.They actually detuned the engines down so much in factory form as they were worried that they might not sell any V8's if they kept them in the original tune they had for the engine, even then the figures were fudged to make the V8 look more powerful over the turbo 6. Another great engine that's now no more with the closure of Ford in Australia. You guys in the US don't know what you missed out on with this engine and people I've spoken with that have visited here and drove one can't believe you guys in the US missed out on this engine. When Mulally was head of Ford he took one of these cars home for his personal company car because he was that impressed by them, but wouldn't sign off on taking the engine over to the US, talk about a hypocrite.

BTW nice pic of the Boss 9, those engines just scream 60's factory power wars.

 
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