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My 65 F-250 Engine Swap
Posted: August 3, 2019, 8:30 pm
by chris401
Slowly taking place. Once I get the cross members and starter pocket fabricated it will go quicker. Until our pictures can be loaded directly to this site I will be posting them on the MEL Engine Forum:
http://ford-mel-engine.com/viewtopic.ph ... 6904#p6904
Re: My 65 F-250 Engine Swap
Posted: August 4, 2019, 7:19 am
by 04sd
Looks like an interesting swap. Are you using a truck 4spd?
Re: My 65 F-250 Engine Swap
Posted: August 4, 2019, 10:05 am
by chris401
04sd wrote:Looks like an interesting swap. Are you using a truck 4spd?
I am planning on using a non OD Clark 5 speed and the auxiliary 3 speed. I am keeping the original FE location to avoid changing driveshaft lengths when swapping engines
Re: My 65 F-250 Engine Swap
Posted: August 4, 2019, 4:45 pm
by 04sd
I did some reading on the 430, short lived but quite an engine for it's time. I'm sure if I were just a little bit older I'd have been swapping those motors into pickups. By the late 70's and 80's it was easy to find 429/460s cheap. I had three pickups with 460s back then and came close to buying one for my 66 but decided to go with an EFI Windsor and overdrive auto. You'll have a cool truck with the period correct 430 in there. Is it possible to find the 3x2 intakes anymore?
Re: My 65 F-250 Engine Swap
Posted: August 4, 2019, 10:21 pm
by chris401
Re: My 65 F-250 Engine Swap
Posted: August 4, 2019, 10:23 pm
by chris401
Those "High Performance" EDG 4 barrel intakes you see on line are just 57-59 stock intakes. I have 4 of them.
Re: My 65 F-250 Engine Swap
Posted: August 20, 2019, 10:50 pm
by chris401
Added some more pictures to the MEL Forum. Photos and measurements of a C4TA-7505-G 330/361/391/Industrial 428 FT bell housing in a 2 wheel drive 66 F-100.