Re: Better late than never. (revised 6-11-05)
Tengals, you arrived on the scene after my motor debacle. The one in the album was a perfectly good motor. I just redid the heads in the summer of '03. Once I removed it from the boat I decided that I was going to build me a midlife V8 to put back in it.<br /><br />I proceeded to have a stroked 331 cid engine built out of spare parts, leaving the pictured engine intact. I stored them both in my storage facility, waiting for good weather to paint the new motor.<br /><br />In the first week of Dec '04, both motors were stolen. As you might imagine, I was crestfallen and that is why my project languished up until a month ago. Once I began to see sunshine (a rarity in winter in the PNW) I decided to get back into gear. I couldn't afford to duplicate the stolen 331, so I picked up a 36k mi 2001 Ford Explorer 5.0 roller cam salvage motor.<br /><br />After swapping out all the peripherals, that motor is nearing the point of getting the paint job that the 331 was waiting for.<br /><br />While it won't have the same poop as my 331 would have, it should be pretty snappy compared to the original 302. It'll have the roller cam with a early 351 windsor grind, roller rockers, a point higher compression, 4 bbl instead of 2 bbl and Ford's latest greatest breathing heads.
