64 Thunderbolt, are you there?
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I did a 427 tunnel-port conversion with a friend on a Fairlane. Wotta job. Came up with an HEH-B top loader but the car would blow a rear end with a nudge of the throttle.
Those were the days. In '71 Ford ended the Muscle Car program. A 289 Hi-Po shortblock assembled NEW 249 dollars. A PAIR of 289 Hi-Po heads 71 dollars. And i mean assembled with valves everything.
I tried to get a complete SOHC 427 crate engine. Good luck.
But in 1970 the landlord came into my house when I was in Montana and stole a conversion kit I purchased in 1962. 312 heads, pistons, camshaft, distributor, and paxton supercharger. All the trim, a total conversion kit. Returned, found the doors locked, the locked closet door pried open, and the parts gone. Good-ol-boy from Bamma, he was. One of the few people in the world who knew what was in the closet (only my immediate family knew as well). Funny thing, he ended up buying a newer car a couple of weeks after my return. Even stranger, the car developed fatal electrical problems shortly thereafter. Goodbye T-Bird.
Those were the days. In '71 Ford ended the Muscle Car program. A 289 Hi-Po shortblock assembled NEW 249 dollars. A PAIR of 289 Hi-Po heads 71 dollars. And i mean assembled with valves everything.
I tried to get a complete SOHC 427 crate engine. Good luck.
But in 1970 the landlord came into my house when I was in Montana and stole a conversion kit I purchased in 1962. 312 heads, pistons, camshaft, distributor, and paxton supercharger. All the trim, a total conversion kit. Returned, found the doors locked, the locked closet door pried open, and the parts gone. Good-ol-boy from Bamma, he was. One of the few people in the world who knew what was in the closet (only my immediate family knew as well). Funny thing, he ended up buying a newer car a couple of weeks after my return. Even stranger, the car developed fatal electrical problems shortly thereafter. Goodbye T-Bird.
