Originally Posted by AndyF
I've never understood the Mopar block situation. There are several vendors who make blocks for FE Ford engines and there is no way the FE was ever as popular as the Mopar big block. You can go to a bunch of races and car events without ever seeing a FE engine but Mopar big blocks are fairly common. So there is something else going on than economics.


as predominantly Ford guy, I disagree, I see as many FE's if not 2 to1 ratio out at my local tracks and cruise nights as I do BBM I can tell you from 1st hand experience that new FE blocks are not cheep, I have as much in to my 496FE Bear motor block build as I do my 408 G3 , both have about the same nearly identical cam and compression and that G3 makes the same power , both make about 690ish,

There are a lot of FE's in truck pulling and replica Cobra's.

I agree with the bottom of your post, most of the mopar guys I know have been well in to the low tens with half the parts that my Chevy and Ford buddies needed.

1963 Thunderbolt 496FE 10.80 (still a work in progress)
1968 Mustang slow a$$ 428 FE
1971 Boss 351 Mustang 11.20@115mph
1993 Lightning 10.61 @ 129mph 408Ci A3 headed NA
1996 Viper GTS
2001 Lightning 8.99 @ 155MPH 5.4 Mod Motor
2009 Ram 9.65@144MPH 463CI G3 NA
2010 Challenger 9.91 @ 139MPH 408CI G3ci NA
2019 F150 (local dealer's Lightning package) ..11.90s