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All this ford talk is making my legs/feet hurt, last time I had a ford walked alot more than I drove
 
WG is my biggest hero!, i havent had any problems with my truck so i dont care its a truck that has had alot of hard miles on her 111,487 to be exact
 
half a vikadin and a screwdriver. go parasailing with that combo and you will have the ****** time of your life!
 
As I've told James, I am a mechanic, not a premier engine builder. I know how to rebuild them, I can read cam profiles (getting better at that), choose intakes, track down forged components, understand porting/bowl blending, but high horse power in a 3k lb car is way different then a 7k lb truck with the aero dynamics of a brick. Especially when the truck is used on the farm. It would be a little different if it were a diesel, and had the turbo and bottom end that the little 351 lacks. A little boost with a mild cam will make a nice improvement without being choked up. Increase the air flow in, and out, degree in the cam to taylor the power band, and it will be a much better performer. Case in point (yes I will bring up chevy it is what I know) back in the '60s and '70s the most common thing to do was to get a L79 cam and put it in a small block with completely stock heads (hopefully double humps), and get 350 horse out of it. They also had the 30-30 cam. Now, today we have TONS of different heads and cams available to us, unlike my dad and his friends had back in the golden days. I can throw one of Comp's cams in my truck with stock heads, get headers and intake for it and make good reliable power for a DD that tows. It all depends on how involved he wants to get with it. I'd kinda like to know what the stock cam profile is for his truck to compare it to the aftermarket. Now I feel better having added my .02. lol
 
well i grew up under the hood and i have built some screaming small blocks and a few big clocks. i'm built everything from a chevy 283 to a sbf 302... infact one of the meanest motors i built was a 302 ford... my cousin wanted it in his 86 2wd shortbed. i used the stock heads that i ported and polished and put a set of 9.5:1 pistons in and a nice intake, carb, big cam, long tubes. she was so tight on the first start i had to use 2 batteries wired together to touch it off the first time. he whooped every 5.0 mustang that was "hot ****" at the time with it and pissed a kid off and ended up with a hand full of brake rotor turnings down the intake... tore it all to hell and back.
no i'm not the best but i know what work with what and how to put a high performance engine together and i can do it withough asking the guy behind the parts counter for help.

and if he doubts it then just bring that "700hp" mustang out when i finish my chevy and i'll show ya
 
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