[Ace23]

Originally Posted by Anthony

My post was directed that you can still make a lot of power with a dual plane intake.

And as an caveat, a "1964 Ford crate 427 Hi-Riser dual plane intake engine" made a lot of horsepower, even though many consider that it was at a disadvantage being that it was FE design coupled with a dual plane intake, and it performed as well, or even better than a much more state of the art crate 427 windsor.

So, I think if you get a good dual plane, as compared to a single plane, there may not be as much of a difference in HP as you may think.

I didn;t build my FE 427 with any HP figures as a target, or was intially comparing it to any other engine. I wanted to replicate a 427 FE that one could purchase from Ford at that time the 427 cobra's were being built. The HP output is what it is, and it surprised me to some degree. If it was lower, I still would have been equally satisfied, as the HP figure was really not that important to me, only to get it dyno tuned to the best it could be.

Anthony,
I have no dog in the hunt. As long as your FE is making what you have been told and your happy then thats all that matters. I wouldn't know an FE if it fell on my head! I'm just a fortunate younger generation guy that is wading through the weeds of cobra ownership for the first time