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Originally Posted by jacobsed

It is that motor. At 10k miles it was freshened up with new street friendly internals. It didn't oil itself well cruising around as it is a drag and race motor by design and started making not great noises. It was new back in 2000. Maybe Ford is doing something different with it now.

I'm no motor builder so I am not speaking from experience but I've heard a good many stories of Ford Motorsport engine failures....a SPF coupe local to me had a 427 That just failed a few months back that was basically new. I'm sure Ford's volume is much higher than the 1 man shop but you sure hear avoid amount of failures. Glad to hear you have it freshened up and I'm sure it's a blast.

Originally Posted by Joe's Garage

Seeing how some of you would like to rehash this SB vs. BB debate, enjoy -

small block vs. big block in a cobra









I'll check back later to see if the tomatoes have started flying.

all these big blocker haters!

Originally Posted by blykins

557 ci BBF.....as mentioned, P51 heads, hydraulic roller.....700 hp.

Is that a pretty conservative 557 and how high can you spin it