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Old 06-05-2016, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe's Garage View Post
The difference is where that power shows up, BB gets the power sooner and tops out sooner, SB later on both - just google dyno charts for the 427 variants.
That's actually another wives tale. Where an engine gets its power and loses it is a function of the camshaft and cylinder heads. Otherwise, you can make a 427FE behave exactly like a 427SBF.

Everyone thinks that because it's a big block that it's going to have mind-numbing torque at any rpm and automatically peter out at low rpms, or since it's a small block that it's going to rev to the moon and be gutless at low rpm. Just doesn't happen like that in reality.
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