Thread: What exactly is an "FE"??
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Old 05-14-2002, 03:53 PM
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The Ford FE engine started life in 1958 as a 332 cubic inch engine. It was subsequently produced in displacements of 332/352/360/361/390/406/410/427/428 and remained in production until 1976. The FE was the "power-block" from Ford for most of the Sixties.

The name "FE" (..according to the book, "Ford 1903-1984" by David L. Lewis, Mike McCarville, and Lorin Sorensen) was devised principally by Robert Stevenson, who was chief engineer at Ford Engine & Foundry (i.e. FE) where the first FE block was cast in 1957.
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