Thread: to 427 or not to 427..?
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Old 05-23-2002, 07:56 PM
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Cool to 427 or not to 427..?
Perhaps it is my proximity to Turk's house.. Maybe it is just knowing the longer I wait the harder and more expensive parts will become (enless my neighbor has a garage sale).. More likely it has to do with trying to decide what to do when people say, whoa.. a 427.. It isn't a side oiler, is it? ( not cobra people) and trying to explaine the 428 and why it isn't a 427.. But mostly I think it is about finding out what the top speed of a Cobra really is..

Guys, I am starting to obsess about a building a 427.. Not one of those tunnel port things some guys want to build.. It has to idle.. No. I'm thinking 12:1, single carb, soild cam '66 NASCAR style that will turn 7,000 rpm... I found a short block that has been rebuilt.. It is a service block from 1968.. Steel crank, new pistons.. $5k I have 427 low rise heads that will be fine for the time being.. I could keep the 8v intake and swap out the 450 cfm's for some 650's... Hmmmm...

Any thoughts.. Anyone start out with a perfectly good 425 hp 428 and feel it wasn't enough? Or feel like they need to go 155 mph?? Anyone actually do it? Was it worth it? Are you still married?

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