[mr bruce]

Steel, the fans keep bringing up the history and how great the FE WAS. That was 35 years ago, time marches on. As for FoMoCo stealing the BBC design and improving on it, maybe so, but the General has also been redesigning stuff. Get yourself one of the GM Performance parts catalogs.It's probably double the size of the Ford counterpart. GM is VERY progressive in the design and supply of their performance parts. All the top quality hard parts are much easier to source for the GM motors. Some of us should face the fact that it's a Chevy world out there. (PS, at present count ,I have 29 engines in my garage ,ranging from a 239 flathead(the ORIGINAL FE), to Windsors of various displacements, a coupla Clevelands, 3-5 FEs, and at least a dozen 385s, including a CobraJet, and a Super Cobra Jet. 1SBC,and 1BBC)I'd love for someone to build a 385 motor to kill the Chevys on a roadcourse, you WILL have your work cut out for you though.Also, the Can-Am from 66 to 73? or when the Porsches took over.