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Originally Posted by COBRA406
THere is lots of interest out there
and with the Aussies' love affair with the Cleveland, there are plenty of
aftermarket parts here and there available if one wants to pursue it. Bob T.
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Love affair
aarrgh, the big fat lump of a thing was thrust upon us by the very considerate heads at Ford who probably spent too much tooling up for production and in an economy like ours had to see it out.
The Clevo (335 series) was the only Ford V8 here for about 14 yrs, from '70 untill about '84 when Ford deleted V8's from from all passenger vehicles, then after a about a 4 year V8 drought introduced the 5.0 Windsor. We call the 302 and the 5.0's Windsor's because we also did a 302 version of the Clevo. Fully dressed this is a very good looking engine, but without alloy heads etc, very heavy.
Hence plenty of go fast bits. The 302 heads were 2V closed chamber and were essentialy the same castings as for the 351 and there were plenty of them, but most guys thought bigger was better and wouldn't settle for anything less than the 4V's
Under the hood of most late 80's and early 90's Cobra replica's here, you will find either a 351 C or 289 and 302 w. I don't know of any FE's and there are quite a number of 385's, mostly 429 Motec injected Robnell replica's.
Unfortunatly we aren't allowed as much free choice as you guy's, currently we have to comply with Euro III emissions levels, which means we have basically 2 options, the Ford 5.4 quad cam, again big and heavy, or a lot of guys, whom we refer to as the Dark Siders, are using the LS1 5.7 Chev. And I hate to admit it, theve got great output, 400hp, in standard trim, in a compact and lightweight package.