ford lightning blocks

MDP727 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2005, 05:22 PM

Hey gang are the lightning blocks aluminum? Any opinions of these blocks?
My BDR 211 will be here in 2 weeks with a 408 lightning block. Vic jr intake and Vic jr ported and polished heads.

Ibr8k4vetts · #2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2005, 05:31 PM

No, only the heads

For more info on Lightning's contact Sal (Power Surge) he is the Lightning god!

Ibr8k4vetts · #3 (**permalink**) 01-04-2005, 05:40 PM

I think the Navigator come with aluminum block and Four valve head's

powerpagers · #4 (**permalink**) 01-09-2005, 06:21 PM

IRON BLOCKS !!!!

Mike Simard · #5 (**permalink**) 01-09-2005, 06:37 PM

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Originally posted by MDP727

408 lightning block

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Are you thinking of the early Lightnings? They had an iron block 351 windsor. It would be a good modern roller block to base a build on. The later 2nd gen lightnings are what most people thing of, they have a completely different engine that wouldn't fit into any cobra ;-)

luckeyds · #6 (**permalink**) 01-09-2005, 08:50 PM

Both generation Lightnings used iron blocks.

PSB · #7 (**permalink**) 01-10-2005, 10:16 AM

Hate to burst your bubble, but there is absolutely zero difference between a first generation Lightning block and the standard truck 351W block of the same years.

The difference in a Lightning 351W and a regular truck 351W is the heads, cam, intake, and fuel injection system.

BTW in '94-'96 the Lightning had a flat tappet cam (but had a roller capable block) where the vanilla truck engines had roller cams.

Pete