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12-20-2014, 03:28 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: White City,
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Cobra Make, Engine: West Coast, 460 CID
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Originally Posted by patrickt
Close, but sidepipes make it...
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Perhaps, but not everyone is keen on the high ankle tattoo you get after contact with hot side pipes. |
12-20-2014, 03:32 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Originally Posted by cycleguy55
Perhaps, but not everyone is keen on the high ankle tattoo you get after contact with hot side pipes.
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But you only get it on one leg.  |
12-20-2014, 04:09 PM
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Note that the 427 body style refers to the CID under the hood, not the block. If you want to be boring but correct you would have a 427 BB under the hood. If you want to trump boring and also be correct you would have a 427 SB under the hood. The number "427" by itself is meaningless, when associated to Shelby's intent in '66 to develop the most powerful high-performance roadster he could, then you have meaning. With today's replicas how do you meet Shelby's intent back in '66, you replicate the 427 body and put a 427 SB in it 
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12-20-2014, 04:19 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Originally Posted by AL427SBF
...how do you meet Shelby's intent back in '66, you replicate the 427 body and put a 427 SB in it |
Well that made no sense whatsoever, but, OK, you do know that the "true" displacement of the 428 was 427.4 cubic inches? |
12-20-2014, 06:02 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Moultonboro,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Hi-Tech 427 Comp by Craig Coombe
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Good point, Cycleguy, after getting a nasty snake bite on her ankle, my granddaughter seems to think my roadster is more appealing than my S/C.
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12-20-2014, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by patrickt
... It's just a crime not to put an FE in a 427 body car ...
- small blocks can make just as much power
- FEs weigh more
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SAI - Following the FIA World Manufacturing Championship in 1965, Shelby American began work on upgrading our signature roadster design. In 1966 we debuted the 427 S/C, our most powerful high-performance roadster, for street and competition (S/C).
Quote:
Originally Posted by AL427SBF
... With today's replicas how do you meet Shelby's intent back in '66, you replicate the 427 body and put a 427 SB in it
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Quote:
Originally Posted by patrickt
Well that made no sense whatsoever, but, OK ...
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Power to weight ratio was the name of the game back then = Shelby's intent with the 427 CID.
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12-20-2014, 07:26 PM
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But what about the tears in the kids' eyes when you open your hood at car shows and they see that it's "only another small block?" I'm sorry but I just can't do that to them....  |
12-20-2014, 07:46 PM
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But what about the tears in the kids' eyes when you open your hood at car shows and they see that it's "only another small block?" I'm sorry but I just can't do that to them.... |
Then do not, I repeat DO NOT tell them you destroked yours to make it spin up like SB
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