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Re: Ford V8 in M Farmall
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Posted by Buzzman72 on March 12, 2005 at 12:13:34 from (63.185.32.196):
In Reply to: Ford V8 in M Farmall posted by SMTAD on March 11, 2005 at 17:46:52:
My FIRST impulse is to ask why you'd wanna cross up the DNA of a perfectly good Farmall, especially when IHC built so many varieties of good low-rpm torque motors, all the way up to the V-605 gas V8. But then the hot rodder in me asks, "Why NOT?" As long as the flywheel will physically fit in the M bellhousing, and the 289 balance situation mentioned below is dealt with--neither of which should be an insurmountable problem--I think the final product would be a HOOT to run...just don't know how practical it would be. But then, I guess you didn't ASK about practical [the 289 being a short-stroke motor and therefore NOT a torquemonster is what brings this to mind], so that'd be entirely up to you, as it well should be.
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