Very pleased with my first 460 buils

Greg_P wrote:Interesting,I have heard exactly the opposite. That the rods tend to pull apart in the middle of the beam. Seen plenty of pics of that as well.

Greg

Like I said it only has 10-12 passes on the motor. The rods have been worked a little. The stress riser is gone and they have been shot peened. But this is my first 460 and me and my dad put it together. I love the fact it makes the power it does with stock heads.

Yeah it's definitely running good.

MY bro and I put together a .030 over 460 with similarly worked D0VE's, and also worked factory rods. It's about 10:1 on the compression with a hyd flat tappet cam and a Stealth intake. It runs really good for what it is......there is definitely some power hiding in that old Ford iron.
But I did tell my bro to keep it under 6000 RPM. Just in case....

Greg

Greg_P wrote:Yeah it's definitely running good.

MY bro and I put together a .030 over 460 with similarly worked D0VE's, and also worked factory rods. It's about 10:1 on the compression with a hyd flat tappet cam and a Stealth intake. It runs really good for what it is......there is definitely some power hiding in that old Ford iron.
But I did tell my bro to keep it under 6000 RPM. Just in case....

Greg

If the motor holds up this year next winter it has to come out to go in the other car. At that time I will put the crower rods we have for it. Then I should be good to go and may spray it a little.

I've seen the stock rods last for a long time...... Its just hit and miss sometimes.

3400@122 should be around 481hp