I would like your opinion on my ‘61 Comet 2-door wagon. It’s a car that will be used for local cruise nights and Friday night street-legal drags. My question is how much horsepower would I need to get into the mid 12-second range? I see all sorts of online estimators but quite frankly, they
Want to swap a Modular or Windsor Ford engine under your hood, but aren’t sure it will fit? Well, the folks at Ford Performance are here to help you out. They put together a series of images containing the external dimensions of a few of Ford’s most common engines, including the 302/351 Windsor, 4.6L Modular,
The Ford engine family tree has a lot of branches. You’ve got the venerable Windsor small block, plus the 385-series and FE-series big block branches, along with a trio of 351 engines—the 351 Windsor, Cleveland, and Modified. We’re now into the overhead-cam Modular motors, which advanced the Ford V8 into the 21st century. So, we thought
Engines are often identified by their displacement, like the ubiquitous Chevy 350, Mopar 440, or Ford Five-Oh. But displacement alone isn’t always the best differentiator, and nowhere is that more evident than with the Ford 351 engines. Sure, ‘351’ refers to the engine size, but there were essentially three major versions of the Ford 351—the
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