Ford Racing has taken its Boss Block to the max with the biggest small block Windsor crate engine ever – the Z460. With 575 horsepower and 575 Lb. Ft. of torque, Z460 packs a pump gas fueled punch that works well on the street and on the track.
The foundation of Z460 is the legendary Ford Racing Boss block topped off with high port/high flow Z-Heads. Premium components from the best aftermarket companies are used throughout the engine, like a SCAT® forged steel crankshaft, SCAT® forged H-beam connecting rods, forged Mahle® pistons and Clevite® bearings. And every Ford Racing Z460 engine is hand assembled in the U.S. with performance clearances.
Cylinder Heads: Ford Racing M-6049-Z304DA Aluminum “Z” Cylinder Heads
Valve size (in): 2.02 intake 1.60 exhaust
Compression ratio: 10.0:1 (nominal)
Rocker arms : Ford Racing M-6564-F351 Roller Rocker arms
Rocker arm ratio: 1.65:1
Vibration Damper – Ford Racing M-6316-D302 SFI Approved
Valve Covers: Ford Racing cast aluminum – silver painted finish
Oil Pan: Steel with deep front (9 quart) or rear sump (7quart) pan with louvered windage tray and crankshaft scraper (M-6675-FT351 front sump or M-6675-DRS351 rear sump))
Water pump: Ford Racing M-8501-G351 included – long type – standard rotation
Includes Ford Racing M-9439-A50 intake manifold gaskets
Distributor: not included. Steel distributor gear required.
Required fuel: Premium Unleaded
Ignition timing: 32° at 4,000 RPM
Maximum recommended rpm: 5,600 RPM
Balanced: Internal – use neutral balance flywheel
Recommended intake: Edelbrock PN 2924 Super Victor (not included)
New block, oil and water pump, performance oil pan and high-performance harmonic balancer
Engine power ratings achieved with Edelbrock® Super Victor intake, Holley® 850 CFM carburetor, long tube headers.
Depending on your application, a different timing cover, water pump, performance oil pan and pickup may be required. Call the Ford Racing Techline at (800) FORD788 for more information.
… headers has shown 575 hp and 575 ft-lbs of torque, stump pulling big-block level grunt from a small block package. Part number M-6007-Z460FRT is available now as a rear sump or order M-6007-Z460FFT for a front sump.
Is this the best Ford at SEMA? SEMA gave the Ford Design award to Steve Strope’s ’65 Mustang rally car. “I wanted to imagine what if Martini Racing was involved with Ford,” said Steve at the press conference at SEMA 2012. This re-imagined race car was introduced at SEMA 2012.
You can win Project Restoration Rollout at SEMA 2012! You have to register by Saturday, November 3, 2012 at Craftsman.com to win. You can also go to the site to watch the tutorial videos that followed the build of the Mustang. New videos stop when the contest does on Saturday.
Go to Craftsman.com and sign up for the Craftsman Club to register.
Craftsman Club members can enter the sweepstake in these ways:
1 entry by opting into the sweepstakes
1 entry by answering the trivia question after watching each video – for a total of 24 entries
5 bonus entries for answering all trivia questions correctly
Up to 10 entries for craftsman.com purchase during this time of the sweepstakes.
Members also get entries just for watching the videos!
We have a couple of debuts’ this week and a couple of Birthdays.
First up on Sept. 23 in 1969 the iconic and now recreated Dodge Challenger.
From this:
1969 Challenger
And this:
The Iconic General Lee
To this:
The 2012 version.
Virgil Exner was born on the 24th of Sept in 1909. Who was “Ex”? A car designer. Oh…ok…of what? Just a couple of designs, like all of these:
Studebaker Champion
Studebaker Starlight
Chrysler C-200
Chrysler 300 letter series
Chrysler 300 non-letter series
Chrysler New Yorker
Imperial 1955-1961
Chrysler Diablo Concept with Ghia
Plymouth Savoy
Plymouth Belvedere
Plymouth Fury
Plymouth Suburban
Plymouth Valiant
Dodge Coronet
Dodge Firearrow Concept
Desoto 1961
Desoto Adventurer
Bugatti 1965 concept with Ghia
Mercer-Cobra 1965 concept
Duesenberg 1966 prototype with Ghia
Stutz Blackhawk
Bill France was born on the 26th in 1909 in our nations capital. Mr. France was an American race car driver. He is best known for co-founding and managing NASCAR, a sanctioning body of United States-based stock car racing.
The final debuts was on Sept. 26, 1967 when AMC released the Javelin.