And for about the same price as rebuilding it to 289 or 302, you can stroke
it to 347. Nice set of aluminum heads, a nice aluminum intake, an edelbrock
650 cfm carb. Oh, yeah, build it from a roller cam 5.0 block and get a nice
325 streetable horsepower for less than it costs to rebuild a 1380 spridget
engine. Weight savings from aluminum head, intake, and headers, and it will
probably be lighter in the front than the Healey 4 cylinder. I built mine
from a junk yard Lincoln Town Car, with parts off ebay, total including
machine work was under $2000.
David R.
----- Original Message -----
From: "conan" <conan@intrex.net>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Big Healey question
> per Brad...
>>>The only way I would go SBF would be a 289, which are plenty scarce, and
>>>expensive to build.
>
> I think the only real difference between a Ford 289 and a 302 was the
> crankshaft. Hint... ;-)
> Ed in NC
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