Guest Anonymous Posted April 18, 2000 Share Posted April 18, 2000 My dad and I stopped by Mike Kelly's on Sunday to take a look at Mike's Z. Guys, it is AWESOME. Mike's car is very, very professionally done! Everything looks as if it were made that way. Well, on to a few questions. We started talking about a Ford 5.0 conversion. On the way home my dad and I were talking about the various stroker kits available for the 302 Ford and I was telling him that the biggest one I could find stretched it out to a 347. He suggested just going with a built 351, or possibly a stroked 351. Does anyone out there know the weight comparison between a 302 and 351? I know the 351 has ~1" taller deck height, how does the physical deminsions of the 351 compare to a small block Chevy? There are two things that really attract me to doing a Ford conversion 1-) I have always been a Ford person, and 2-) I know the SBF is already lighter than the SBC. I realize that the SBC would be cheaper to build but after looking through some of the performance catalogs I really don't think it will be that big of a difference. Thanks in advance for your responses. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Locutus Posted April 18, 2000 Share Posted April 18, 2000 Oh trust me, its a big difference in price. But money aside, the 351W isn't much bigger, its still a small block motor, lots of power, if you want to do ford I would go with the 351. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Adkins Posted April 19, 2000 Share Posted April 19, 2000 Here is a link to a site with a list of engine weights: http://www.team.net/sol/tech/engine.html It says a 351W is about 510 lbs while the 289-302 is about 460. The SBC is about 575. Hope this helps, John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted April 19, 2000 Share Posted April 19, 2000 A slightly more updated version of that list is available at Dave Williams' home page. URL is: http://home1.gte.net/42/engfyi.htm BTW, Dave managed to squeeze 430 cubes out of a 351 block! Dubbed it "Windzilla". The 351W also has larger main bearings as well. There maybe some high RPM oiling details to attend to. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted April 20, 2000 Share Posted April 20, 2000 The info on those pages doesn't properly respresent weights, since nothing is known about how "dressed" the engines are. Also, most of the figures weren't verified by the author. I do as much weighing as possible in the shop. Here are some of the results: http://web.wt.net/~tfair/mustang/weights.html As for dimensions, the 351W deck height is 9.5" (9.48" for '69-'70 blocks), while a 302 is only 8.206". ------------------ Michael Sen-Roy Houston Performance 281-893-6080 ------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted April 21, 2000 Share Posted April 21, 2000 Some have details about dressing or wet/dry weights that's why there's literally 200 footnotes. You do raise a good point and I appreciate the link you gave. Didn't realize Terry's page was still up. Since we're throwing our "weight" around. Here's another listing of individual parts weights (mostly from Ford Mustang): http://www.iaw.com/~aubertin/88mgt/weights/weights.htm Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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