Re: 1960 F600 motor swap

Posted by steve on March 30, 2006 at 11:07:39 from (199.224.110.70):

In Reply to: 1960 F600 motor swap posted by JBF203 on March 23, 2006 at 19:18:06:

You will probally run into problems with the 330 flywheel as mentioned in another followup. The 428 and mercury 410 are the only external balanced FE car motors. I'm not sure about the 330, but I think it was internal balance. We have swapped many 390's (same mounting as a 428 but is internal balanced) into '53 thru 60's ford F250's thru F750's. If you use a 391 Truck engine's flywheel,clutch, and bell housing along with front mount this is very simple. This also gets you a big hefty 13" clutch. The 391 flywheel needs to be zero balanced (very easy for any engine shop, involves grinding off a cast-in weight) to match a car 390 (internally balanced) for this to work. You may also be able to have the machine shop balance the 391 flywheel to match the original external balanced 428 flywheel. The front mount can be bolted to the 428/390 car timing cover with longer high strenght bolts and some heavy wall tubing for spacers. With the correct lenght spacers you can mount this engine in the original frame mounts as the 292. One tip, make sure you get a flywheel and bellhousing that match. The early 330 belhousing will bolt to the block the same as a 391 bell, but the starter hole is in a different location because the 391 has a bigger flywheel dia. This is all pretty easy to do if you get the right parts and get the balancing correct.

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