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Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: 84 Fila on November 01, 2006, 06:05:22 PM
Anyone catch news of this?
http://www.fordracingparts.com/parts/part_details.asp?PartKeyField=9085 (http://"http://www.fordracingparts.com/parts/part_details.asp?PartKeyField=9085")
Sounds like a good starting point if I decide to build a new motor for the Fila
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: stuntmannick on November 01, 2006, 08:14:03 PM
This is the "hurricane" engine they've been working on right?
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: JeremyB on November 01, 2006, 08:48:21 PM
No, it's an overpriced 302 block.
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: Ifixyawata on November 01, 2006, 10:44:10 PM
Anyone remember when Summit Racing was selling bare 5.0 blocks for $300 - $400?
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: 84 Fila on November 01, 2006, 10:46:07 PM
They still are, at least in the catalog I have.
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: Ifixyawata on November 01, 2006, 11:42:16 PM
Meh.

They're $500 now.  Almost double the price they used to be, if my memory doesn't fail me.  shiznit, I forgot to check and see if they were roller blocks... probably so.  You could spend as much as almost $5k for a bare race block.  Yuck.
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: Beau on November 01, 2006, 11:47:33 PM
Quote from: Ifixyawata;111199
I forgot to check and see if they were roller blocks...

They are roller blocks
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: Ifixyawata on November 01, 2006, 11:53:07 PM
Quote from: FordTruckFreeek;111201
They are roller blocks
I realized that when the description said "some of the last 5.0's produced".  Hell, at that price it's probably cheaper than getting an old non-roller 'converted' over to roller with the price of machining work that would be neccessary.
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: CougarCoupe88 on November 02, 2006, 01:17:22 AM
it doesnt ever seem to be released last i heard they pushed the dates of release to next year. i dont know though i dont really keep up on it.

it's like the boss block saposedly and starts off where the last 302 block they made stoped
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: shame302 on November 02, 2006, 07:43:03 PM
hurricane is the knickname of the newer big displacement modulars....
 
those 302 blocks are not the production blocks, these are 4 bolt mains....i assume they are some derivative of the 302 sportsman blocks. if i was building a 302 id pick up a sportsman 302. basically a beefy version of the production 302.
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: nirvanagod on November 02, 2006, 09:34:08 PM
But 4 bolt mains on only 3 of the mains? Isn't that kinda counter-intuitive?
Title: Fords new "Boss" Block
Post by: TurboCoupe50 on November 02, 2006, 10:04:49 PM
Quote from: Ifixyawata;111189
Anyone remember when Summit Racing was selling bare 5.0 blocks for $300 - $400?

They started out at $249... And thats fully machined..

Anybody notice that new block is capable of a 4.125 bore???? Stick a 347 crank in it, and that my freinds is 363cu in of BOSS motor... Trust me they'll sell. The Man-O-War block that is very similar is $2300...

BTW many of the HI-PO engines of days gone by just used four bolt mains on 2, 3 & 4...