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    557 Ford build

    Hi i will be puting together a 557 ford for a friend. it will be in his Rochell craft and just wondering about a good hydraulic cam for it. he realy dosent need to run above 5500 rpm the pump is a jucuzzie YJ i think he is gona go look at some cobra jet heads. i am just trying to get him a honest 500 HP

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ID:	211475i sure would like my friend to buy a set of these Boss heads there made to fit the stock 429/460 wedge block. web site
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    to bad you were not doing an old FE i still have some parts kicking around,that i will be selling soon. good luck with the build,have to see whats left in the parts room, we did have some 460/429 stuff to,but been many years since we played with the big blocks......alby

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    i did a 460 .060 over once . crane special purpose number 3 was awesome in mine. lift was .699 i think. i wish i had a bbf in my boat

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    ya i have an olds right now and it's my budy boat i am building the ford for but he is gona give me a BBF. He is going with stock head or some cobra jet heads the block is bored 80 over 4.440 and the crank is 4.5 stroke to make 557 CI

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    sweet!

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    Problem with the 557 is that with the needed dish to make less than 10 to 1 compression, there is not enough room for the required rod length. With cash anything is possible, but I sense that this is a budget deal. Might want to check into this before going any farther. TIMINATOR

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    paw has a huge ford kit

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    Well He got the kit a while back and it uses a 6.700 rod and a set of probe dish pistons if i remember it use's BBC rod bearings

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    C/R depends on the dish size and head CCs. TIMINATOR

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    go with Kaase P51 head. Best out of the box head.
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    ya i wish he would buy a set of those heads but he wont spend that much on the heads so what ya gona do still waiting to see if he brought the rods over to the machine shop to have the pin end honed a bit they where to tight for my likeing the pin was not realy free on the floating rods i told him to get them so they had 3/4 of a thousands clearance

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    There really is no reason to go that big in cubes if you didnt plan to get heads the can feed it. It will be very asthmatic IMHO. I would have saved on the stroker and got a great set of heads and made a proper cam choice.
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    Seriously and with some respect ,put the whole lot in the scrap bin and start again with a BBC .... More of everything with less $ and way more class. Even over here in Australia where everything is expensive we only use ford anything for people movers or trucks. Every time some one gets the idea of a hot rod ford it usually blows up when ya lean on it.

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    The only reason to run BBC is cost. The BBF is superior in strength as far as design. I have seen far to many in boats, drag cars, and pull truck applications to warrant anything different. Factory block, rods, crank can handle 750 NA horsepower under serious torture for life... been there, done that. No BBC can ever use factory parts and make the same claim. We had P51 heads and .030" pistons to match them on an otherwise factory 460 rotating assembly make over 700hp. How many head, cam, intake swaps have you seen where a BBC can do this?

    Also, with all do respect, MORE CLASS??? What does that even mean? Whats not classy about being different? BBC are like fleas, every dogs got em'!
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