1946 Ford Coupe project

[willida]

496 bbc... Nice.
Is it a new one or a punched out 454? You can make some serious power out of those things, especially if you're going the forced induction route. they're still pretty reliable as long as you don't loose your head when designing and building them. I've known people with 1000-1100HP 496s that could still drive them on the street.

I started out with a 454.

So far, the block has been hone lined, and bored 50 over.

Will bore to final 60 over when I get the pistons and rods.


I bought a new Linatti crank.

The plan is to go mild and pump gas friendly. The goal is to have it streetable, with limited strip time.

The guy doing the machine work has dropped the ball and hasn't touched it in years. Wasn't an issue (until now) as I was working on the chassis.

Now that the chassis is getting very close to being finished, I need the motor for the next phase of the build.

Never had a Big Block in a car, all small blocks, I've been told once you go big block, you won't mess with a small block anymore.

The plan for the build is to have a super straight black stock appearing body, with a pro stock style chassis and a ground pounder motor.

Interior is going to be red leather with red carpet, gloss black cage and dash with white face Auto Meter comp gauges.

Thought about going fuel injected, but will need to learn more on that. So for now, it will be a 850 holley on a edelbrock airgap manifold, 3.5 inch full length exhaust.

I can picture it in my head, and hear it in my mind, just need to get it done

[Jason]

Sounds like it is going to be built similar to the motor I was referencing. The nice thing about the 496 is the large TQ numbers that follow with it.