Technical traditional look for your 302/351

I'm thinking that black and gold may work with my color scheme

 

Ford Red

 

My 289 was painted red/orange Glyptal in and out, with black wrinkle powered by Ford valve covers and cheap open element air cleaner. Looked pretty good I thought. Then I jacked it up with gold Moroso valve covers and air cleaner. What can I say, it was the '80s.

 

A friend cast this up years ago for a 351W using a truck EFI lower manfold.

 

Not completely traditional as I had to use an explorer short water pump, but this may inspire you.

 

Or just put the distributor in the back.

 

My '65 Galaxie was all blue. My '68 Mustang had a boss in it and it was Turquoise. Not original colors but not the original motor for the '68 so my guess is that the guy who stuffed it in there liked turquoise. LOL



here's the deal if we are talking restoration the original colors for the engine are important, if we are talking dressed hot rod we need to think about what was done to hot rods. They got painted chromed and polished, or they didn't get much at all. it just depended on who was building it and what their taste was.

 

This would be dead sexy. Now I can finally put those stamped "Powered by Ford" valve covers to use.

 

An orange 351 Cleveland just wouldn't look right.

I've got a set of these in the attic. Not sure what year they came out.

 

That's not the Cleveland, the Cleveland is for the '67, its a 289.

 

Here ya go Denny- Not tradiotinal but it is a BOSS 302 and a kick in the pants

 

Late 50s to '65, all Ford long blocks were black with color-coded valve covers and air cleaners. The Ford 'corporate blue' showed up in '66 and hung around until about '80 or 81....

 

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I like the cal custom valve covers.


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This is on a 260 SBF.... basically a baby 289/302.


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I acquired an early 221/260 in a trade
kept it incase I wanted to use a 302 in one of my projects
It has the timing cover with the oil fill tube/breather and a generator and down draft tube on the intake
this would work with some no hole finned covers and definitely have the 'pre 64' look

 

Now that's good looking... my favorite block color, too. Gary

 

A 221 is a Completely Different Beast.
Thinner wall casting, so it can't be bored.
Essentially a Boat Anchor!
I ditched my '62 221, in favor of a '63 289.
Bone Stock Colors.

 

yes
I just wanted to keep the timing cover with the fill tube and the gen mounting to disguise a 289/302
some later blocks will need an oil return drilled for the tube to work

 

The reason the '62-63 SBF oil-fill timing cover disappeared is it does a very poor job of evacuating the crankcase. Lots of condensation build-up inside the motor (they were famous for rotting the dipstick in half) and under the valve covers. If you live in a low-humidity area it may work for you, in a high humidity area, not so much....

I've never seen one with a down-draft tube; all I've seen had a PVC valve mounted to the intake (which is very hard to find these days....).

The big issue with the 351W is there's almost no 'vintage' intakes available. The only multicarb units I'm aware of is the 2-4V Edelbrock (forcing you to use their carbs because Holleys won't fit) and the Price Motorsport 2-4V lo-riser (which accepts Holleys) but is designed primarily for kit cobra applications (which is why it's a lo-rise; to fit under those low hoods). If you have deep pockets, you can get a 4-Weber set-up. There's adaptors to use 289-302 intakes on them, but you need to mod the distributor and it still doesn't look 'right'...