Show us your MEL

In the short time i've been on there i seem to recall seeing just about everything but a MEL motor thread. so whos got a MEL motor in there hot rod? lets see em!

 

Heres is our Mel-founder of The Race of Gentleman-and our hero!!!

 

I started a MEL Lovers social group on here. Not a whole lot going on yet, but I'm putting one in my '54 RanchWagon with 6 Rochesters.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/group.php?groupid=809

 

Mercury,Edsel,Lincoin.

 

I don't own one yet, but a 430 Super Marauder is on my bucket list. Here is a pic of one I snapped at BTTF's a few years ago.

 

Dammit... you beat me to it. Same MEL, different shot.

 

Here's the E-475 we put in our Model A a few years back.

 

The most bad-assedness MEL engine that I know of...our own "Beep".

You put up the pics if ya want.

http://cacklefest.com/Perrenot.shtml

 

Just picked up a (supposedly) running engine and tranny from a driving Lincoln, 430. Going in my '62 Unibody short bed.

SPark

 

'62 Unibody with a 430 MEL? F'in awesome!!

I'm Melissa, but my friends call me Mel...haha. One day I might find me a MEL, and maybe a sweet little Merc pickup to put it in. It's on the bucket list.

I do run a FE in my F100. LOVE these engines.

 

Should be a short thread....
Only owned one of these, and it scattered

 

Funny you say that Y-blokkah, every y block Ive had has failed miserably. I cant wait to get some fire in my 430


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Mine was just dropped off at the machine shop. Hopefully it will be done, and in a car by spring.

 

I wish. That's gunna be sweet!

 

Ooooooh!!!

 

OMG, I finally found something on these engines where people say good things about these engines. I think they are very missunderstood. I have a 58 ParkLane with a 430 in her. She runs quiet, smooth and will pick up the front tire (just a little) when I torque her up.

 

I don't have a picture of it, but a MEL powered dragster won the NHRA nationals in '59. The Singer-Miller special. Miller being none other than Karol Miller of Bonneville fame. I have seen some references to it on the HAMB. Thanks for starting this thread. Those are realy cool motors and strong too. I had a'62 Continental that would just roast the tires, which is incredible for a car that heavy with like a2.90 gear. And it was a two barrel at that.

 

here's one

 

My favorite Mel:

 

Here are some shots of the 430 for my son's T pickup. I have gotten a few odds and ends for it over the years, but I'm losing steam. I think it may be too wide and tall for the little T. And it has been a real pain to find someone local who knows anything about them. Any good rebuilders out there?

 

That's Sweet, don't give up on that one.Or if you do contact me I got lot's to trade