Building an All-Aluminum, Fuel Injected FE Ford (with a Carroll Shelby Block!)

In the '60s and '70s, the FE was Ford's designated racing engine. It won races in NASCAR, LeMans and drag racing, and we're building an updated, all-aluminum FE with electronic fuel injection and a sweet Borla Induction stack injection setup. This FE is machined, assembled and dyno'ed by Prestige Motorsports in Concord, NC, and it has to be the ultimate engine for any Cobra or GT40 replica build.

We're constantly uploading great new videos. Please subscribe so you won't miss out!

MORE INTERNET GOODNESS:

[davidtaylor]

I’m a Chevy guy but when it comes to the fe engines you have to give your respects one of the greatest engines ford put out

[damenbrazen]

Whoever is shooting, directing and editing these Horsepower Monster videos deserves a lot of praise. Little to no obnoxious heavy metal music, great lighting, interesting and illuminating tight shots, excellent narration, and great editing choices. Watching the tech struggle with hand fitting piston rings before shaking his head and giving up, then using expanding pliers, made me laugh for a good minute. Great job.

[TurboJoe]

I put one of these in my ERA Cobra when I built it in 2003.
All aluminum Shelby block & aluminum Shelby ported heads with a stroker crank (468 cid) and Crower 300+ degree solid lifter cam plus dual 600 CFM Holleys on a Tunnel Wedge intake.
The Cobra weighs 2, 300 lbs and makes 600+ HP.
Have to be wearing Depends when the 2nd Holley opens up on the progressive linkage!!
😲.... 🤯
😁

[LimitedGunnerGM]

It would be awesome to see the dollar amounts flash across the screen as each part is added.

[Christuffrz]

You guys are choking this thing out! With this combo you could easily push 800+ HP. Give her some lift and induction, this baby would spin!!

[CWO-uscg]

I’m 68, went to Ford tech training program during H.S. in Los Angeles 69-71. Always been a fan of the FE. This looks like a great build and should be in a 64 F100.

[tomnekuda]

I've put together a few Ford 427's in my life but looking at this engine block, crank, name it and I feel like I was working with junk compared to this. The ones I build were side-oilers and were top-of-the-heap in their day.

[JeromyBranch]

I love that intake and capstan throttle. I remember the old Indycar 289's with the Webers bolted directly to the heads (Bobby Unser won in 68 using this). This engine is beautiful just like that. Awesome build!

[lars]

What a great FE engine build. Not over the top, just a sane representation of an engine from yesteryear. I like the square bore to stroke ratio.

[NBFaded]

The first engine I helped work on was a 390 FE. My father is a huge fan of Ford and taught me very early on. He has had a few 390's. Today he still has a 410 FE which was a Mercury engine with a Comp cam and a 4 barrel Edelbrock carburetor.

[tomnekuda]

Man, if I could just touch that engine, I'd never wash my hands again!!! That thing's a work of art. I've built (3) side-oilers in 427 configuration but they were nothing like this thing! Love that "Weber look-alike" injection built a Chevy with 42 DCOE's years ago and when you whacked open those side-drafts that engine would just sound. Guys would pull me over just to look at that cross-ram intake. Listening to them was better than

[jakemyler]

I don't see how this channel doesn't have 500, 000+ sub. Outstanding video quality and content!

[kencohagen]

When I was 8n High School our shop built 454’s, a 427 block with 428 crank and tunnel port heads. They were for a local dirt track racer and those motors kicked butt all season long!

[willyphast]

nice to see that ford fe still getting some respect. thanks for this one fellaz, ,

[robertclymer]

Great video. I was drooling thinking of this motor in my 67 Mustang instead of the mild built 460. Maybe if I hit the someday. Cheers from Motown.

[cutty-mgkf]

I love the attention to detail on this engine build good work Prestige!

[erniecamp]

Oh how I would love to have that baby in a Ford GT 40. Yah, blue with white strips -American racing colors!

[gearhead]

For an old dinosaur they were not only powerful they took a ton of abuse even in their stock form from the factory. all 10:1+ compression versions made good power for their era. Seen many sit on rev limiter or near for minutes at a time and keep on a running. You look at gm's modern Ls there's similarities that a builder can't deny.

[rickycollins]

Good statement about the head studs or any stud screwed into the block. So many builders try to torque them in and find out the hard way when a crack is found in the area of the stud.

[scottlambeth]

Only one thing I would have done different. I would have used a Cleveland intake manifold adapter. There's a much larger selection of manifold choices for Clevelands including a tunnel ram like you used, AND if you ever needed to take the intake back off you wouldn't need to disassemble part of the valve train.