1976 Ford Gran Torino 0-60mph (Fordor, stock)

My Bicentennial Torino has a Motorcraft 2150 (2bbl) feeding a 400 Cleveland to a C6, ending at a nine-inch out back. Run was downhill somewhat, but altitude was around 5,900ft. It does it with about ten seconds on the clock, as there is a second or so of wheelspin. Curb weight is just shy of 4300lbs.
This run was happily performed on the fourth of July, 2011.

[FordMaverickFanatic]

@jmkpns Also forgot to say, the 400 can stand up to a 460 when built right because it is a square motor, meaning it has a 4" stroke and 4" Bore, giving it a high amount of torque at a relatively low rpm, I've seen some builds on them with them making like 478 ft-lbs with the stock heads...

[FordMaverickFanatic]

@jmkpns The 400 has a different deck height and is wider, heads, cams and a lot of other parts are interchangable, the rotating assembly (crank, and rods) are different though, as well as the intake manifold

[CorvusCasull]

Interesting. Some of that is new to me. I did forget to mention one thing I knew of - the intake manifold. That I did know was different but I'd never heard that the deck height was different or the block was physically wider.

[CorvusCasull]

I don't disagree, but your comparison is like a PT boat set against a two man fishing boat. You must have missed that this is a 1976 (smog) 400 Cleveland with the timing retarded at least five degrees, running a small CFM two pot, then pushing 4200lbs at 6, 000ft of altitude.
This is also a four door Torino, which is different from the coupe most are familiar with; the wheelbase is 4" longer and the gears are shorter too. I think it did fairly well for an original 35 year old machine.

[NORELYSRODRIGUEZ-ko]

A mi Ford gran Torino estoy armando un V8 351 sobre Rolón, y le coloque un sigueñal de Ford 400 osa un stroquer ...y eso es una maravilla motor de menos pesos y con el torque de un motor 400.. y se le coloca una transmisión aod averdrive ....etc ...esos motores 400, 460 solo le queda nada más una sola transmisión c6 y esa tipo de trasmisión tiene solamente 3 cambios...y la envés la overdrive tiene 4 velocidades

[CorvusCasull]

Dead on there! I find it odd that the 400 has a longer stroke than the 300-6 which was designed as a workhorse engine for trucks! As you said, and saw in my video above: it makes a lot of torque way low down, but doesn't have a lot of giddyup! Well, stock anyway. I'd love to tear this one down and turn it into a real stump puller... someday.

[FordMaverickFanatic]

@CorvusCasull Yeah, that explains the wider manifold, and forgot to say nice car btw lol

[FordMaverickFanatic]

@CorvusCasull Lol, my 78' truck has a '75 400M from a car which I'd like to get a performer 400 intake, 4 bbl, and longtube headers for. These motors pump out about 300 ft-lbs from the factory. And the 300 I-6 has high performance potential too, I've seen one with 110, 000 miles with an offenhauser 4 bbl intake and a blow-through turbo setup run high 10's in a Maverick. A lot of these old engines have lots of overlooked potential.

[CorvusCasull]

You'd be surprised how well a spreadbore four barrel can do on fuel if you keep your foot out of it. In fact I'd like to adapt a Quadrajet to this engine, which will likely throw a lot of the Ford guys into convulsions...

[stonix]

@knaxon the cars arent such fast as you think, they are very heavy and dont have over 500bhp, so about 10seconds are good.

[Thomasmen]

Sounds almost exactly like my sisters 78 Bird with its 351M

[CorvusCasull]

They both share the same block, yes. The only thing that separates the 400 Cleveland and the 351M are the con-rods and crank. (There could also be other little differences that I don't know of or don't remember)
Do they stand up to a 460? You should be more specific so I don't end up writing three paragraphs.

[jmkpns]

Isn't the Cleveland 400 and 351 both the same block? Do they stand up to a 460?

[knaxon]

i thought these things were insanely fast? but that acceleration is like equal to a hyundai accent.