Personally blown away by what an 1 inch spacer will do. Until now never would I think a spacer would help in horsepower and torque like it did..pays to have engine Dyno by great engine builders..👍

The builder of the 427sb did an excellent job. 503hp/530 ft-lb will definitely melt some pavement! And that Buick... be still my chrome plated heart! 😍

watching Nick is like going back in time with my dad. thank you so much nick. makes me cry:)

@NicksGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Here’s to all the dads. Thanks.

Dang today is the start my 67th year of birth and to see my fathers old 53 buick (his was black) sends me back to my youth.. The rope across the back of the front seat, for those guys in the back, no seat belts BIG room in the back. He kept that old car until 1960 when he bought a Ford station wagon, (6 kids by then).. ohhhh white walls too! What a nice start to my day.. thanks Nick... My father would have gotten a kick outta this! once again I thank you for your share and carry on my friend!!

@tinkmarshino

5 жыл бұрын

@Grumpy468 Hey! thanks.. this is my first ethernet birthday well wishing... See even old dogs get to have new tricks!! Thanks again!

351 is a 9-5 deck and a 302 is a 8-2 deck so the 351 is a lot taller and wider than the 302 so unfortunately it's not usually a direct swap like people usually think it would be

@nickpanaritis4122

5 жыл бұрын

jason. I told my client. The 351 has taller decks.

Nick, you won't believe what I recently bought, a 1974 Dodge W100 with a ford 428CJ and C6 trans, 205 transfer case. I 'm going to put the 428 in my 69 F250 High Boy and I'm building a 413 and 727 for the 74 Dodge, good times. Great video as always, keep it up and Thank you.

I've gotta say, I'm not a Ford or Mopar guy. I've always been Chevy. This little Ford impressed me tremendously! This is why I love love channels like this. Makes me realize that there is alot more out there that can make it happen! Good on ya Nick!!

@glennsampano7193

2 жыл бұрын

How do I send an email to Nick or get his phone number it's very important to me as I am very ill and need to speak to him

@jerryparks6123

Жыл бұрын

427 little Ford ?

All V8's sounds good, but I grew up with Fords all my life because my dad was with Ford for 33 years. Even my boat had a Ford V8 351. I love this channel.

@victorbitter583

5 жыл бұрын

Was the boat motor in backwards?

@danielb2145

5 жыл бұрын

@@victorbitter583 no, it's a 2 stage Hamilton jet.

@JohnnyRebKy

4 жыл бұрын

Dil Lee My dad worked at GM for 42 years. Corvette Assembly plant. I was around Chevys my whole life. The last several years they have turned me into Ford fans lol. Now I only own Fords while dad is constantly having his new GM suv taken in for problems. It really gets his goat that I haven’t turned a bolt on a Ford in 5 years that I’ve owned them 😎. His last 2 GMs have been a giant headache. Some people can never get past their bias even if it means walking lol 😂

@jquest43

4 жыл бұрын

@@danielb2145 351 what?? Cleveland?

@GearheadExplorer85

4 жыл бұрын

There is a new acronym for GM …."Giant Migrane" XD

I am an F-15 Eagle engine technician and I wear my Nick's Garage hat proudly at work every day! With that, my hat is off to you! I love classic Mopar muscle cars!

@nickpanaritis4122

5 жыл бұрын

Kevin. Thank you Kevin.

@littlejpl

4 жыл бұрын

F-15 Eagles still running Pratt-Witney engines? After working Pratt's and then going to GE-110's You never want to work Pratt's again lol.

@littlejpl

4 жыл бұрын

Kind of like working in a Ford Engine bay and then go to Chrysler. You never want to work on a Ford again lol. Who in their wright mind builds shock towers the size of the Empire State building in the middle of and engine bay and THEN!! surrounded the back of an engine with a fire wall so you can't even get to half of the back of the engine pray tell? FORD!!

I love how thorough you are with everything Nick. Doesn't matter whether it's Gm, Plymouth, Ford, AMC ECT, you are the keeper of a great era of machines and are meticulous in getting everything right. If ever I wanted someone to build my dream car you would be my choice by far. Your expertise is amazing. How you can look at a motor or car and squeeze the absolute best it can be. Cheers mate 😊

Minimum cfm calculation is simple (max rpm X engine cu.in.)÷ 3456= C.F.M. for any engine. Under carbing gives quicker hole shot where over carbing will give you a better top end pull.😎

We bought a 54 Buick Special new. It had the 264 cu in v8 with 139 hp. The trans was the old small 3 speed manual with the converted selector shift. The rear was a torque tube with lever shocks. To start, the carb had a switch on the the throttle that retracted by vacuum once the engine started. Ours had a heater core with hoses and switch in the back seat.

That 427 small block would feel at home in the A/C Cobra.

@nickpanaritis4122

5 жыл бұрын

Super. Very true.

@GlassTopRX7

5 жыл бұрын

Aftermarket aluminum 427 FE.

Nick is like a kid in a candy store when he's working in the Dyno room! Also, that old Buick is beautiful! Thanks for sharing !

Working on cars like this is my dream job. Life would be good. These cars are like art, time capsules on wheels.

that ford 427 is sweet,and I am a 100% Mopar guy,when I was 20 and living outside of Boston,my landlady had a ford galaxy XL 500 that had a 427,the car had the NHRA on the side,and when see would start the car the house shook,I am not sure of the year of the car,and it had line locks,thanx Dr. Nick,my Monday is now better.

@ragimundvonwallat8961

4 жыл бұрын

its not a real BB FE 427 its a stroked windsor sb

There is available adjustable pushrods. Far from being a crappy solution, they are actually pretty good. Light and strong, not too expensive and made of chromoly I think. A mechanic friend of mine many moons ago when we were both apprentices built a Ford 351 and couldn't afford adjustable rocker gear so he bought these pushrods and ran a solid lifter camshaft. They worked great. 20 years after that I had an issue with a 318 with 360 J heads and tried to find some of this type of pushrod since I remembered that 351 build all those years earlier and they were easy to find.The ones I used were Mopar Performance. I was astonished at how light they were.

The video was excellent as always. What also caught my attention was the sound track. Really had a 70's Pink Floyd vibe to it. Muscle Cars and Pink Floyd. Perfect.

Couple of more weeks and I'm going to show up at Nick's garage with my 41 Willys and see what he thinks of it and can't wait to see what he thinks of what's underneath the hood

@NicksGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Wow. Can’t wait.

@79huddy

5 жыл бұрын

My buddies dad has a boss 302 in his willys with an old 4 speed from a Montego used to pull the wheels up everytime we grabbed second at the silver lake sand drags smoked everything but a banshi on nitro methanol

@serget2168

5 жыл бұрын

If you want to get a little glimpse of it check it out on my Twitter page serge2491 it's the picture of it

Should have just built that 302 small block. Nick looks like hes having a blast playing with those Fords!

My friend Bob Cross lost his life after spending Fifteen Years building a Cobra kit car that looked identical to the one in your shop. Bob lined up out front on the road and took off in first gear then hit second the car launched to the right went off the road and hit a corner chain link fence posted the car hit then rolled over to the left throwing another man Cliff. But Bob was belted in and the car rolled over a few two foot by two foot blocks of concrete were he suffered massive head injuries.Bob was part of GM performance division and designed the 502 grate motor among the NASCAR Racing Heads, he was a normal guy who i met and had no idea of his automotive designing skills and prominence among the Racing Industry, at his. Funeral were a ton of racers and engine builders all the top names from both NASCAR and Drag Racing World. He is sadly missed by his family and a multitude of Friends.

Need to get a custom header kit for the cobra, they allow you to build them out of plastic segments them lock them in place and ship them back and they will make a metal set in the shape you have created out of the plastic segments.

Wonderful and amazing horsepower and foot pounds of torque out of that nasty little Ford 427

Rev Up Your Engines! I had a 1941 Buick with a straight 8 compound carburetion ; it was my daily driver for about 3 years. So easy to drive anywhere.

@Omararmendariz9565

5 жыл бұрын

Any car is easy to drive in reality dude 😆.

@kennethj1956

5 жыл бұрын

@@Omararmendariz9565 without power steering or power brakes, some old cars are difficult to drive. I've owned about 250 vehicles, some were awful to drive. My 1926 Dodge brothers is really difficult.

As much as I love Mopar, it's GREAT to see the old Fords fired up! Can't wait to see more of that Boss 302! :@D

Amazing what an extra 1 inch thick base plate does! Great numbers 503 HP with 508 TQ.

@alltheboost5363

5 жыл бұрын

Would have been amazing if he had gone wide open throttle with the 830 carb. I bet it would have made more than the 750 with the spacer.

@64fairlane305

4 жыл бұрын

508? Moore like 530

@jquest43

4 жыл бұрын

530 tq

@BigEightiesNewWave

4 жыл бұрын

thanks now I don't have to watch.🤣

I remember as a kid helping my dad and brother. My dad bought i believe it was a 56 long bed pickup that was trashedb bought it from a salvage yard in Escondido California and had a 428 police interceptor built, had it blueprinted and balanced and i believe it had a 411 rear end in it at it wwas a fast son of a buck. Thanks to my dad, to this day i work on all my own vehicle's. Except for teaching me right from wrong (the hard way) i think that was the best gift he ever gave me was the ability to do my own mechanic work. Thanks dad, he passed in 1986

Great to see a Blue Oval episode good on you Nick

@drew8256

4 жыл бұрын

He had a sour look on his face. He’s definitely not a ford man.

U know what I say & I’m starting to repeat it a lot more often is, “if man can made it, man can fix it” & that’s my story & I’m sticking with it !

Custom length pushrods, you want aprox .050-.100 plunger depth on a typical factory type lifter, this is how i personally remedy this issue on non adjustable hydraulic lifter valvetrains, or in some cases 3 piece adjustable pushrods fwiw, most stock push rods leave a lot to be desired anyways, i use Smith bros pushrods personally

Cheers Nick for yet another awesome video, that 53 Buick what a ride aye!!! The Ford 427 sounded pretty sweet to Nick thanks once again till next week.

Love seeing the giant Holly just dumping fuel into the engine.

@videomaniac108

5 жыл бұрын

I thought the fuel was pumped directly from the gas tank to the tailpipe in those engines.

@mareksumguy1887

4 жыл бұрын

D.O.A. 🤣👍

I'm not a Ford guy, but that 427 sounds very happy !. what a rumble !!!!

@AnomalousOne1401

5 жыл бұрын

It may seem unusual but I know what you're talking about. If you haven't already, go watch Nick's video from late 2017 or early 2018 when he dyno'd a SBC that Nick built that is going into a 50's Olds dubbed "Bride of Frankenstein" That is a happy motor, my friend.

@briandavis35

5 жыл бұрын

Ford's 427 was so bad that's why it was out lawed in NASCAR, a bad mamma jamma.

@anteropaulino5151

5 жыл бұрын

@@briandavis35 yes all respect to the designers of that beast !!!!!

@vtwinbuilder3129

5 жыл бұрын

Brian Davis you do realize that the 427 that was outlawed is a completely different engine than this 427. About the only things they have in common is the displacement and number of cylinders. Not that this SBF 427 isn’t badass and all but a true FE 427 is the beast of which legends are built on. Especially the SOHC design, way ahead of its time.

@anteropaulino5151

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, i am aware of the different engines. i'm an old gearhead , i once owned a 72 Cutlass S with an LS7 under the hood. talk about a sweet rumble lol

Glad to see you got a sunny warm day finally

@nickpanaritis4122

5 жыл бұрын

act. It was about time

Fordapalooza! About time!

Great video Mr Nick thank you for sharing your projects with me.

65 to 67 Ford Mustangs with the 289 the alternator sits down low I would look for some brackets for that style and switch all your pulleys over to a V belt instead of a serpentine

my 399ci Windsor made 500 hp on the dyno but I was only 490 on torque and the 427ci made 530 lb/ft toque . I run a 750 holley quik fuel and 28 degrees on timing. nice , thanks Nick.

Thank you Nick.

Nick is one of the most badass Mopar engine builders in North America, and I'm sure glad that we have him here in Canada. He makes Canada look good for the best High-Performance Mopar engine builders anywhere in North America.

On my 354 Hemi I ran a Isky #444 Roller cam and Adustable push rods. I got them from Hot heads(before it was hot heads) . I was their first OZ customer years ago ha ha On the cobra, Fit the power steer with remote reservoir ,down below with the alternator on the other side . Mercedes did this in the 60's to fit their wide V8's into their cars designed initially for sixes.

Thank you.

beautiful shots, great commentaries, beautiful cars...and Nick!!! Great video like always

I'd like to see a legit big block 427 on your dyno. Love the channel.

@fenatic7484

2 жыл бұрын

Engine they tested the 2nd time after the 427 solid vs hydraulic lifters the 2 nd try sounded and made power like a nice 390 at .030 over.

Love the 427 small block Ford. Dart block with good heads and you have a lightweight and compact package with big numbers. Throw one in your Foxbody and watch it go !

Hi Nick! I had a Cobra in a few years ago for a engine rebuild (302). We put on shorty headers on backwards and custom fit to the side pipes. Still had room at the footwells. The stock fox body alt, P/S system won't fit. I think I still have pics of the set-up if ya want a look.

@nickpanaritis4122

5 жыл бұрын

I will figure it out, thanks.

These were the kinds of cars that I was lucky enough to have seen and worked on when I was a kid back in the 50s and 60s.

Most of the best mechanics & tuners I've known give love to all makers of high performance

I built a 331 ford stroker and it makes more than enough power. Especially with a 84 ranger behind it.

This show is a perfect balance of tech and cars. Thank you nick and crew. When is the tv show coming?

Nice work Nick!

"Next year every car in America will have three holes in each fender " ( a buick TV commercial from the period )

Nicks garage will make any motor a better motor, cause Nick built it

Amazing 427 Ford and Nick And Crew You Guys Are The BEST 😀👨🏼‍🔧🧰 Best Automotive Channel PERIOD 😀😊👩🏻‍💼👨🏼‍🔧

A 351 Windsor, Ontario block with 351 Cleveland, Ohio heads, 400 crank and forged 300 6 cylinder rods originated in 1971 mid-west match racing

Great channel Nick. You guys do great work. Regards from a 66 GT mustang driver in Adelaide, south Australia😊

👍 Thanks Nick

Don’t matter what brand you love. All brands have good and bad engines. it’s about what makes you happy.

427 is a magical number for engines.

Hi Nick! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, skills, experience, wisdom as well as posting all your informative videos here on KZread! Continue your excellent videos! Sincerely, Marc Wuttke

I'm starting to suspect Nick is a closet Ford fan but just doesn't want to come clean. Gotta love that Ford POWER BABY!

@brentmazur9518

5 жыл бұрын

I might be like Nick: Mopars are my favourites, but I love them all.

@funkyzero

5 жыл бұрын

@@brentmazur9518 I know, I'm just trying to get a fight out of him. I know he's a hard core Chrysler guy

the Black 69 was freaking Nice, In the Blue Cobra, I'd have run a 302 over a 351 Windsor everyday of the week. the 427 was Bad Ass, would like to see the Eleanor Car it goes in!

The "EH's" were strong in this one.

Can't wait to see the car done

Another awesome dyno video nick. Great job

the radio in the 53 buick is a very nice one. when I was in Oakland calif in the mid 60s those old buicks were everywhere. cheap and reliable. not fast or fuel efficient but they would keep running.

Really enjoy these videos. I get to thinking, watching these, that is must be so nice, to be able to go to work everyday, doing something exiting that you love to do, that's got to be huge.

@NicksGarage

5 жыл бұрын

You’re kind to say so. But it’s not all glory. Right now, Nick is hammering on the ignition of an old Honda.. just to make it limp to the scrap yard. Thanks for watching!

Love the old cars and the old car smell they have joe has some nice cars and nick as a good friend to and i can see work is picking up now that the nice weather is coming and hopefully we don.t have any bad weather .

On the cobra car, the 351 has a taller deck height. 8.2 vs 9.5. A 331 is perfect for those kit cars.

Finding Nick's shop on the street is no problem, just look for the shop with all the rubber tracks laid down on the street in front of it.

Awesome video as always thanks Nick

The 67 GTX took me back to the mid/ late 80s when my roomie had one that someone had put a 392 hemi into. Not a bad car and it often embarrassed a lot of Mustang boys in front of their girlfriends back in the day!

Thanks for another great video to make Monday better!

Joe has a beauty on his hands...history on wheels!

My FE 394 ci, .020 over that I built 30 years ago made 503 hp and 488 with a flat tappet solid and a 750 off of a 396 Chevy BB 375 hp. There are a lot of tricks to make it run. It started out as a 69 390 2V, but I had it bored .020, forged flat tops, and ARP rod bolts and a polish and peen and lightened the crank a lot and balanced it. I ported the heads and the Holley SD. I added a 1.5 spacer under the 750. 2.11 intakes and 1.6 exhausts with 2 inch primary pipes and 3.5 collectors 18 inches long. I looked at the torque wrong, it was 498 ft lbs and 503 hp and it pulls from 3200 to 6600 like magic and it will keep going to 7200. And not lay down. Idles at 1000 with 14 psig oil with a 9qt Canton deep sump with the trap door baffling and the 3/4 in Sump. I t jumps to 85 at 5500 and stays there. I wish I had put 2.19 intakes in. The heads are C4AE-G really good shape after I worked the short side and bowl. Ford knew what they were doing with the FE. My next one if I get to will be a 4.1 bore and 4.1 stroke for 433.0444 ci. I have a hyd roller from Bullet that with 2.19/1.6 valves should do close to 600 ft lbs and 700 hp according to pipemax. At 63, I need to get with it!

Yes i love them all but can't get away from the performance of the original 351 Cleveland

Another awesome awesome Monday, thanks for making Monday great again 👍liked

@duanepierson4375

4 жыл бұрын

Making Monday’s great again!

Love the shop! Nick is awesome! Hope you guys enjoy your two minutes of summer! 😂😂

@Rogerthat777

5 жыл бұрын

Come on now, everyone up in Quebec knows they have at least 2 beautiful full days of summer! 😎 I miss Montreal, a gorgeous classic old city...

Interesting episode!!! I am partial to Mopars too, but these other brands are quite impressive also. It is interesting how he got another 20 hp by adding that 1" carb spacer... More torque too...

Wow! What can I tell you... Another home run! That '53 Buick is sweet, the burnout at the beginning was awesome and that SB 427 is super smooth and a perfect match for that beautiful AC Cobra replica. Too bad the 351 swap turned out to be a shitshow! Thanks, Nick, for another cool Monday! 🤓

427 is considered a small block? What a sweet sound it's making!

@stevebeavers3754

5 жыл бұрын

@Grumpy468, thanks for the explanation!

you can buy push rods in many different length. use a adjustable push rod tool to find the proper length

That's 1 tough Ford in the Dyno room

I know you resolved the power steering pump issue but that's why many cobras have manual steering. That's why many have such large steering wheels. You also have the option of electronic steering.

My dad had 5 Buick Specials back in the 60's and early 70's ranging from 1952 up to 1958 that he drove tell they broke to much for him to be able to repair then parked them in the pasture at our friends house in Pennsylvania the last one was parked in 1972 . the last I knew they were still there but with the salt used back then I wouldn't expect much to have survived all of them looked perfect when parked but you know what the road salt in Yew York and Pennsylvania is like . I've never had the heart to go and look I want to keep my memory's more then I want to get one of them back

Nice job with the little small block Windsor!!!! That’s big block torque #’s.

Back in the day when Hemi's ,L88s ,RamAir Vs and some 427 Tunnel Ports roamed the streets is what I'm talking about .Even a Boss 429 .

@davidlefranc6240

5 жыл бұрын

i hope the 429 and the gaz at that time was cheap

@dondakota920

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidlefranc6240 muscle cars were a dime a dozen in the mid-to-late 70s. I've probably owned about 20 or more and I don't think I ever paid more than $1,000 for any car back then and most of them were three to $600 range.

@almierz4604

5 жыл бұрын

Grumpy468 YEP ! The 70s were interesting cruising WOODWARD from 9 mile all the way to WIDETRACK CIRCLE in Pontiac and back . We parked at NORTHWOOD shopping center, packed that place with over 100 cars on Friday and Saturday nights. 13 mile & Woodward was almost impossible to get through. YEP , I remember cruising in my 1963 Jaguar convertible XKE with my 1966 Ford 427 side.oiler , dual quad 650s , C6 trans w/3300 10" Converter an custom sidepipes. Now days even being assembled QUIETLY, the cops want to bust you or fine you for trespassing. Like Archie Bunker says : THOSE WERE THE DAYS. !

@olderthanyoucali8512

4 жыл бұрын

@Grumpy468 like they told Jed Clampet "Californey is were you want to be) this is where the muscle cars were in abundance, no where else had so many race cars of all types ,no matter what part you lived in, in the late fifties till today!

Another fantastic episode Nick !

love the straight 8

the move in the drinker side window then out the windshield was pretty cool

Wow, Nick made a FORD really run good!!!!! with no trouble

Thanks Nick, ☺️👍 that 427 Ford was impressive. I had a feeling it would make good torque because of the smaller intake. The 1inch riser was trick👍🇺🇸 Also, I like all American Muscle, Including Mopar. Knew a guy with a 340 in a dart. It sounded nice when accelerating

Car heaven. Most impressive video from the ultimate muscle car shop.

I love this channel because it shows the average car guy all the little nuances of building a modified muscle car, almost nothing is plug and play and it takes a lot of experience, knowledge, patience to do it right, something as simple as putting in a 351w where a 302 stood isn't quite a bolt in deal when the 351 deck height is 9.5" vs 8.2" for the 289/302

@gregorytimmons4777

5 жыл бұрын

You will be lucky if deck height is the only issue. The likelihood that motor mounts or getting the clutch, bellhousing, trans, driveline all bolting together is just not as smooth as to be a given. Something not much of an issue on a Chevy can be a different ballgame on a Ford.

@derekstewart8175

5 жыл бұрын

@@gregorytimmons4777 Yep The 351W and 302 is uses different bell housing patterns depending on whick model small block you use and the much taller deck height on a 351w causes all kinds of issues in a chassis designed for the short deck, hence why Most people built a 347 or new frpp boss block with the big bore, 363+ other than a stonger stock block design the 347 is a easier way to go, i didn't list every issue but you get my point that its a good channel showing you cant just throw things together expecting things to just bolt right up, especially in a kit cobra jmo And ford interchangeability isnt the friendliest, like putting a 455 buick in a 350 buick car, lots to change over, hence why i love the Pontiacs i specialize in, same externally unless you use an after market block, some motor mount difference between years but overall pretty easy

Nick, I love your passion and tenacity working on cars. That is what it takes to enjoy them and work on them. ..new subscriber!

@NicksGarage

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for signing up, Robert.

In Australia we say "bonnet" and "boot" instead of "hood" and "trunk", and have the steering wheel on the right side ha ha!

Thanks Nick......this summer I'll do my first ford fox body....keeper

👍 Thank you again nice video show ! 😎. Good narration and music choice by your cameraman 👍🏼

@chrischiampo7647

5 жыл бұрын

Denis Lefebvre agreed Cameraman’s Top Notch 😀😎👍🏼

@Smarterthanyou-mthrfkr

5 жыл бұрын

Denis Lefebvre i love this show, no personal fluff up dramas

I love the growing pains in this episode! The cobra build shows exactly what hot rod guys go through to get what they want. I need to do a really good video on my Bel Air gasser when I get that far, using as much original parts to make stuff fit as I can, and making what I don't have. I love every minute of it, even when I am cussing at my car lol

@tonyjones6689

2 жыл бұрын

Do away with power steering and go with a rack and pinion set up

That 427 sounds really sweet... and extremely smooth. The builder I would suggest has a good package sorted.

@FalconXE302

5 жыл бұрын

@Jugger It ran extremely smooth... proof is the flat torque curve. Good day to you.

@FalconXE302

5 жыл бұрын

@Jugger Yep... that's because a flat torque curve = smooth running engine. It's science fact, not opinion. Good night to you.

@dinojay8410

4 жыл бұрын

This 427 "small block" ... is it the same block as the 351 W? Just stroked and bored? I thought that the older Ford 427s were the FE block with the higher deck height, and was the basis for the 1963 NASCAR 427s and the 1965 427 SOHC??

@jquest43

4 жыл бұрын

@@FalconXE302 good antifreeze =smooth running

@jquest43

4 жыл бұрын

@@dinojay8410 nope.those were custom. His is a true 427 Ford..small block. If it's a big block it's not a 427