DECENT EXPOSURE; this 50-year-old pickup packs Ford Racing's newest crate motor.(News)

Byline: LARRY EDSALL IN 2004, Ford Racing Technology will add a new crate engine to a performance parts catalog that already fills 168 pages with everything from air conditioning-delete kits to wing nuts. This new 5.0-liter Cammer V8 is based on the 4.6-liter modular motor that powers the Ford SVT Mustang Cobra.

In the Cobra the cast-iron 4.6-liter V8 is equipped with an Eaton supercharger and produces 390 hp. But cast in aluminum-and with larger forged pistons, ported heads, flanged cylinder liners, modified roller-finger followers, multilayer steel-insert head gaskets, ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.