Projects Ford 300 l6 Good,Bad or just plain Ugly

Offy makes 4BBL intakes for them, Clifford makes 2X4 and 3X2 manifolds. Several sources for cams and headers, although the cast iron exhaust manifolds from the later EFI 4.9s flow almost as good as headers and take up less room. Good selection of manual and auto trannies.
Any nob can put a small block in there. If a Ford deserves a Ford engine, go the rest of the way and put a truck engine in your truck. Be a man!

 

Holls s#*t i never knew thanks

 

Yep, Greg (aka Frenchtown Flyer) runs a 300 six in his altered. If I remember right he was running LOW 9's (shootin for 8's) with 3 carbs. How's that for grunt!!

Greg's a tricky one - you gotta keep yer eye on him.

 

I've had a couple (not in rods), good engine.

 

35.63" from bellhousing mating surface to the front of fan blade. Varies with type of fan and pulley of course. Add the room between fan and radiator, rad. thickness, and you'll see how tight it is. Great engine, I put one in my '79 Bronco for plowing snow.

 

Had one in my 1st car, a 1961 Falcon sedan delivery. Took some firewall massaging. The guy that helped me build it knew Ak Miller, so we got all the head porting tricks, etc. I could spank SBCs all weekend long and still get 18mpg during the week, IF I could keep my foot out of it (gas was 29 cents a gallon). Towed a lot of other guys home, too.

 

Growing up, my buddy had one with the Clifford 6=8 4 bbl and headers in his 76-F100 with 3 spd. I had a 77 F150 with the 351M stock, I could get him the first 60ft but he would wear me out after that.
Great motor, had them in work trucks for years tons of torque with that long stroke.

 

300 is a stong engine with strong parts. I use 300 con rods in some of my Y builds, can't break 'em.

 

300 sixes - I LOVE EM!

I've posted these pics before, but here they are again for food for thought;

homebuilt '30 RPU - RUNS 11s WITH 2.47 REAR GEARS! Street legal(ish)



Son's Anglia - 240 six (destroked 300) all steel, C4, narrowed 9"


'33 Willys - 13 seconds on street tires


Old dirt champ car replica - made up 300 to look like an older Duesy 4-valver DOHC


And lastly, THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER Altered - 147 mph 1/4s - almost too much fun to waste on an old man

 

hey if you want an old school lookin' six, go looking in some old bigger fords for the 262 inliner, now thats a little different from your average day 300, you would be in the dark when it comes to speed parts i would imagine...

 

For sake of arguement

 

if you want true split exhaust on the cheap the fuel injected 300s from the 80s had split round exhaust, put it on the 300 in my daughters 70 short wide f100 and sounds awesome.

 

Excellent motor, I've had 5-6 of them with great results, derablility, and gas milage. I'd use one if I had it.

Michael

 

Not at all but I think that the majority of us feel that a 40 Ford pickup deserves a cool looking V8.

My original thought when I posted before was that you already had the engine and that was the reason you wanted to run it.

I suggested the Y block because to me that is just about the prettiest Ford engine around when it is dressed up right and to me has the best sound through a set of glass packs of any engine built before or since.

I'd get my handy dandy tape measure out before doing anything though and see if the thing will fit in the engine compartment without a lot of firewall hacking.

With all that said, it would be fun and should be dead nuts reliable for as long as you would want to drive it. Same reason that I have a 292 Chev 6 going in my 48. A bit different than the norm and reliable as all get out.

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So you want to be different - just like everyone else. Seriously, different for different's sake isn't always a good thing and, more often then not, is actually bad.

The Olds has a lot more "heritage" in hot rods than any modern engine.

If you're asking my opinion - yes.

I'm a fan of Ford-in-a-Ford, but the '40 Pickup is an iconic design that looks best when done up in a more traditional manner. If you had a mid-50s Ford, I'd be all for putting the 300 in there as the old flathead 6 was an option originally.

As has been said, the 300 six is an outstanding engine. I just don't think it will be worth cutting up a '40 pickup to make one fit.

Just my opinion - ymmv

 

Dress up that 300 to make it look old

 

Now , how the heck do ya have them on both sides? Is that the old Offy design? or homemade?

 

Wellllll, I didn't mean to make it exactly like this prototype head - just doll it up with old-timey looking bolt-ons.

 

LOL, ok.

 

The 300 six makes an awesome motor, but I do agree with the others that the '40 Ford Pickup may not be the right application for it. But what the hell, do what you want and have fun doing it.

Here is the 300 I built for my shop truck. Had no problem yanking the 4200 lb Monterey home at 65 in OD.

 

i have one in my hotrod lots of power plenty of torque and a real hoot to drive

 

the 300 has more torque and better gas mileage than the 302

 

really great motor! how much longer than a flathead?

 

great motor, my dad ran one in a 64 falcon back in the late 60s best time with the 300 was 11.02 not to shabby.I still got a his motors and intake set up along with a bunch of other stuff for it.. if your curious about how wild a 6 can be look at ford 6 or clifford.. heres a few of my 300 6 collection from my dad....

 

Can't ware it out, well almost