I am a late arrival to the thread, but I thought I would add a few comments. The truck bell housing will accept a Saginaw 3 or 4 speed tranny by redrilling a couple of holes. However, the Lincoln flywheel is unique to this engine series. The center register hole is the same as an FE, but the flange bolt pattern is different and unique to Lincoln.. The truck flywheel is a real horse and takes a 12 inch clutch. Scheiffer made an aluminum version that shows up from time to time. There was a Factory aluminum bell housing that was part of the M-335 option made by Cook or Cragar, but they are rare. Intakes are a problem, the only high performance one is the afore mentioned M-335 2x4. For street use the cast truck intake from 57 to 63 takes a conventional Holley and flows better than the car version. Port configuration at the head is close to an SBC and a 2 inch spacer and some clever fab work will allow you to use any SBC manifold. Hood clearance could be a problem as the spacers make the manifold really tall. 332 Truck blocks can be bored to 4 inch, and most 368 blocks will go to 4.125. The truck engine uses a gear driven reverse rotation cam so you need to factor that in if you elect a truck block. 332 and 302 have forged steel cranks of 3.66 stroke same as 368. This is a good upgrade to a hotter engine. Lincoln blocks have an incredibly tall deck.. 10.94 inch vs 10.17 for an FE. This necessitates a very long rod (7.06").. and a tall piston. Such a tall deck begs for a stoked crank, and Lincoln Ys of 450 cu in have been built. Someone ask if you could use a 368 damper on a 317.. As far as I know all the crank snouts are the same so yes... But it's pretty easy to adapt an SBC damper by a little machining and fabbing a spacer. Someone contemplating building a Lincoln for a project should not be intimidated. It's not cheap or easy, but no more involved than doing a Buick Olds or Caddillac. By the way the injected engine shown in this thread is mine.. It resides in a replica of the 57 Mercury Mermaid that was raced on Daytona Beach in 57. It is a bone stock 56 Lincoln short block with 57 heads. With a Clay Smith cam a Vertex magneto and Hilborn injection it made 377 hp on an engine dyno.
I bought a set of knockoffs about a year ago. Think they went for a little over $100. Found them on EBAY. Bought a 368 about the same time for $500, but not for sale. Going in my 57 F-100 some day, with hydramatic.
In the late 50's early 60's they were used in bootleger cars in the south, most were in 1952 and up to 1957 fords. they were manual overdrives some say the speeds were over 150 with these engines. Just lucky enuff to have a doccumented one, talked to the Original owner last year. The trunks in these were never used because of the engine weight , everything was placed in the backseat to take the push out of the frontend. If I new how I would post photos!
hi deago i have a 368 lincoln engine not running yet ,but if memory serves it puts out about 300 hp. mine is out of a 57 lincoln premier good luck Ray
I pulled a pair of heads, 4V intake, ram horns, and the valvetrain from a '58 or '59 Ford tow truck last winter I found in a junkyard. Pretty cool stuff. Also, I just snapped a few pics of this earlier today down the street at the local grain elevator. Its a 57 C900 series BIG JOB with the Lincoln motor as well. Just lives outside of town a couple miles. Interesting history he told me of the truck itself. Used to be owned by Continental Steel in Kokomo, IN and traveled all over the country (making deliveries I suppose?).
Thats the motor in the mermaid, right? VERY cool car. Oops, should have read the rest of the thread before I popped off.
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