[Power Hungry]

Originally Posted by cleatus12r

One was 361-powered and the other had a 292. What's really sad is that the 361-powered truck would run circles around the third truck with a 534.

The 534, while a mountain of a motor in regards to both displacement as well as physical size, really wasn't all that great. With a narrow powerband, it was really only good for exceptionally heavy loads where gearing could be utilized to take advantage of the 500 Ft. Lbs. of torque it made. Peak HP was really sad, though. That, and the fact that it only got about 4 MPG made it useful only for local deliveries as it had no reasonable driving range.

The FT Blocks (330, 361, & 391)were great workhorses. The FTs (basically a truck version of the FE), while not big on HP, were still solid engines and very prolific in the Ford truck lineup. They'd last virtually forever.

As for the Lincoln Y Blocks (279, 302, 317, & 332), those were great engines as well. While different from the Y Block used in the cars (272, 292 and 312, most notably), they were very deep skirted, solid engines that made good power for the displacements.

It's really cool what Ford was able to do with these trucks back in the day. They may not have been fast, but then nobody was really in a hurry anyway.