Ok first off, i think this is my first post, so hey everyone nice to meet you.

My car is a 72 ford mustang it has a 302 2v and about 90,000 miles on it. I have done a cam, and manifold swap with a edelbrock cam and intake and i have a holley 650 carb on it, Well i am not satisfied in the least.

Heres my question i have a guy that has a 351 C and a 429 engine for sale. I am not sure which one is gonna be best for me, they are both about the same price about $300.00 and were running when they were pulled from the cars. Will both fit in my car without major modification. Which is a better option to with?

 

Rebuild the engine you have. You will need a tranny, and drivelineto go with either of those 300 dollar boat anchors. Besides, running before pulled does not mean a whole lot as they are probably just as tired as the engine you have.

 

hmmm.... for 300$ each I'll buy both ... (one of the downsides livin in europe [:@])

sorry I aint helping here

 

Tell us your plans for the car. Daily driver, drag car, weekend warrior, etc? That will help towards the decision.

By the way, the way I see it you will have to rebuild the engines either way...

 

Turn the 302 into a 347 with h/c/i. You should be plenty happy with 400rwhp.

 

+1

 

I agree with the 347 idea, thats what I did. I would sugesst you just getting a roller block to build though. I have rounded 2 flat tappets off in a row and everything is pointing to bad cams. This problem gets very expensive very quickly! If you get a later block, you can run either a flat tappet or a roller cam ( go roller) and you wont have to worry about this at all.