NOBODY Can Believe what Engine they put in this Thunderbird! | The Throttlestop Collection 🤯
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- Nobody can believe what engine the masterminds from the Throttlestop in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin put in this classic Thunderbird! We will check it out, hear it run and give you a look at some of the other cool cars and high performance parts at the this amazing shop! #cars #carlovers #thunderbird
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that's got to be the coolest engine swap i've seen in years. so glad it's not some "resto-mod" too. perfect.
It's so well done. The motor looks like it grew in the engine bay
@@user-fs8ec9vu1d Ford should have produced this combo....
Putting the THUNDER in Thunderbird... 😎
I once owned a white 1962 Ford Thunderbird 2-door hardtop coupe with a 390 Special V-8, with a
Holley 4-barrel. With baby blue leather seats, power seats, power windows, and power door locks. What sweet ride she was.
The 427 2-4 BBL SOHC engine is a factory HP MONSTER!
Had a buddy back in Texas who had a Square Bird with a sunroof and a 430 in it... That car would SCREAM.
I lived out in Abilene, Texas back in the early-mid 1970's. Lots of big and big- blocked older fords still on the street and sitting around. Easy to go to the local wrecking yard and pluck a big block high-horsepower engine for a few hundred dollars and put it in whatever you wanted. Mostly for fun, few were show queens and over the top costly builds. My buddys dad had a 1969 T-Bird with the factory 429, powerful and quite a highway cruiser.
Holy smokes! Look at the room to access the bellhousing bolts. And a front mounted distributor to boot. If you are a good mechanic you get this car in heaven.
I've always imagined how much the the handling would have been improved if Ford had moved the engine mounts back a few inches.
I sure wish I had that engine in my 1960 Thunderbird.
I also want the Monster Miata.
Awesome cars I love all vintage cars
Wow, my daily driver for 10 years and running is a 390 T85 OD 59 bird, FPT long tube headers, front disk brakes and rear sway bar. Last of the easy to rebuild and maintain luxury cruisers and one of the safest cars ever built. Manual trans square birds very rare. Glad no others like square birds so I can afford them. Watch Kristensen 59 thunderbird at goodwood. Planet pulling 430 stomping flock of euro chickens is hilarious.
Haha ive seen that car , or those vids on here i mean.
That things awesome!
Serious engine that 427 ford; Factory ratings were 615 hp @ 7000 rpm with a single 4-barrel, and 657 hp @ 7500 with dual carburetors.
My first little league baseball coach had a black T-bird like this beauty.
He'd take as many of the team that could fit to get burgers after we won.Skeeter.😊
Yall should've painted the Batman logo on the doors. 😊😅😂
A cousin’s boyfriend had a frogeye back in the ‘60s. I remember loading up everybody that could fit and flying down backroads in Oklahoma to get ice cream in town. Fond memories!
We put 427 ford from Holman and Moody in a 23foot Formula offshore boat. It would do 55mph in the Gulf of Mexico. Fantastic engine
Thanks for your podcasts
I’ve driven past your shop many times and can see that you are doing quality work from afar, but to get inside and have a tour is fantastic.
Now that's a Sleeper ,nice Thunderbird
A friend of mine and I built a 1960 Chevy Belair 2 door, pea soup green. We put a 425 (or more) HP dual quad 409 in it. That was a sleeper!
Great collection! They are All my favorites,the Pontiacs and the T-Bird brought back memories of the Good Ole Days..
OUTSTANDING
LOVE that Cammer in
The Thunderbird!!
The 62 Catalina is
FLAWLESS!!😎 so cool…
The only engine I would put in this car would be a prepped 351 Cleveland, Jerico 4speed trans, 3:23:1 9" rear & a Hotchkis suspension.
I love those Clevelands I had one here in Australia in my ute had dual lpg/petrol and she had some get up and go.
Perfect choice for that boat.We owned a ‘60 vert with a 430” Lincoln engine,and it flew pretty good.As far as the exhaust headers,I had a similar circumstance accommodating a ‘70 RA/IV in a ‘64 GTO.With the cast iron headers off,it dropped right in,but with a 3” setback to the firewall,and no way to get four tubes down in the rear location.What a headache.That T-Bird is definitely a showpiece.
That’s an amazing setup!❤❤❤❤
Racing Jack, that is some cool stuff
Lovin the fan shroud too.
My Lord that is an amazing shop and whew! Those cars 🚗 😍 👌
⭐️🤩👍Very cool rides!
With some sway bars and brakes, the T-bird would be really fun.
Got to love it..I own a 63 impala SS with the duel quad 4 speed 409…when I was 17…scary fun…
If you can afford a Holman Moody cammer. Pretty sure you can find a few$$ for better brakes
Yep, go like hell and stop like nil. Bad combo, but at least they're watching for that when driving it.
He says it’s basically an engine display for car shows.
The '62 SD is where it's at, but wouldn't hate driving that Mazduh.
Good stuff!
Love it!! Joe
🇺🇸👍 Amazing Collection!
What Money, hard work, and persistence can accomplish.
That is an amazing car!! I'm not a FORD fanatic,but damn!...This is awesome!!
Beautiful 👍
So, it's a 59 T-bird that was originally an FE motored car , probably a 332 but maybe a 352 motor. Both the 332 and the latter 427 are FE blocks and share the same mountings so any mid block would bolt right in that car. It was definitely not original to the car as they are 5 years apart. My step dad had a 58 with the 332 in it, super cool cars.
Nope...430 cu.in Lincoln engine was common
@@mikeparkhurst8804 I believe Edsel had a 430 in 1960...
Certainly put the Thunder in that Bird !
Love that 🎉I would like that in my 92 E150 Custom
Also a spad what I think is a 6 2 Pontiac. It's definitely a Pontiac but I'm thinking it's a '62 Catalina or Grand Prix. Saw that up there on the rack over there near the corner of the shop. Again very very cool. Those cars are just very long on style. They have so much style. They're just dripping with style but they've got a 421 or even a 389. They're just drunk with torque. What a wonderful combination
Very nice cars. Very nice collection. However that Thunderbird that is very old school sleeper. I mean it's cruising around exhaust going through the full exhaust system. Nice kind of quiet compliant cruise down the road. You pull up to a red light and there's some jack wagon with his Coyote. Engined mustang and he's sitting there revving it up a little bit and you just look over it. Glance over at him and right before the light shortly before the light turns green you open up the electric cutouts and that lets him know that that's unbeard is way more than what it looks and he's got definitely got a race on his hands
Very cool 🤙 I just picked up a 59 convertible galaxie and I'm looking for something like this for the drive train
My dad had a 427 Daytona motor in a 58...it was a lot of fun
Was that a 64 GTO I saw there real quick does that have the old eight lug rims? I commented before you guys got to it. It’s a 62 with a 421 SD beautiful car. I’ve only seen one before and it’s in show condition and the guy does drive it once in a blue moon.
Nice old cars. Can I come live in your shop??😂
I new a fella had two ford's with the cammers in them. Jim Dove he made the engines. One was a 56 T Bird the other 64 fairlane.
NICE
I drove a 1970 firebird for years. I was trying to rebuild a 1971 GTO. My first car was a 1958 Chev.
My favorite motor in my favorite car.🤩
The T-bird looks like it was delivered that way. The MX-5 would look 'factory' if the mods to firewall and radiator support were rolled and smoothed. The Mazda's real appeal is OEM parts for reliability, and no external signs of what's under it.
Of course its one of your favorite motors, Bro! It should be one of every motorhead's favorite motors!! PS, I watch Cycle drag too.
How much of the ohc v8 heads come from a production sohc 4 cylinder?
I miss being able to see everything, and be able to get to everything in the engine compartment.
The three best looking engines ever, imho, was the 427 SOHC, the 429 Semi-Hemi and the 426 MOPAR HEMI. Close third is the early MOPAR HEMI's.
This body style is magnificent. Give it better brakes, upgrade the suspension, and drive the darn thing.
Fly the wings of man= this Thunder Bird!
How nice. What sleepers.
Cutting away that rad support didn’t do much for the overall rigidity of a unibody convertible. Did you have to put some cross car lateral braces to keep the LS motor from trying to jump out of the engine compartment?
Where are you at in Elkhart lake WI You guys are having to much fun up there
I will gladly race you any time any day! As long as it's understood that you will let me win!
While it's interesting to hear the engine, don't bother trying to compete by giving a commentary unless you're going to have Subtitles! Nice to see that you support Triumph motor car manufacturers:-)
Listen to the solid lifters!
No lifters.The valve train is is all under the valve cover hence "overhead cam" It does have a massive timing chain going up to the heads.
@@loach392 shimmed buckets?
@@SimiPair Early engines had shims, later had adjustable rocker arms.
I searched all over for one of the 340 motors for a skyliner restoration
I wonder if the Ford-O-Matic will survive in the T Bird.
I also like the statement about the V8 Mazda which translated to "dont get on it, unless you want the six speed gears to make hamburger out of your legs".
Snazzy looking though.
Stacey David placed a Ford 347 stroker in a first generation Mazda Miata. That car is a road course racing Corvette eater.
We had a 58 with an itty-bitty 312.
Wow! All of them are very impressive!
So the air cleaner and the valve covers are original ?
The 421 dominated everything even lemans Pontiac-was banded heavy duty was in three models in 1964 even.
My dad had a 60, with a 352/2bbl
Oh I was expecting the V10
The '59 needs 4 wheel discs!❤😎👍
Wouldn't it have been nice to get one of these back in the day?
it be be nice to get in one today!!
They must have built more cammers than i thought its supposed to be the unobtainable holy grail of motors but there's a few getting around. Legendary engine.
Binky would seem at home there.
One thing I know about those early T-Birds is there's very limited room for exhausts.....
So I'd love to get a look at your fabricated headers.
I miss my 72 GTO😒.
lol in the late 60s? somebody put a cammer in a 57 tbird- it was called the Boomin bird. I think it made hot rod mag?
....but why does the monster motor in the T-bird sound lile a bag of spanners?
Only glancing at the photo I'm thinking 12 cylinder tank engine derived from 12 cylinder aircraft engine designed for Spitfire & Hurricane WW Ii fighters. Gallons per mile, not miles per gallon trip planning.
Should put a fan shroud on it
I love the sleeper classics with lots of HP, but are still quiet. I guess, it can be called, a deep fake.
THAT'S A THUNDERBIRD!!!!!!!!
I might still have a 427 side oiler still in storage along with a Pontiac 421 what can I say? I’m gonna old man like yourself.
What a cool ride👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥 Ill bet that son of a gun will move that luxury cruiser right on down the road Thunderbird 👍👍👍
My vote for the ultimate sleeper !…….
Well…thanks… One wonders :IF Thunderbird , had went Performances in early years (e.g. Handling, motors,HDUTY ,ETC.)…….??? Admittedly, (the 56-57’s, Port Holes,Baby Blues,* FCODES,etc.) are so appealing????…. ps: the 1962 Pontiac DRAG PAKS, GOt ME hooked on “ performance vehicles “: in 1962 @ one of our Local Hangouts …etc.
Put some good period brakes( aluminum drums) dual master cylinders and whip some bootie and slopar butt in stock class
The Mazda is the ultimate sleeper.
Gonna take both feet to stop that beast. Nice job..! Personally I'd have dropped the SOHC in to the Meeotter. :)
Bet it favors the higher rev range
Can you imagine if modern engineering was brought to bear, say variable cams, efi, a huge CPU to run the motor, this thing because how it breathes in NA configuration I’d have to think it could lay down maybe 800+ WHP
615 HP stock.
I thought that the 4 door style tbird in those years were ugly but with the right wheels they were acceptable. this doesn't have the right wheels. My neighbor had one tucked into his newly built garage across from the street but it was pretty well worn out (mid 80s). Never did get it going before he died that I know of.
The sohc is a butiefull engine
It kills me every time I see a SOHC that is a “display engine“. at least put it in something buildable and beautiful like a 65 or 67 Thunderbird. With side pipes and a big ass set of torque thrusts. I’d love to see him do a documentary on Ram Air V. That would be a good one.
I think I’d at least bring that bird up to snuff so I could drive it around safely. Look at all the room in that engine bay to easily work on the motor. Those were the good old days!
8.27 aluminium exhaust manifolds, what possibly can go wrong? Was not copied a lot.
Imagine the things you could have with a bottomless bank account...😂
It comes with everything but Suzanne Somers.
hope it don't end up like that 65 comet "NO BRAKES"""
Motor is worth more than car.
The engine is worth much more than the car