The Ford 427 SOHC arrived as a weapon, not a commuter engine, built to win races and unsettle rivals who thought they had big-block dominance locked up. It shared displacement with other FE V8s, but ...

[Ed. Note: Yes, Chevrolet guys, today is also your day. Stay tuned later in the day for the 427 Big-Block Chevy!] HOT ROD Editor Eric Dahlquist called it the "90-Day Wonder," but you know it as the ...

Grant, via CarCraft.com:I recall an early 2000s program warning me of excessive piston speed in my 427 Ford FE, which has nearly the same stroke as a Chevy 396/427. Nowadays, stroker kits are almost ...

The Ford and Chevy 427 big blocks sit at the center of one of performance history’s fiercest rivalries, yet the two engines followed very different paths from the dyno cell to the winner’s circle. I ...

When Ford introduced the 4.6 SOHC V-8 in 1991, it was vastly different than any Ford V-8 we had ever seen; it hardly seemed a Ford powerplant. Yet, like the old FE-series 427, it had block main skirts ...

If I remember high school science class accurately, the "Fe" symbol on the periodic table of elements means iron, correct? However, when we observe this pair of 427 "FE" iron, side oiler big-blocks ...

American carmakers in the 1960s chased trends like Metallica cutting their hair. Seemingly, every brand had to have a large displacement V8, even producing ...