Ford 335 engine

Volume sold, 1962 to 2001, when they ended in the Ford Explorer, so that ranks as a five.

And now, the Ford Cleveland, the 335 series, and the Boss 302 that I mentioned, was a Windsor short block with Cleveland heads on it.

That's how they launched in 1969 and 1970.

And in 1970, they launched the actual Cleveland engine that used its own block design, and the Cleveland later morphed into the 400 Ford engine, and also, the 351M, which is not quite the same engine family as the Cleveland.

Historic victories and legacy, really, that's all anchored on the Boss 302.

They didn't make them for that long, and they really dominated Trans Am in 1970.

I give it a two.

Power potential on gasoline today, I give it a four.

I don't care.

Well, I just know that Mercury, it originally had a 351 Cleveland in it.

It still got it.

Same one or did you buy a different

one? No, I bought a different one.

Okay, that's why.

So the engine was a 351 Cleveland, original to the car, but it was tired.

I took the heads off and found out it had a bunch of stress fractures and stuff in the cylinder wall, so I swapped it out.

[laughs]

Uh, so it's got Cleveland, uh, cylinder heads on it, Higgins heads, um, just box stock Higgins heads, uh, T&D steel rockers for longevity, huge push rods.

Um, if anybody...

If I'm, like, checking my lash and somebody gives me a hard time, I can just take one of those out and use it as parking lot security, like 7/16 or, like, 10 inches long or something stupid like that.

Check magnet.

With a 351 Cleveland, and I beat that car like a rented mule.

And an 8-track.

I had an 8-track, but the thing was, I... blew the timing chain in it like four or five times, ripped the rear end out of it.

He was working on it in the yard for, it seemed like a whole year before he was driving it, but he loved that car.

I hope it was a 351 Cleveland.

I can't remember.

I hope it was.