Well I don't know ***** about the Northstar engines other than they are a pretty sweet engine with a ton of potential. But the DOHC Mach 1 engine is 614 lbs per Ford. Granted it's a iron block engine. The aluminum version is lighter. But that's pretty friggin' close to 650lbs. I said "like 650 lbs" speaking from memory which is never perfect. The 460 is actually closer to 720 lbs.

As for 464 lbs...I bet dollars to donuts that's without accesories or a flywheel/flexplate or exhaust.

 

well as per that site a northstar is 404 bare, 464 dressed

 

What kind of performance parts are out for the Northstar? Carb intake? Ignition? Blowers?

I remember seeing dress up items in Hot Rod once. and something about a transmission adapetor.

That's a pretty light weight engine.

 

the posibilities are endless.... www.chrfab.com that one site is where i am getting ALL of my stuff to build up my northstar, and no where else

 

That's teh place fromthe Hot Rod artice I remember the funky address now that I see it again.

Cool stuff.

 

here are some engine dimensions, they seem pretty accurate mopar wise anyway.

 

Bwahahahahaha, man this is great, I'm coming out of the closet guys! Picked up an 89 5.0 from a crown vic the other day, tore it down and man it looks good. Time to go shopping for aluminum heads, new pistons, etcc.... What a tiny engine, it almost looks like a rotary. The rotary is officially out of my life. Anyone want a large street ported 6 port in good running condition?

 

What transmission are you running behind the Northstar, I like that idea, I'm starting to think of a Northstar FB......

 

You can mount a T-56 to a 302 with the right bellhousing.

Not sure about input shafts, but thats fixable too. ****, Ive seen T-56s mounted up to 2.3Ts with a v8 bellhousing.

Regardless, the T-5 isnt THAT weak - just get a good shifter so you dont bend a rod in the transmission and just dont beat on it, it will last. And Uh... v8s have pretty big powerbands, the gearing isnt really that bad.

But yeah, 302s are not bad motors! If I wasnt going with the 2.3T Id be going with one unless I could get my haggling skills up to snuff and go snag one of those supercheap LS1s... you bastards.

 

Im going to be using a version of the T-5, IIRC its a tremec 3556 or something like that it can handle 500ft/lbs and is a very nice 5spd to mate with the Northstar's powerband. The tranny comes off of the Cobra R models, and is labeled "HD". so for $1600 this better be a damn good tranny.

 

^^^ I can come get that rotary engine for ya. give me a pm.

 

Why in the world wouldn't you use a 6 speed for that amount of money? Just curious what your thought process is on that.

 

Someone needs to build a V8 RX-7 with a flappy paddle gearbox

 

THAT would be the day... lmao

 

I don't know what you've been smoking to not realize that your lincoln has a SOHC not DOHC 4.6, only lincoln to get the DOHC 4.6 was the Mark VIII(of which i am a previous owner of). check it out, that extra cam in the heads makes a big difference...

 

wait... v8??? what happened to the whipple blower project????

 

Yep.

 

you do realize they made the DOHC 4.6L with iron and aluminum blocks. iron blocks are up around 576 yes. but the teksid block(93-98 DOHC 4.6L's) was most definately not that heavy, **** the block weighs in around 70 lbs. the iron 4.6 block is over 160 iirc

 

Are the older BBFs weighed with iron intake manifolds and heads? Jeeze, thats some heft.

Too bad you'd need a cobra crade, tall tires, revs or going into overdive to actually be able to accelerate through the traps with a healthy one in a rx-7 :/

 

Sadly, it is for sale.

I got it running, absolutely loved the response and power, but a little voice in my head reminded me that it's never going to pass smog in a big city, which is where I might have to live after I get my degree. It sux.

 

i have been advised by the master of the northstar (alan Jackson, owner of CHRFAB) that because of the northstars' power curve it does very poorly with most six speed trannies. It cant pull a low numerical gear (like a .5X which is in most T56 trannies and 6 spds) so he told me that he gets best results with gears like .6X and .7X final gears, such that found in most 5 spds.

and that particular tranny that i have selected comes with a .68 fifth gear, which makes it just right for my applications.

 

Bad news guys! The ford 5.0 doesn't fit the FC so hotly after all. The oil pump is in the WORST possible location, right over the steering rack! Maybe I'll be saving up for the LS1 after all.

 

talk to them long and hard b4 you get that tranny...my friend blow up 4 of them with his mustang.....but sayin they dont make a good tranny they make a real good trany you just need to get the right 1 caz they dont replace them if they blow up

 

You're tlaking about putting it in a significantly lighter car that is probably running a much smaller tire. It will hold up a lot better under those conditions.

 

Granny's kit mounts the engine really high in the chassis. It'll fit under inder a stock hood carbed with a weiand xcellerator typew intake. If oyu go fuel injected, just use half inch spacers to drop the subframe and it will fit under a stock hood. The distributor is a really tight fit too.