Rocco wrote on 07/24/09 at 09:01:07:i'm almost positive there were only shelby's and the boss is different. shelby was like a non inhouse performance mod like roush or saleen is today as shelby is pretty close with ford. that's how i have it, but then again i was born in '88 so please correct me if i'm wrong!
and i know the super cobra jets were the engine 429 or 426 depending on the year!
and i did learn, u are 100% correct! i just wish this lesson didn't cost me almost 300 bucks!!
Pretty close Rocco... The "Shelby" name was used both "in-house" by the Ford family on some Mustangs and even the GT race machines which won Le-Mans. He (Mr. Carrol Shelby) also used his own name outside of Ford for cars and parts at different points in history.
As someone mentioned, the "Boss" was usually associated with a 302 C.I. aptly named the "Boss 302." However, and now as a primarily GM person, I could be wrong, but there may have been a "Boss 351 C.I."
I'm pretty sure the biggest engines from Ford came in 427; 428; and 429. All very much different besides the one cubic inch of displacement. But no 426 C.I. was associated with Ford, as I recall, the Mopar line of Hemi engines were famous for that one. They (Hemi) were so much of an advantage they were eventually banned by NASCAR.
Also they are the cylinder type upon which our little LS650 combustion chamber resembles; except with two domes and a pair of valves for each cylinder dome! (Makes you wonder why it isn't a two spark plug design...
Didn't someone around here do a two plug conversion? Lancer? Was it done by modifying a LS650 cylinder head? And when will details be available?