New Ford 390 FE Running Comp cams XE262H 

It does run pretty good. I took it to a couple of car shows and half the people just walk on by when they see the 352 decal on the air cleaner. It's a different story when it starts up though a bunch of people turn their heads LOL. My next project is putting a Yukon duragrip with 3.70s in it. It has open 3:1 gears now. Even with those highway gears it still throws you in the seat pretty good.

@@jaredcasner3117 It should work pretty good. It ran just fine with the 3.00 gears although when I rebuilt the cruise o Matic I took the torque converter to a local torque converter shop and had them cut it open and raise the stall speed to 2000-2200 but the cam should work fine with the stock converter. It's a really good running mild performance daily driver cam I added a power brake booster to it and it runs it just fine as well.

​@@MattsRageFitGarage Appreciate the response. I have a power booster and disc brake conversion already so thats good. I'll try it with the stock converter and trans for now. Worse case I'll pull it out and put a stall in when I reseal and rebuild the trans since it leaks like a sieve.

@@jaredcasner3117 Make sure you put some kind of sealant on the front pump bolts. I didn't and it weeps very slowly from the bell housing. Not enough to be an issue but pretty annoying. Nobody makes converters for FX or MX cruise o matics so finding a local toruqe converter shop is your best bet.

Thanks. It's sounding better all the time. I took it for a quick spin around the block tonight and it definitely has a lot of power.

That engine made someone's pants turn brown at a car show last fall. It was a big cruise in event, and I got there early, a whole line of cars behind me that weren't there when I pulled in and when I went to start this thing up there were a group of people sitting in their lawn chairs about 10 feet behind me and someone had screamed oh shit once I started it up like they had some kind of a panic attack. Granted the gas pedal was to the floor when it started but still Those are the same people that looked at the engine for a few seconds, saw it said 352 and kept on walking. Man, that is fun. Most of the people that walked past it were turning their heads when I was driving out. They must have thought it was some blubbering 352 that barely ran or something.

Yes, matching springs to go with the camshaft. I have some carb rejetting to but the engine makes a ton of power. Especially for stock intake and exhaust manifolds.

I remember when they where everywhere as well. Only thing I didn't like about them was the short opening hood on a Ford and that Ultra Heavy intake lol.

I've experimented quite a bit with the base timing. I've ran it anywhere from 8-14* BTDC and found 12-14* BTDC to be ideal. I get 13-14" vacuum at 700 RPM but this engine produces very high cranking compression. 200-210 PSI on a cold engine that hasn't run for a few days so that might have something to do with it.

Yes, originally a 352 4 barrel car. It sure pisses some people off a car shows, looks all stock but it's a bit of a different story when I fire it up. They probably think it's a turd just looking at it seeing the 352 badge on the air cleaner housing.

Yeah, stock manifolds I resurfaced on a large belt sander. I see no need for headers with this engine it makes a ton of power and revs to the redline really fast.

It was around 13-14 inches of vacuum at 600-700 RPM. I haven't checked it since. It's probably increased a little since the engine has gotten some miles on it.

I run it in pump 92 octane premium and it does pretty well. Really doesn't ping much unless I hold it floored on a hot day but I still have some secondary jetting and ignition curve tuning I could do. A bigger cam with more overlap would help. I wouldn't run it on anything less than premium at least until it gets some miles on it and loosens up.

Thanks for replying, thats what i needed to know. I think ill probably shoot for low-mid 9s with a similar cam. Mines going in a truck that will get heavily abused and fed garbage gas

@@trestonhadley5678 The original 352 was 9.3:1 compression and ran fine on 87 octane. If its iron heads I'd run it about 9.3 or so and use either this cam or an similar grind on a 112LSA if it's going into a truck. Definitely get the quench in the .040-.050 range. This engine has .040" quench and its thr only reason why it's as ping resistant as it is. I'm also using NGK AR6FS sparkplugs which cross reference to Autolite 124. They are a colder plug than the autolite 45s and NGK WR5 plugs commonly found for the FE engines and they have been working really well so far.

@@MattsRageFitGarage thanks for the tips. I think im gonna try the trickflow heads and a cam around 217 225, my theory is to do the big head small cam like the ls's do, and make about 430 hp on 87 octane. Its gonna be budget ish. Im already running a quickfuel 680 and headers on my 360 and it moves out pretty well. I cant imagine what this truck will be like if my plan plays out the way i want it to

@@trestonhadley5678 That should make a heck of an engine with the TFS heads. I have another FE engine in another 64 galaxie that's a 445 stroker with the standard Edelbrock performer RPM heads and a Comp 294S 248 duration @.050 .605 lift solid, 9.81 compression and man that thing is scary lol. If I had to do this 390 over again I'd just have bought the stroker kit for what it cost me to source all of the 390 stuff. Still happy with the 390 but it cost just as much as the stroker kit by the time I got done buying everything and having the machine work done.

310-330 hp is my guess. Torque should be about 425 or so.