Know this Buying engines

Looking to buy a Ford powerplant to either rebuild or drop straight in to your next project? Read this first.

You can’t deny it, almost everyone buys a classic Ford with thoughts in their head about planning an engine swap to improve performance. The thought of a classic Ford with something big, bad and screaming under the bonnet is just way too tempting a idea not to do look into doing. Plus, in the majority of cases, it’s by far the quickest and cheapest route to getting bigger power figures to the rear wheels. The clincher though, is that there’s a serious wealth of available engines out there to choose from too. From the classic selection of units (Essex, Kents, Pintos) to the list of modern, electronic, start on the button every time motors (Zetecs, Duratecs), virtually everything is acceptable — even the occasional Vauxhall motor! There is a downside…

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