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Each car was given a "KK" number which stood for Kar Kraft. KK #1201 was the first Boss 429 and KK #2558 was the last Boss 429 made. [5] However, sales started to drop off for the 1970 Boss 429 Mustangs and with higher production costs and other internal Ford problems, it was decided that 1970 would be the last year of the Boss 429.
The 429 was developed to replace the three largest FE-series V8s, the 390, 427, and 428. It shared its 4.36-inch bore with the 460, but was destroked to 3.59-inches. The engine was introduced in the 1968 Ford Thunderbird, and saw use across Ford and Mercury full-size, intermediate, and pony car product lines.
Boss is the internal name for a family of large-displacement V8 engines from Ford Motor Company intended to compete with Chrysler's Hemi and General Motors' 6.0 L Vortec engines. Originally named Hurricane , development of the engine was cancelled in 2005, then revived in early 2006 by Mark Fields [ 1 ] In light of the devastation caused by ...
In the 1950s, Ford introduced a three-tier approach to engines, with small, mid-sized, and larger engines aimed at different markets. All of Ford's mainstream V8 engines were replaced by the overhead cam Modular family in the 1990s and the company introduced a new large architecture, the Boss family, for 2010.
Named for the 1962 Ford Taunus V4 engine and Ford Cologne V6 engine built in Cologne, Germany. 1.2/1.3/1.5/1.7L were mostly in European Cars. 1.8, 2.0/2.3 had the same bellhousings bolt patterns with differences from year to year to be wary of.
One was equipped with the Boss 429 engine, only offered otherwise in the Boss 429 Mustang, one had the 429 SCJ, and one had a 429 CJ. [36] The Torino King Cobra with the Boss 429 has been listed on eBay as of May 3, 2014, with a "buy-it-now" price of $599,999 (~$760,700 in 2023).
The Ford 427 block was closer dimensionally to the smaller 392 cu. in. first generation Chrysler FirePower Hemi; the Ford FE's bore spacing was 4.63 in (117.6 mm) compared to the Chrysler 392's 4.5625 in (115.9 mm). The Ford FE's deck height of 10.17 in (258.3 mm) was lower than that of the Chrysler 392 at 10.87 in (276.1 mm).
Hurst produced aftermarket replacement manual transmission shifters and other automobile performance enhancing parts.. Hurst was also an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) supplier for automakers and provided services or components for numerous muscle car models by American Motors (AMC), Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors.