[DeTomaso] Ford 392 rev limit?

[cengles at cox.net]

Dear Mike,


You wrote:



  "Ford crate engines, like the Pantera, are 'built to a price' and 
typically
  won't put up with the same level of abuse as a professionally built 
engine
  of nominally similar characteristics, because there are corners cut
everywhere, such as cast vs. forged cranks, rods, mild valvetrain and 
cam specs,
  etc...."


FWIW: on the Speed Talk website Engine Forum, the professional 
machinists and engine builders have commented that the factory crate 
engines have been found to have, ahem, factory seconds used as parts. 
It is perhaps not in all the engines, but it has happened often enough 
that the pros have commented on it.



Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles