Usage
| Small Block | Medium Block | Big Block | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spacing | Displacement | AKA | Spacing | Displacement | AKA | Spacing | Displacement | AKA | ||
| 4.38" | 239 in³ | Y-Block | 4.63" | 332 in³ | FE | 4.90" | 383 in³ | MEL | ||
| 4.38" | 272 in³ | Y-Block | 4.63" | 352 in³ | FE | 4.90" | 410 in³ | MEL | ||
| 4.38" | 292 in³ | Y-Block | 4.63" | 360 in³ | FE | 4.90" | 430 in³ | MEL | ||
| 4.38" | 312 in³ | Y-Block | 4.63" | 390 in³ | FE | 4.90" | 462 in³ | MEL | ||
| 4.38" | 221 in³ | Windsor | 4.63" | 406 in³ | FE | 4.90" | 429 in³ | 385-series | ||
| 4.38" | 260 in³ | Windsor | 4.63" | 410 in³ | FE | 4.90" | 460 in³ | 385-series | ||
| 4.38" | 289 in³ | Windsor | 4.63" | 427 in³ | FE | |||||
| 4.38" | 302 in³ | Windsor | 4.63" | 428 in³ | FE | |||||
| 4.38" | 351 in³ | Windsor | 4.63" | 361 in³ | FT | |||||
| 4.38" | 351 in³ | Cleveland | 4.63" | 391 in³ | FT | |||||
| 4.38" | 351 in³ | Cleveland M | ||||||||
| 4.38" | 400 in³ | Cleveland M | ||||||||
FE series engines powered many vehicles; cars, trucks, buses, boats, industrial pumps and racing vehicles. Ford produced the engine from 1958 and ceased production in 1976. The aftermarket has continued to support the engine with replacement parts as well as many newly engineered and improved components.
In Ford vehicles, the FE primarily powered midsize cars and trucks. In the Ford engine hierarchy of the time it served as Ford's medium block with the larger 385 series engine used as needed in larger vehicles. The 385 series engine, as well as the larger displacements of the Windsor and Cleveland engines eventually replaced the FE when it was discontinued in 1976.
Some of the models in which the FE was installed:
Ford Galaxie, Ford Fairlane, Ford Mustang, Ford Thunderbird - 3rd generation, Ford Thunderbird - 4th generation, Ford LTD, Ford Torino, Ford Ranchero, Ford Talledega, Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt, and Ford trucks to name a few.
In addition to its use in Ford branded vehicles, the FE was also sold to third parties for use in their own products such as buses, boats and agricultural equipment.
Ford regularly made updates to the design of the FE which appear as engineering codes or variations in casting numbers of parts. In addition to production casting codes, Ford also made use of "SK" and "XE" numbers if the parts were one-off or developmental designs not approved for production. Many parts attached to Ford's racing engines carried SK and XE numbers.
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