1978 302

Looking at a 78 302 for my Model A project. Anything different or not so good about this year engine?

Thanks

Stock, it's about as anemic as they get. But if you are tearing it down for a re-build, I see nothing wrong with it, especially if you are going with aftermarket heads and some other goodies.
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Can be good if built right. It's all about the combination... Is it standard or been punched out already. I pretty much have the same block (1980), but was very speciffic about how I wanted to drive the car which dictated what cam and other components to add.

What do you plan on using this in. Is that a Torino on your page.

Yep, It's a 68 Torino GT. The pic didn't come out to well. The 302 is going to go in my Model A Tudor that I'm restoring.

In it's stock form should be more than enough motor to move that old coach along. The cars don't weigh too much.

For performance, the 74-78 302 had a taller deck for less compression(pollution crap) than the earlier or later blocks. You can make it run great since I am running a '74 block also. If you are going to do some wheel stands, I would get a different block. It would be easier. A Model A "wheel stander" Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Actually the taller deck stopped in 1976..The 77-78 motors went back to the 8.206 deck hieght and got flat top pistons that were pretty much zero decked..To kill the compression for smog purposes they went to a gigantic combustion chamber in the heads...The nice thing is you can chuck the heads and bolt on some earlier stuff and get a very nice boost in compression..Early 289 heads put them at about 10.5 while later later 69-74 351 heads put them at about 10:1 with bigger valves to boot...My brother has one of these combinations.Great low buck engine.
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