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The cammer is about 2" longer then the standard FE because of the cam covers.

As far as a Tunnel port being rare. Sure but since they were the last in the line of the performance developments for the FE, they were run quite late into NASCAR.

I certainly remember them in the '72 season. The rules were changed limiting engines to 5.7 instead of 7 liters and the 351C's replaced them.

The side oiler block was just the 427 service block since 67-8.

The tunnel port is a really neat engine and simpler to deal with then the HR, but a 427MR would do.

Any of them are 500hp out of the box and respond to performance modifications.

I see the angle on the axles. With camera angles and such things, it's hard to tell how far back the drivetrain was moved. I'd guess 2".

No matter to any of this. Yours is a very cool car.

The Cleveland and the 427 both basically have the same red line 7,000. In fact the 427 has to be more strictly restricted then the C does.

A solid lifter C is at least a 7,200 rpm engine.

The 7 is not without modifying the bottom end for reliability at high rpm.

I know Ron is going to disagree because he raced them but the overwhelming feeling is that #7 & 8 will have oiling problems at high rpm unless modified.

The big buck guys now run that set up with Chevy titanium connecting rods with 2.1" rod journels. All of a sudden the thing is an 8,500 rpm engine that way.

The cammer most likely would have bulkhead problems in the Pantera and I don't know if that is fixable at all.