We comb through a fair few engine swaps and restomods, so suffice to say, not everything that comes across our desk is noteworthy or even worth mentioning. Oh, another LS-swap or Coyote swap? Yawn.

In 1958, Ford introduced its new FE series of V8 engines (short for Ford-Edsel) to replace the short-lived Y-block — itself a replacement for the truly antiquated flathead V8s. The FE was a tremendous ...