Big Block: How Ford’s 385 Engine Series Evolved Over Its Lifetime

The car modding community still holds the Ford 385 big-block V8 in high regard, and it’s still a go-to unit for a swap even many years after it was discontinued. The 385 engine, also known as ‘Lima,’ was one of the biggest engines built by Ford between 1968 and 1997. The Blue Oval launched this engine as a replacement for the Ford MEL (Mercury Edsel Lincoln) engine, which had been phased out in 1967, almost a decade after it

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