The Ford 4.6l is huge! It has enormous deck height thanks to the fact that it has the same stroke as a 427 big block! It's a huge engine in physical size because of the enormous heads and large stroke. The LS2 is tiny compared to it. The mod motor also quiet heavy.

 

Sorry, I was thinking Norway was part of the EC, if it was, the goventment cannot charge you any more taxes if taxes have been paid in an EC country. it is called "The freedom of movement of goods/services" act!!!

Find the country in the EC with the lowest import duties / vat and import your car to there!

 

Actually Norway is an associated member of the EC, and part of the four freedoms (with certain exeptions). But you still can't export car freely in between EC, yet. Denmark, for example, has even higher taxes on cars than Norway, and they are full members.

I know there is movement in Bruxelles to equalize all taxation on cars, but it will still take several years until this will take effect. However, when the law has been ratified, it will also be valid in Norway.

Sorry for highjacking the tread. :P

 

Well it is wide, but it really aint that tall or long. The 4.6 was developed as a FWD and RWD engine and from what I understand the FWD requirement hobbled it somewhat. Still though it is a really nice engine (despite my rants about cylinder heads and valvetrain).

A state of the art 5.0 pushrod motor would have been nice.

Something along these lines would have been real sweet.

A siamesed 4.00" bore aluminum block designed for a max stroke of 3.00", raise the cam and lower the deck and make it a Y block like the 4.6.

Lop .090 off the connecting rod and push the pin and ring package up further on the piston for an even lower deck height)

All that so you could design some killer heads with nice high intake and exhaust ports, dump the distributor and drive the oil pump off of the crank. that way you wont have to compromise the intake manifold.

oh well, again back to reality.

 

Yes the mod motor was designed for fwd use originally. I am aware.