I actually know the exact date this story began. It was July 4th 2013, that’s right
this year. It was afternoon and all the
family was gone except my dad so I decided to hang out with him all day. It’s better than sleeping all day. So anyways I went over there are we started
up our usual conversations on the rangers how the cowboys are going to look
this year and how Johnny football will do his second year in? During these conversations the velocity
channel was on T.V. The Mecum auto
auction was on and we paused long enough to watch a real BOSS 429 mustang sell
for almost half a million dollars. And
by real I mean they showed the K.K. number on the door. K.K. stood for Kar Kraft. It was a shop in dearborne Mich. where all the BOSS 429 mustangs were
built. It took this shop to do it because
they pretty much had to liquefy the engine and then poor it under the
hood. But this sparked my dad’s interests. He asked me what was the difference between
the BOSS engine and the 429 SCJ engine was.
Well any mediocre ford man can answer that. The first visible difference is the
heads. But I had to dig deeper. There was no way that it was this easy. Just put a set of original BOSS 9 heads on a
429 or 460 block. Well of course it wasn’t
that easy cause ford in all there infinite wisdom built this special block only
for two years. This block looking
identical on the outside to the 385 series engine, was not. It had a reinforced bottom end, a dry deck
and also two oil holes cast into the block to oil the rocker shafts. So I knew right off the bat that finding an
original 69 or 70 BOSS 9 block was out of my hands. Even if I did find one there was no way I
could afford it without righting a contract that guaranteed, my first born
child. So I decided to research the
heads maybe I can spend the money for a set of real BOSS heads and just modify
an old 460 block. Well after weeks of
research this turned up as a major ball ache.
I mean you have to drill and tap the heads for an oil line that you have
to tap into the block and blah blah blah.
So, then I started searching for
a set of aftermarket BOSS style heads.
What I stumbled upon was John Kaase Racing in Georgia. This guy builds a set of heads that look identical
to the BOSS heads in 69. But he built
them as a direct bolt on to a non-BOSS block.
The drain back holes match up to the ones he cast into the heads. The valve train is oil by the push tubes not
the rocker shaft. You can use the
original 460 head gasket and the original 460 push tubes. Now you do have to by a BOSS intake and
headers or exhaust manifolds. So now the
big shocker the price. For a complete
Kaase BOSS 9 top end is 7 grand. Yea
that sounds like a bunch but compared to finding an original BOSS 9 engine it
is quite reasonable. So I have started
saving for the engine. Now the next
question you are 2 people that are reading this are wondering. What is it going in? Yea I could find a 69 mustang and build a
knock off BOSS but why? Why do what everyone
else is doing? So that’s right it is
going in the 67 galaxie. I want a shock factor
at the car shows when they look at it and see a boss motor. So this is the first leg in the journey of
the BOSS.
