1960 Ford Galaxie Sunliner 352/360 High Performance
Real/Rare with top 352ci/360hp Hi-PO engine option along with the year correct options which the car came with, like the 3/8" fuel line, which makes it quite unique (see article below for more info).
- 3speed with overdrive, 456 posi rear end,
- New tires, exhaust system, new interior, convertible top cover. Nicely restored.
- Rust-free, original paint with buffed patina
- 0D55Y129935 -Rebuilt engine, blueprinted and balanced.
- Ready to Drive! by Joe -Ford-originalist, fast car enthusiast
Sunliner is even more rare than the Starliner:
"Per HotRod Magazine Tom Shaw Writer Jul 31, 2015
Super-Rare Superstar: 1960 Ford Starliner 360hp High-Performance V-8
Super-Sweet Starliner Packs the Rare Top-Option Engine
The 352/360hp Fords have some quirks. There was no exterior badging for a 352/360hp car. They share the same engine code as the 300hp 352—both are Y—a fake-car-builder's dream, but good luck finding parts. Hi-Po 352s came only with the three-speed manual transmission, though you could also get your three-speed with overdrive.
All the 352/360hp cars got electric windshield wipers (no vacuum). To avoid passing too close to the redesigned exhaust manifolds, brake lines were routed across the top rear of the lower radiator support instead of across the crossmember beneath the engine."
Hi-Po cars got heavy-duty, 3-inch-wide front brakes, a 3-inch driveshaft, and heavy-duty suspension (heavy-duty front springs, five-leaf rear springs, heavy-duty shocks, and a 0.62-inch front stabilizer bar). They also got different wheels from the rest of the standard production Fords, but there is mystery there too.
The 352 High Performance, as it is commonly known from the decal affixed to the gold-painted valve covers, was a breakthrough engine, featuring significant improvements in components not customarily addressed in high-performance engines.
The big standard-issue breather found on Ford engines was junked in favor of a simple, round, open-element breather. This cut weight and provided a much larger, 360-degree point of entry for incoming air.
Ford used a square-bore Holley 4160 with side-pivot bowls, vacuum secondaries, and automatic choke. The carburetor's cfm rating was not listed in the AMA specs, but our friends at Holley checked the original specs and found that the cfm rating was 540. The intake manifold was a low-rise, dual-plane, cast-aluminum unit rather than cast iron, shaving the engine's weight by about 40 pounds. One other easy-to-overlook upgrade to the fuel system was larger, 3/8-inch fuel line replacing the standard 5/16-inch line in all other passenger cars.
Cylinder heads had a specific casting identified by a D suffix. The heads had upgrades, but nothing radical. Port and valve sizes were unchanged, but combustion chamber volume was reduced, bumping up compression a full point, from 9.6:1 to 10.6:1. Exhaust valves were upgraded from cast to forged steel, valve springs were upgraded with greater closed tension and a damper, and rockers were adjustable.
The block was standard two-bolt 352 production, as was the cast iron crank, though HotRod's Dec. 1959 issue reports that rod and main bearing tolerances were loosened up a bit for better oil flow. Pistons and crankshaft were standard production cast iron, but the rods were forged.
A big part of the horsepower boost came from the cam. In the interest of higher rpm, solid lifters were used, and duration and lift were bumped to 306(276 correction Joe) degrees and 0.479-inch, respectively. Valve spring tension was increased. A damper inside the outer coil was added. Ford changed valve springs during the 1960 production due to reports of valve float.
.Distributor was a Ford dual-point unit with no vacuum advance, and plug wires had steel cores with no radio suppression. There was no law mandating it in those days.
One of the best parts of the engine were the individual-tube cast iron exhaust manifolds, known today as shorty manifolds. were a huge improvement over the terribly restrictive logs that other FE engines were stuck with. .manifolds were carried over to the next year's 390 High Performance and Police Interceptor engines.
These were aggressive advancements for their time, although not nearly as those found in engine packages that were soon to come. The 352 High Performance worked its magic with a fairly modest equipment list—no multiple carbs, aluminum heads, high-riser intake, steel crank, forged pistons, sodium-filled valves, or electronic ignition. .....But for those who knew it was on the option list, the 352 High Performance vaulted the 1960 Ford far beyond what was previously possible.
The 352 began life in 1958 as a tame V-8, despite its increased displacement. This version put it on a different trajectory and foreshadowed other mighty FE-family engines to come, among them the 406, 427, and 428 Cobra Jet." by Tom Shaw 7/2015
