Ford 385 engine

The Ford 385 is a family of big-block overhead-valve V8 engines that Ford introduced in 1968 and built at its Lima, Ohio engine plant until 1998. The name comes from the 3.85-inch stroke of the 460 cubic-inch engine, and a 429 cubic-inch version arrived the same year, with a 370 cubic-inch variant added in 1977. It replaced the MEL engine and several medium-block FE engines, and it was fitted across all three Ford divisions in full-size cars, intermediates, pony cars and muscle cars, then in trucks and vans as the cars were downsized. The 385 was the last big-block V8 Ford designed in the twentieth century; the overhead-cam Triton V10 replaced it after the 1998 model year.