Anyone ever hear of a 289 police intercepter engine?

[Stevea]

I had a guy offer me a boat engine that he called an intercepter 289. Said they came out of a police car. I have bought a 428 intercepter engine before. Would there be any upgrades to something like this, or would it be just a plain jane 289?

[22GT]

No. Back in the 60's, the Police Specials were named by the engine they had. The Police Interceptor was equipped with the 428. The Police Deputy had a 6 cylinder. There were several in between, those are just the ones I remember. There was a 289 cop car, but it was Police Patrol or some such, not an Interceptor.

There are still Interceptors, but I have discovered that at least some of the Departments out here don't use them, because they rarely require high speeds. To save purchase and operating cost, they get the lower-powered version.

[JeffTepper]

IIRC the 289 was called the "Challenger V8" independent of any police applications

[dzahm]

Never heard of it- you mentioned boat engine- I do know some boats used car engines; but some had some weird stuff going on (like reverse rotation) and possibly water jackets that end up dumping into an exhaust manifold......

[dzahm]

Indeed- Marine interceptor engine-

[22GT]

…I do know some boats used car engines; but some had some weird stuff going on (like reverse rotation)
This was quite common in dual engine boats, the RH engine was RH rotation and the LH engine was LH rotation. This was done to eliminate torque steering, and to prevent torque from laying the boat to one side.

and possibly water jackets that end up dumping into an exhaust manifold
This was absolutely normal with virtually every V8 marine engine. Dry stack exhaust was the exception, and very rare. Usually confined to "Miami Vice" and extreme applications.

[Stevea]

It sounds like I should not waste my time going to look at it.

[CHOCK]

Was this fellow smoking a little skinny cigarette??

Dan

[bartl]

[geicoman58]

funny if you didnt go check it out and later found out it was a hipo......actually, not funny......how far away to go check it out?

[Stevea]

Originally Posted by geicoman58

funny if you didnt go check it out and later found out it was a hipo......actually, not funny......how far away to go check it out?

That's funny, I was thinking the same thing. About seven years ago I bought a 289 for $50 and cleaned it up and it was a hipo engine lol Sold the block for $1100!

[PonyDoc]

I got a call, back when I had the shop, from a boat yard wanting to sell a 289 out of a boat. Seems like someone in the yard knew the history and it turned out to be some famous race boat. Once I got there, they started looking closer and found stickers from Holman-Moody and called another engine expert. It was a 289 hi-po, and held some speed records from '66. They decided not to sell, or it would have wound up in my 64. Darn!

[Maxum96]

I bought a boat years ago that was powered by a Ford 260. And of course it had all the marine specific parts on it.