Well, I bought it!! homade, you're right, good things do come from leaving the place for something. I went and bought the 429 today and when we got it home, we took off the valve covers and you could eat out of them. It has DOVE C heads on it and the trans fluid is RED and clean. Of course, I'm goin to change it, and put in a shift kit. I'm lookin for a aluminum 4 bbl intake for it, and I want a set of early FE Mercury valve covers. I'm goin to cut out the stamped part that says "Mercury" and weld them into a stock set of valve covers. For $300, I think that I got a good deal for the motor/trans driveshaft and all the accesories. It turns over real good, but I did not try to start it, cause it has alot of crap on the carb (mud dauber's nest and such)

Anyway, I just wanted to tell you guys about my good fortune Bigger is better!!! I get 10 mpg's now, I figure I can still get that and have tons of power too although, I'm plannin on using this engine in my '56 panel truck. See yall in PF

 

outstanding news..!!

Sam

 

Thanks Sam, I'm pretty happy with it, now I just need time to work on the panel truck

 

Congrads on the score! Should push a panel through the air without breaking a sweat.
See you in PF.
brian...

 

The early (1961/64) Mercury FE valve covers are rounded, with M E R C U R Y in block letters marked on them.

These individual block letters are 2" long, and rounded. I doubt this is what you want.

What you prolly want are 1965/67 valve covers off 390 (1965/67) / 410/428 (1966/67) engines that have Powered by Mercury marked on them.

 

Terry,

Great news!! sounds like a good deal to me.
Thats exaclty what I did with my valve covers. I cut up a set of early 50's Caddy valve covers and fit, and welded them to the tops of my valve covers. When you do this keep in mind the oil fill cap. Mine is the type with the two ears and you give it a twist to lock it in place. I had to cut a large enough hole and round over the edges of the new welded on piece to clear the cap. The cap then hit on the valve cover due to the new thickness of the cover (the new cover did not site flush to the original valve cover due to the stampings on the new cover). So, I had to carefully take off some material on the underside of the oil fill cap to get the clearance.

I'm not sure I described this very well, if I confused you let me know and I'll try to get some pics of what I'm talking about.

Bobby

 

Hey thanks guys. Number Dummy you're exactly right those are the ones that I want and Bobby, I do understand what your'e talkin about. Thanks for the heads up.

See yall later