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a little confused
i pulled a 351w out of a van conversion (fancy interior) the engine was fuel injected. it now sets between the frame rails of my 1957 ford pickup. anyhow today i wanted to get the casting code off the block so i remove the starter and it reads E4AE now that leeds me to believe its a 84 engine but i didn't think ford put fuel injection on 351 windsors until 88? can any one tell me I'm not nuts
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That's the casting numbers, not the actual date the block was cast. Many Ford parts were used for several years in production without any change to the casting numbers. The E7TE heads are a case in point, these were in production for 11 years. Look at the date code to see when the block was actually cast.
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It's a number/letter/number combination next to the casting numbers on a small block. The first number is the year of the decade it was cast The decade is determined by the first character of the casting number, which is "E" for the 1980's in your case. The letter is the month code, starting with "A" for January thru "M" for December, skipping the letter "I". The last number(s) is the day of the month that past was cast.
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all of the numbers,letters cast on the block are E4AE-6015-FA19 and below that there is a smaller casting that reads 8019. I'm also trying to determine if i can convert this block to a roller without using the retro fit hydraulic roller
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That's probably 8/D/19, which would make it April 19, 1988. You can convert it to roller using hydraulic link bar lifters from several mfg's. These lifters aren't cheap, but allow you to use any std base circle 302/5.0 hyd roller cam and they can always be reused later in another motor with another cam.
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thanks so much for the help, I'm a little disappointed i can't run the stock hydraulic lifters oh well link bar lifters it is.
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You can use the O.E. hydraulic rollers, but then your cam choices are limited to the reduced base circle cams. I'm not sure about pushrod lengths with either route, that's something else you'll need to look into. If it were me, I'd go with the link bar lifters. The cost to do so must also be considered with the cam failures with flat tappets that has become commonplace in the past 10-15 years. Today it's still a crap shoot breaking in a flat tappet cam
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you hit it on the nose, thats what my machine shop I'm using said about the flat tappets but he said i might be able to use the O.E. rollers but neglected to tell me id be limited in me choices, so thanks for the insight.it will be money well spent, i've had that 1957 ford sense i was 16 and I'm 57 now so it be handed down to one of my boys one day but not until i have more fun with it first!
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