Confused ?
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Confused ?
OK here goes . I rescued a FE engine from salvage lot , tore it down and I see
a X on the right side cylinder valley indicating possible better casting materials
used on this block ,,,, check casting number on block C7ME-A which indicate a 428 or 330 MD& HD block . I remove connecting rods and they are
marked C7TE-A which indicate 1967-77 330 engine . Pistons have cast markings 390 4V and are slipper skirt type,not marked oversize . Crank appears to be non FT from front shaft size .
The gaskets and bearings were ford items . Piston seems to measure 4.047
miked cold . Cylinder heads are C8AE-H .
From all this can I figure this is a FE or FT engine? And the size would be
a 390 ? 391? or ?
Oh and the coil tag ,,if it was the origional is stamped 360 68 2 FORD
8 A N 300 J
I used Steve Christ's ford engine book to figure what the part numbers
refer to and still are unsure of this engine size .
All I could find wrong was a few bent pushrods maybe indicating it was
upside down and maybe someone tried to restart it with fluid in the cylinders and thus the bent pushrods ?
Thanks .
a X on the right side cylinder valley indicating possible better casting materials
used on this block ,,,, check casting number on block C7ME-A which indicate a 428 or 330 MD& HD block . I remove connecting rods and they are
marked C7TE-A which indicate 1967-77 330 engine . Pistons have cast markings 390 4V and are slipper skirt type,not marked oversize . Crank appears to be non FT from front shaft size .
The gaskets and bearings were ford items . Piston seems to measure 4.047
miked cold . Cylinder heads are C8AE-H .
From all this can I figure this is a FE or FT engine? And the size would be
a 390 ? 391? or ?
Oh and the coil tag ,,if it was the origional is stamped 360 68 2 FORD
8 A N 300 J
I used Steve Christ's ford engine book to figure what the part numbers
refer to and still are unsure of this engine size .
All I could find wrong was a few bent pushrods maybe indicating it was
upside down and maybe someone tried to restart it with fluid in the cylinders and thus the bent pushrods ?
Thanks .
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Rusty, its a 360, I'll bet. Thats what the coil tag implies, and casting numbers can't entirely be trusted. Niether can Steve's book. The book is very good, but it doesn't list all the casting numbers possible. 360s were often assembled with pistons marked 390-4V. That making tells you that the pistons have a 1.75 pin hieght and flat tops, which is just the way 360s were set up when they left fords factory. Your C8 heads don't have hard seats and vavle seat recession is probably what caused the pushrods to bend. You can buy new pushrods, and the valveseats can be replaced, and you'll be good to go. DF
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Today before FE went to the machine shop I checked gap between the outside cylinder walls through the frost plug holes ,,,, a 13/64 bit would go but a 17/64 drill bit for a 390 block would not fit between ,,,,,, so maybe could this be a 428 block and thus been bored only for a 360 ? Thanks .
