240/300 head compatibility?
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240/300 head compatibility?
Forgive me if this has been asked before, but will the 300 head work on a 240 block? If so, it'll make things much easier for me toward getting my '66 Falcon Club Wagon back on the road, this coming year. If not, I'll continue my search for a 300, albeit a more broad (possibly more successful) search that includes carbureted versions, rather than my currently narrow EFI 300 search.
Also, would it be too extreme to combine the Clifford Performance triple Weber intake with the Weber 48 DCOE-style throttle bodies from Redline Weber? I'll be looking for some more performance out of whatever engine ends up in my Club Wagon (including a 300 head on the 240, if possible), but it's bascially going to be mostly a street/highway cruiser with the occasional duty of towing my '80 Pinto wagon to All-Ford shows.
Then again, I'm also planning to find a 1960-1964 F-100 into which I'll swap everything possible from my '91 F-150, so it's possible I may need to recruit a friend (or 2) to help me get my toys to the All-Ford shows, and not have to do any towing.
Also, would it be too extreme to combine the Clifford Performance triple Weber intake with the Weber 48 DCOE-style throttle bodies from Redline Weber? I'll be looking for some more performance out of whatever engine ends up in my Club Wagon (including a 300 head on the 240, if possible), but it's bascially going to be mostly a street/highway cruiser with the occasional duty of towing my '80 Pinto wagon to All-Ford shows.
Then again, I'm also planning to find a 1960-1964 F-100 into which I'll swap everything possible from my '91 F-150, so it's possible I may need to recruit a friend (or 2) to help me get my toys to the All-Ford shows, and not have to do any towing.
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The 240 head will fit on the 300, and will raise the compression. So if the 240 head fits on the 300, the 300 head should fit on the 240, but will lower the compression that the 240 used to have. Their the same motors, the 300 is just a stroked 240. Since you want performence, and you already have the head off the engine, you could get it worked, its restrictive.
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The Falcons came out with the small block six, which were 170 CID, 200 CID, and 250 CID. The 300 and 240 sixes are the big block sixes, which use the same block. The 300 was never put into a car from the factory. The only cars that the 240 was put into were the full size Custom 500, which was the stripped down version of the LTD. It would take a lot of fabrication to put a 240 or 300 in a Falcon. The small block six has the intake manifold as part of the same casting as the head. On the 240 and 300 sixes, the intake manifold is removable from the head.
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If that Big Block Inline I-6 is already Shoehorned into that Falcon, more Power to you, but if it's not, it'd be more trouble than it's worth. 
Especially if you wish to lower your compression by putting a 300c.i.er head on a 240c.ier block, It just doesn't make sense.
Now a B&B'd 200c.i.er w/ a P&P'd 170c.i.er head w/ Offenhauser Intake & Tri-Pak w/ 1902 Holleys or Supercharged, w/ a 2-into-2 Header & Glass Paks would be a rather Sweet Little Sleeper.
Especially if you wish to lower your compression by putting a 300c.i.er head on a 240c.ier block, It just doesn't make sense.
Now a B&B'd 200c.i.er w/ a P&P'd 170c.i.er head w/ Offenhauser Intake & Tri-Pak w/ 1902 Holleys or Supercharged, w/ a 2-into-2 Header & Glass Paks would be a rather Sweet Little Sleeper.
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Okay, thanks to those that gave me the heads-up about lowering the compression of my 240, if I simply put a 300 head on it. With that out of the way, would parts for the 300 (namely the intake manifold) swap onto the 240? I figure of the good stuff'll work on my 240, it'll be worth keeping it around, rather than replace it with a 300.
And for those that don't know, of have forgotten since they were new, the Falcon Club Wagon is a van, not a car, although it's nothing more than a fancyfied Econoline window van that Ford marketed in their Falcon line, right alongside the coupes, sedans, station wagons and Rancheros. Being derived from the Econoline as it is, if the Econolines had the 240 inline 6 available as an option, so too did the Falcon Club Wagons. Alas, the 300 wasn't released until the Falcon Club Wagon met its demise of ending with the 1967 model year. Ford dropped the trucks from their Econoline line, dropped the Falcon Club Wagon from the Falcon line, and as we all know, a Club Wagon is still nothing more than a fancyfied Econoline.
And for those that don't know, of have forgotten since they were new, the Falcon Club Wagon is a van, not a car, although it's nothing more than a fancyfied Econoline window van that Ford marketed in their Falcon line, right alongside the coupes, sedans, station wagons and Rancheros. Being derived from the Econoline as it is, if the Econolines had the 240 inline 6 available as an option, so too did the Falcon Club Wagons. Alas, the 300 wasn't released until the Falcon Club Wagon met its demise of ending with the 1967 model year. Ford dropped the trucks from their Econoline line, dropped the Falcon Club Wagon from the Falcon line, and as we all know, a Club Wagon is still nothing more than a fancyfied Econoline.
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well here it is a fresh remnufactured to new spec cylinder head. good price to 236.00 http://www.rebuilt-auto-car-engines....-hd156010.html i have dealt with this company 20 times from engines ot cylinder heads. top notch.
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Originally Posted by ford390gashog
try this place. www.rebuilt-auto-car-engines.com
For those still not paying attention, the 240-6 was already IN my Club Wagon when I bought it, and was there when it rolled off the Loraine, Ohio assembly line. I'm not trying to upgrade from a small inline 6, as many of you are suggesting is what I'm trying to do. And for the last time, A FALCON CLUB WAGON IS A VAN, NOT A CAR!
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they also have rebuilt 240's i think they were 1,200.00. i installed one of their 300's in a water pump on a farm about 3 years ago. it runs strong and gets used for months on end non stop.
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The 300 head have larger combustion chambers than the 240 head, mean you will LOWER the compression on your 240 if you put the 300 head on it. If you put a 240 head on a 300 it lill raise the compression.
Originally Posted by Schmids4.9l
The 240 head will fit on the 300, and will raise the compression. So if the 240 head fits on the 300, the 300 head should fit on the 240, but will lower the compression that the 240 used to have. Their the same motors, the 300 is just a stroked 240. Since you want performence, and you already have the head off the engine, you could get it worked, its restrictive.
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Thats what I said.. direct quotes from me-
"The 240 head will fit on the 300, and will raise the compression"
"the 300 head should fit on the 240, but will lower the compression that the 240 used to have"
"The 240 head will fit on the 300, and will raise the compression"
"the 300 head should fit on the 240, but will lower the compression that the 240 used to have"
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