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Old Aug 3, 2013 | 10:32 PM
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they are identical heads so no easy upgrade there.

You can run early heads to gain compression if you must.

putting in larger CJ valves and bowl blending as well as working the exhaust side helps on any of the big block heads.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2021 | 03:58 AM
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Scrape off the rust and other crap and you'll see that those heads actually say D3VE-A2A. The other info regarding these heads is more or less correct.


pretty sure they say D8ve

 
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Old Jun 6, 2021 | 06:07 PM
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no such thing as a D8VE head. D3 with bad casting. Typical on the 460 truck engines that were all D3VE
 
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Old Jun 6, 2021 | 06:08 PM
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and for the record, I have actually seen a set of "D8VE" heads that had an actual casting date of 1974. If you know anything about Fords numbering system you would know that is not possible thus they had to be D3VE heads.

The only way to find out the actual year is to check the date casting code.

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Not possible to have a D8VE with a 1974 casting date. That alone proves they are D3 not D8
 
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