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May 27, 2008 | 12:33 AM

jgheid

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FE engine dated

I just brought home the firs FE engine I've ever ownd and was hoping to get any info on it I could. I'm sure it has been rebiult (there is a tag). but the #'s I found are this.

Intake:C5AE 9425C
Head:C4AE
Timing cover:C3AE-6059-A
Block: need help here, I know there all almost the same but are is there any thing to look for to date this block or to find out if it has 4 bolt mains.

The tag I found reads like this

160377
TAM ENG CORP
Tacoma WA

any one ever hear of them. I will look it up right now.

May 27, 2008 | 05:30 AM

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Date code should be below the oil filter adapter. If it has crossbolt mains you'll see three bolts on each side of the block above the oil pan rail. Look below at the other recent threads about date codes and how to read them. If your not sure post what you have.

May 27, 2008 | 05:43 PM

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C = 1960s
3,4,5 = 1963,'64,'65

Parts produced in '63 might have carried into subsequent years.

TAM Engineering Corp, in Tacoma WA, was an authorized Ford engine rebuilder. Engines were called "a TAM rebuild". My dad went down there and got a rebuilt 292 for his '58 F600. It was supposed to be the "Gold Crown" or heavier truck engine with sodium cooled valves and who knows what else. While it ran fine and gave years of faithful service, it proved to be a standard car engine when pulled down in the 1980s....

I can't find much about TAM via a google search. There are some references talking about the Ford link dating back into the 1940s, a comment about enviro methods in place from 1997, then reference to the location as vacant, (along with a lot of old buildings in "Nalley Valley" in Tacoma), and finally reference as part of a superfund site by the EPA.

I remember the Nalley company signs from our trip down there--a nearly all day round trip in the pre-freeway days of 1960 or so. (75 or so miles round trip)

May 27, 2008 | 06:28 PM

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well, the easiest way to find out what it is, and be sure is to pull the heads and measure the bore and stroke,

strokes
360/352= 3.5"
390=3.75"
410/428=3.98"

May 28, 2008 | 12:08 AM

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Fe's are a real mystery motor to id as far as nailing the displacement is concerned. Casting numbers usually won't tell you "jack" about what you acually have. Sometimes you can if the motor is virgin or somebody put it back together with the parts it came with. But even that's a crap shoot. I have found that pulling the oil pan and measure from piston skirt to piston skirt for your bore. To find your stroke, carfully put a stick/thin rod through the spark plug hole, turn the motor and measure the difference. Use this method if you want to keep the engine together and don't plan on rebuilding it. If not, go ahead and pull the heads. All Fe's had two bolt mains except for the 427 which had cross bolt main bolts through the bottom of the skirt. Some none-427 blocks had all the bosses for them, some would skip a main or two, kinda weird.