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Evening all. I picked this up today. Let me know if the pics don't work. She's an early dentside F250 4x4, commonly called the 'Highboy' option. She has a 351C and manual trans, lots of rust in the floors and a fairly clean engine compartment.

Ba front end is in Sent from my ATU-L22 using Tapatalk

That's an 09/74 XB panelvan engine block. My 11/74 XB panelvan's VIN, starts with JG45PA.

Any battery made in Australia is a century battery. No other company manufactures batteries here

And a 255 (3.68 bore) 260 (3.8 bore) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"its fixed n fxxk does it haul arse" after an explanation like that Dave he is probably out running the blue lights somewhere between borders from vic to qld on the covert 2020 run haha hmm maybe I should give him my outback to wake it up a bit

Yeah roger that. I didn't think it was a 400, looks just like a regular-deck 351 to me. The heads look to be standard 351 castings too. EDIT: Just ran the engine number, it is apparently a September '74 date of production destined for a Falcon 500 Van.

Thanks mate, and yeah interesting setup. The engine number is as follows, I get JG45PB - 41814K. Chassis number below for reference. Interesting find on the rear axle code, though, it apparently is listed for a 1975 1/2 F250 4x2 pickup. Maybe this whole thing is a conversion? Wow.

That’s very similar to mine dean. My sedan has some chrome under the bonnet so I got it made out of stainless as I couldn’t weld stainless at the time. I made my ute one out of mild steel and painted it white [emoji1303]

Oh those gauges are awesome.! Tell me you're keeping them...

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Just make a nice streetable 302. http://www.mustangandfords.com/how-to/engine/28898-400-hp-302-small-block/

thankyou to all who responded and thanks Mr Polson for your input this input is what makes this site great now as both batteries are starting to get a bit old bit like me lol I will replace both before I start to wander off. still have to do some mods to the old jap to improve my comfort an self containment yet cheers Demmo

Fun fact - the current range of FORD Motorcraft batteries, are also made by Century. (just with Motorcraft stickers)

I prefer the look of the XG unless the XH is an XR6 or 8. Either way they are both equally as nice to drive.

block only needs a bit of notching, I could clearance it with a burr, or just get it milled it while machining the rest of the engine, 347W also saw this while I looked up stroker clearance

The first Windsor blocks (221/260/289) can theoretically be stroked with the 2M crank from the 302 but the pistons will stick out the bottom of the bores slightly at BDC. Hardly worth worrying about that minor issue but also hardly worth bothering with as Thom said, pre-65 blocks are 5-bolt and rare as anyway. On the subject of the 255, they only made them for 2 miserable years in the 80s (I think 81-82) then they gave up on that dead-end. I think they were good for something like 120 HP. But GM were doing the same thing with the SBC so Ford can't cop too much flak from it. This short production run makes them extremely rare, and pretty much irrelevant now. Sent from my CPH1920 using Tapatalk

255 was a smog era us engine, I'd be surprised if there was any over here, apparently there's not a lot of parts interchangeability with regular 8.2 deck Windsors, but I've only ever read about those

The 255 has a 3" stroke like the 302 but the crank is a lot lighter, the crank pins are semi-hollow and the counterweights are smaller. Racers in speedway stock classes used to hunt around wreckers for these cranks because they had a lower rotating mass. They could break more easily too but racing is about breaking stuff to win Sent from my CPH1920 using Tapatalk

221 260 and 289 all share the same stroke, the biggest problem with 221's and 260's is the small bore size doesn't let you get a decent size valve without being shrouded/running into the bore, the other problem with 221's and 260's is most them are of the 5 bolt bellhousing variety

knox it out with a small punch,then a tad of sealant to fill the tiny hole and thats it

It's pulled apart, I'm doing a Ba front xmember an brake conversion Sent from my ATU-L22 using Tapatalk

I think you'd put on it whatever the LS crowd uses on their conversions... Plenty of different turbos kicking around and yeah, I'd go reversed manifolds into a big single mounted on the passenger side (opposite the battery) to simplify plumbing. You could go underfloor but that has its own issues of drain back, etc and ground clearance on a Falcon would be a hassle. That would be a hoot but the cost will go way beyond just the conversion. Even with a conservative amount of boost, you'd be knocking on the door of 600hp. I reckon you'd pop the borgy diff, even if it is a 28-spline 4-pinion. I think a built 9" would have to happen. Sent from my CPH1920 using Tapatalk

I'd go turbo & make more power then either supercharger kit

4 blocked injectors, its fixed n fxxk does it haul arse Sent from my ATU-L22 using Tapatalk