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I haven't worked that one out yet

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Nah it deserves a strip down and clean up tomorrow will continue on and gut it I reckon it's STD bore and really only bought it for the crank and rods for my other engine as ordering them from the states would have cost about $900 on USA e bay maybe more because posting a crank weighs heaps and just not worth it,will just sell the block if it's STD bore ,heads too,manifold ain't worth anything

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Lunch time and yup it's STD bore fak pistons but 020 on the big ends only got 1 out so far and had a double roller chain so someone has rebuilt it before

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Lunch time and yup it's STD bore fak pistons but 020 on the big ends only got 1 out so far and had a double roller chain so someone has rebuilt it before

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That's right, forgot about Dearborn. So that's at least 4 casting plants they had back then... Windsor is straight across the river from Dearborn, but in Canada.

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Well at least it had green sht in it at some stage, water jacket might be ok.

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Michigan Casting Centre, Cleveland Foundry and..... ?

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The lid n balancer is off interesting note all clevo manifolds USA anyway seem to have the cf cast mark but 3 different locations for block casting

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How do they go with adapting 351W stroker cranks to these blocks? Same bearing size, the only difference I think is something to do with the snout where the timing gear goes?

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Nah it deserves a strip down and clean up tomorrow will continue on and gut it I reckon it's STD bore and really only bought it for the crank and rods for my other engine as ordering them from the states would have cost about $900 on USA e bay maybe more because posting a crank weighs heaps and just not worth it,will just sell the block if it's STD bore ,heads too,manifold ain't worth anything

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Nah it deserves a strip down and clean up tomorrow will continue on and gut it I reckon it's STD bore and really only bought it for the crank and rods for my other engine as ordering them from the states would have cost about $900 on USA e bay maybe more because posting a crank weighs heaps and just not worth it,will just sell the block if it's STD bore ,heads too,manifold ain't worth anything

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Could that be an old Accel? US Fords would have had a Motorcraft coil, Aussie ones Bosch.

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should have just stuck some oil in it and fired it up. 
 

It's the original autolite coil that the motor was built with.

Well said gerg,somebody swiped the covers off it you can tell by how good cond inside the heads are probly the power by ford blue ones I'd say also its a DIF block meaning Dearborn industry foundry so it's a goody not the Michigan factory crack one pre 78,and guess what it turns over easy

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Well said gerg,somebody swiped the covers off it you can tell by how good cond inside the heads are probly the power by ford blue ones I'd say also its a DIF block meaning Dearborn industry foundry so it's a goody not the Michigan factory crack one pre 78,and guess what it turns over easy

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I managed to get it up on all 4s again and a quick suspension out of numbers looks like a very early 400 with 1970 cast dates also has the matching 2 dot 2vs and d1ae with heaps of abbreviations after it meaning its just a stocker not the rare high nickel I fluked ,also has plenty of bolt ons and a fan in gc not bent also looks like this is a complete cut out engine from the states which olm8 brought in stuffed in the container only paid 400 but for it and we'll worth it too.

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Good thing about it being pre-75 is it's guaranteed to be a 400 and not a 351M (unless someone's done a dirty crank swap in the past)

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I managed to get it up on all 4s again and a quick suspension out of numbers looks like a very early 400 with 1970 cast dates also has the matching 2 dot 2vs and d1ae with heaps of abbreviations after it meaning its just a stocker not the rare high nickel I fluked ,also has plenty of bolt ons and a fan in gc not bent also looks like this is a complete cut out engine from the states which olm8 brought in stuffed in the container only paid 400 but for it and we'll worth it too.

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The 400 is here don't no the vintage yet but I'm on a wicket with the truck driver that is finding them all over the place

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The 400 is here don't no the vintage yet but I'm on a wicket with the truck driver that is finding them all over the place

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All done and for sale $3990

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All done and for sale $3990

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All done and for sale $3990

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Sump n some gaskets are on getting there by later should be all done

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