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| It's a 1974-78 block. |
| By Dave Shoe - 07/28/2003 6:10:50 PM; IP 12.2.11.131 |
The D4TE could be found in FEs from 1974 to 76, and FTs from 1974-78. The cylinder jackets might be the heavy 361/391 FT type, but most likely they are the standard 360/390 FE type. A drill bit shank poked between the cylinders throught the core plug holes will tell the story (search this Forum for "drill bit test", for more details).
You can tell the engine by looking at the crank flange. If it's still in the vehicle, turn the damper to TDC, pull the inspection cove off the bellhousing, and look for a hefty half-circle cutout on the flange, just to the drivers side of the square notch which points directly to China when at TDC. The football shaped cutout indicates the crank is a short throw, as found in the 360. no major cutout nect to the square notch indicates it's a later 390 crank (early 60s 390s got the cutout, just for the heck of it, even though the rear throw could be hollowed out without the extra flange cut).
It's most likely a 360, since it was standard in most pickup truck V-8 packages. Since 1973, 390-2V was optional on F100 trucks, and 390-4Vs on all larger light trucks. The 4V that was standard will lokk about identical to the 1965 jobby (which lacks the oil fill tube), except it'll have an EGR port on the carb flange and the familiar "T" on the #1 runner.
The block does have reinforced cranksaddles, since most all FE/FT blocks got them by the time the mid 70s came around.
Sounds like a solid foundation for your Galaxie. You will want to get a sonic mapping of the cylinders if you plan on performance action or heavy boring, as a little core shift can be expected in many blocks, and you don't want to bolt a lot of expensive racing goodies onto an engine with thin sections to the cylinders.
The 1959 4-barrel will be a tall-runner intake (generally the same as any 1958-65 era iron intake, except 1965 lost the oil filler tube) and can use valve covers without any oil filler ports in them (1958-64 era covers), since the intake has the oil filler tube in it. I'll work O.K with the small runner heads, but a better match might be a set of 1958-65 FE heads, since these all have the matching tall runner.
1966 was the first year the heads got the smaller runners, and the D2TE-AA heads on your D4 block are of the small runner type. It's my understanding these work fine with the early tall runner intake.
JMO,
Shoe. |
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