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| RE: 63 PI engines |
| By hawkrod - 02/02/2002 10:28:22 AM; IP 198.81.17.151 |
| well i am not an expert but i did part out a 63 PI merc station wagon a few years ago! i found the car near the mexican border and when i looked under the hood i saw the exhaust and realized it was special. after doing some quick homework i found out that the PI had a special solid lifter block (mine had the HP marking i think, been a long time), a special grooved crank (no big deal now), big bolt rods, a big alternator pulley like a 427, a hi-po air cleaner like a 427, and a few other trinkets including the exhaust manifolds. the manifolds were used on several other applications including 406's i think. i sure wish i had been smart enough to buy and keep that wagon. it was a 63 squire and there could not have been many of them if two!, i sold the motor to a guy up in the gold country in california, placerville or somewhere like that. he had a 61 hipo and had been looking for a correct engine and mine was the closest he had seen. i gave him the door tag from the merc as well (i took it as proof of the engines heritage!). this was 8-10 years ago and i still consider it one of my great blunders! this car was so original that it had correct date coded spark plug wires and you could read the fomoco logo inside the air cleaner element! hawkrod |
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