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| told you i would get flamed........ |
| By hawkrod - 05/29/2002 11:58:06 AM; IP 198.81.16.158 |
| i think the X would be for special hi-per applications as all of the racing replacement parts would have the X as the application D0ZX C7ZX C8AX etc.... my guess would be that the X casting would be a little better in quality with a little time and attention to both casting and machining (all of the ones i have seen were very nice and sonic very well). also the X would tell the machinist that the casting was a little harder (another assumption on my part). i have found that many of the X blocks have a million degassing buttons on them so they would have better grain and density. i have one S block here that is also a 7B date code that is crossbolted. i talked about it before and i have always assumed that it was made by some guys screwing around because it has the 427 style webbing and i figure that it was a lousy friday and they decided to see what would happen at quality control if this Tbird engine went down the line with extra bolts sticking out of it! i have actually had this one since about 84 when i pulled it out of a Q code Tbird at a junkyard by the mexican border outside of El Centro. you could have knocked me over with a feather when i went to pick it up at the wrecker (we made the deal and then they pulled it, no self serve back then!). they backed up a tow truck to load it into my pickup and i thought i had just scored a 427 for 50.00! raced home and tore it down and it was a big rod bolt 428 with 427 caps and nothing else. odd odd odd! but i figure just owning it and the story that goes with it are worth more than having another 427! BTW that same day i also bought a super low mile 63 390PI out of a P code mercury squire wagon. he charged me 150.00 for it because he wanted to use it in his tow truck because it had neat headers (shorties). some times these memories and the oddities are the best part of the hobby. my dad and i owned a reproduction parts business for years (we made parts for all of the big places like carpenter, drake C&G ford etc..) and did restoration work on 34-48 fords (we did work for brizios, don garlits, reggie jackson, vic edelbrock ,as well as having worked on over 200 dearborn award fords, and having built many displays for the ford foundation and the towe museum). we used to go to 35 car swaps a year driving to portland, carlisle, hershey, chicasha (sp.?), pate, pomona etc... and we went junking the whole way. my dad is gone now and a lot of my really good stuff came while he and i were on the road. sorry to go on but somehow you got me on a tangent that brings back some great memories. i sold the business after dad died and went back to work in retail management but the lure was too strong and for the last 4 years i have been selling parts full time. thanks for the little memory nudge, hawkrod |
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