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RE:EDC-E/core plugs
By McQ - 04/16/2005 10:32:06 PM; IP 4.255.78.160
I'm not positive on this but I think all of the early '58 heads were EDC-E whether Ford or Edsel.

Speaking of the freeze/core plugs on the ends of the heads, I mistakenly thought at one time that these plugs were exclusive to all EDC-E machined cc heads or that all machined cc heads had to have them. I was wrong! I'm not sure when Ford quit casting the heads with these plugs but here's a strange turn that I was able to figure out due to Barry's information:

The set that I have from a 10/17/57 production '58 wagon, have a 79 N casting date which works out to be 9/13/57. This matched set, which I think are original to this '58 Country Sedan, have the freeze plugs. And the EDC- E casting between the center spark plugs is a small letter with the date code right next to this. These heads with the small letter edc-e are Dearborn foundry castings. Then I have a single head, small letter edc-e with date code, 79 J, which is 9/9/57, and NO freeze plug holes! So it's an earlier Dearborn foundry casting without the plugs.

The Cleveland foundry castings have much larger EDC-E cast between the middle plugs, with the date code cast "normally" inside the head.

So what's this all mean? Probably very little to the Farilane/Mustang crowd, but to us Ford-Edsel FEnatics, just more information! Can't have enough of that.....right.
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 RE:this is right on! -- McQ, 04/06/2005
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Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=25305&Reply=24463><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor25305" onclick="return false;">EDC-E revisited</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Barry B, <i>07/12/2005</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=25305', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor25305') }); </script>  EDC-E revisited -- Barry B, 07/12/2005
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 RE: EDC-E revisited -- Barry B, 07/17/2005
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