Interesting casting number fact

[HARVEY LIGHT]

A while back I asked the forum about my casting number on a block without a year code. I finally figured out that it was a 1964 4 main 200 - probably out of a 64 fairlane. David had responded that Ford did many interesting things with regards to motors and leaving off a year code certainly was not unheard of. Just lately I was talking to an old mechanic who frequents the O'Reillys where I work and he filled me in on a little fact. Seems FoMoCo would make engine blocks ahead and store them in warehouses until they were needed. This along with the fact that they usually did this WITHOUT the year code especially in Canada makes me realize my engine was not an experimenatal block, as previously assumed, but probably a "make ahead" Canadian block. Just passin it along. Harv

 

[xctasy]

Yep. Outposts in Argentina and Australia got oddball seven bearing engines well before there were standard on US market models, and there were also predelivery cooking model Falcons and Mustangs with versions in service with 'special' written on the blocks. Like the siamesed exhast ports and the Aussie 2V heads, they were all developed by Dearborn and then cast in Canada when they were build at the Windsor plant. Thenother outposts made them, like Geelong in Australia, and the other plants in Argentina.

This stopped when the predimnant US Falcon/Maverick/Mustang/Fairmont engine plant became the Cleveland plant.

 

[gb500]

Yep. Outposts in Argentina and Australia got oddball seven bearing engines well before there were standard on US market models, and there were also predelivery cooking model Falcons and Mustangs with versions in service with 'special' written on the blocks. Like the siamesed exhast ports and the Aussie 2V heads, they were all developed by Dearborn and then cast in Canada when they were build at the Windsor plant. Thenother outposts made them, like Geelong in Australia, and the other plants in Argentina.

This stopped when the predimnant US Falcon/Maverick/Mustang/Fairmont engine plant became the Cleveland plant.

my 'undersatnding' was that because australia (and canada) was part of the british commonwealth (still are), that the trade terms were better between commonwealth coutnries ( sort of like a free trade agreement today) than non commonwealth countries - hence also why canadain blocks/engines (ie 200ci early engines) were found in aust falcons