#289 HIPO CRATE ENGINE FULL#

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#289 HIPO CRATE ENGINE FULL#

This Tech Tip is From the Full Book, HIGH-PERFORMANCE FORD ENGINE PARTS INTERCHANGE. Changes to three freeze plugs and different engine-mount bolt hole spacing happened early in the 1963 model year to reduce NVH. These early blocks are also differentiated via engine mount bolt hole spacing, with the earliest 221/260 blocks being 6 inches apart along with two freeze plugs instead of three. Early 1962 model year 221 and 260 blocks had two 11вЃ„2-inch freeze plugs on each side, which later became three freeze plugs in 1963. Deck cooling passages are an odd triangular shape as well, which is another element that differentiates them from the 289 and 302. These blocks are easy to spot because their bores are smaller than the 4.000-inch bores found on the 289/302. Casting numbers and date codes are C2OE and C3OE, located just above the starter. The 221 and 260 are both five-bolt bellhousing blocks with either a 3.500- inch bore for the 221 or 3.800-inch for the 260. The information that follows will allow you to properly identify the wide range of factory blocks that were made, and the distinctive characteristics of each.Д«lock identification is straightforward with 221, 260, 289, and 302 cubic-inch Fords. What youвЂ™ve got to work with determines the best-possible choices for you down the road in your engine build. The engine block is the foundation on which everything is built.

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