how old is this motor

[speedemon]

Hi
found this for sale what year is it ,Head D2VE AA Block D1VE6315A 20.
Ford Big Block. Total re build, not yet run. Re ground crank, new mains and big ends. re bored with new pistons and rings. New cam,bearings and lifters. Head re faced 15th, new valves springs and rockers and valve guide inserts. New water pump, Edellbrock Performer manifold. All new gaskets, seals and core plugs. Complete with back plate and flexy (not shown) Block is mid 70`s and heads early 70`s..Ready to fire up
is it worth $1800
and what sort of bhp ,,LB torque would it be putting out

Cheers

Speedy

[Paul Kane]

The D2VE-AA heads are single year heads (1972 model year) that Ford dropped quick because they are detonation prone. Not a performance head by any means and the one single head design that we enthusiasts don't inlcude on the BBF heirearchy of perfomance cylinder heads. they are the only open chamber head that Ford make for the 460's.

If it had D0VE or D3VE heads, it'd certainly be worth the money, but with the D2VE heads, you really need to consider swapping them out for the other's that I mentioned.

This assumes that you want to build a performance engine of any kind. Motor ought to work in an oem passenger car application, although I would personally pass, still.

Paul

[speedemon]

Hi Paul

I already have a motor with D3VE-A2A heads on, motor only done 30,000 miles from new still got score lines in bores, just thought it might be worth getting , save me rebuiding this one. Parts in the Uk are very hard to find, I need to sorce some where i can buy everything in one place to rebuild it , would like to up the output to around 400-450 bhp , but not sure what i will need to do ,to get that power out of it

Any ideas ?? dont want to spend to much at the moment as i`m still building the 32 Roadster its going in


Cheers

Craig