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Originally Posted by mustang tim

hi i got a 429 and im trying to find the year the casting says 3 dove94258 and also below that it has f42b19 it has d2vvaa head which i heard was junk let me know what i should do to get some power with a little cost looking to put under 3k in motor

Although you really haven't provided the necessary numbers to pinpoint actual year of manufacture, the D2VE-AA heads were installed on 1972 year model 429/460's only.

With a carefully spent $3000, you ought to be able to do a ported D3VE head swap (the D2VE heads must go), a double-roller straight-up timing chain, a recurved OEM Dura-Spark distributor and Box, aluminum intake and a larger Holley carburetor.

Paul