Can We Say Big Block

This is the 1967 Fastback S-CODE i go and pick up in Michigan this friday . Not to bad a shape , quarters need replaced with some other metal im sure . The rarity of finding a big block is the best thing with being a original 4 spd car . I'm not going to restore but build a good driver out of it . NO Eleanor here for sure .

Guy has had it in garage for 20 years so it had a good life . It was running when he shut it off 15 years ago. He said when he was stripping paint of front once in a while it went out for burn outs hence the sag in rear with some broken leaf springs . Specs say they are 320 hp with over 400 fpt

CAN WE SAY BIG BLOCK

Bobby, did he say that it was a 2bl on there? That is definitely an Autolite carb. But with the rag on top I can't tell if it's a 2100 (2bl) or a 4100 (4bl). Just wondering.
P.S. I got a 63 4100 Autolite from a 390 I'd just give you, It's apart, needs a rebuild kit and (if I remember correct) the front jets. Hasn't been on a car for over 17 years.

I do believe it needs the choke stove and the choke cap also

right its a 2 on there he has the original 4 brl intake . Previous owner changed it out along with the trans he blew the 4 spd and replaced it with a 3 spd. I placed a wanted add on craigs list and have a couple good calls on dated 4spd trans for it .

Let me know shipping ill get a money order out to you on carb . Guess i better start a stock for it some day i will get it back to close as i can

Okay, will do. I'll ship it parcel post if you PM or E-mail me and addee. Shouldn't be very expensive since it's aluminum. Let me know in the next week cause I'll be going in for an operation on the 31st of August. I am not really worried about the shipping cost in the long run.

F100 sent ya a pm . Thanks alot for your offer with Denny and Dave looking and carbs for this sweetheart .

I love these BB fastbacks..........shades of Bullitt.

Here see if this gets the juices flowing:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=36MFh4of6lE

Good score on this one Bobby. :D :D :D :D I envy you.


Don

Don the envy is for you who allmost has 2 cars finished i have three projects. Watching it as allways im looking at all the classic cars parked and driving. Music is kinda like jaws there in the begining . Now ill be going vroom vroom all day at work LOL.

Should be a good one...Quarters are cheap and big blocks are rare!!!!!

Bobby,

I dug the carb out this morning and checked it out. The tag reads: FOMOCO C3AF R
A 2 EC

It's mostly there. Missing the Choke cover, cover retaining ring and it's three screws and missing the accelerator pump actuating rod (the one from throttle to acc pump arm).

It'll need gunking as it's got dust from Rolling Meadows, IL, Bonney Lake, Wa and Anita, Ia on it. :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: Places I've lived since aquiring it in 88.

Found a box the right size with plastic peanuts. Will package it up and mail it either this afternoon or tomorrow.

Wow nice car!!! And a big block!!! Looks really clean. I used to have a white 67 S code myself. That's the kind of project I was looking for myself last winter. Anything I saw S code fastback Stang was big bucks. Is this a GT or std 390 package? I also had a black std 390 4 sp non GT. The rear leaf was rotted thru the truck floor and had a chunk of wood wedged between the inside wheel well and tailight panel to keep it supported. :3dSMILE: Fun car tho. **) Your car is a great find!!

Dave yeppers the sheet metal is cheap so dressing it will be easy . I am like everyone hate body work but i like doing sheet metal.


Ford100 thank you its allmost coming home , i can see rolling meadows on the map .



FFR its a standard 390 package from what i can tell . Just talked with a mustang guy he said there is a Z code also for the 390 lighter cam more a passenger car engine . Hopefully they ordered it s code with no options Either way im pretty stoked this will be first big block car i ever had with a manual trans . The owner did say s and offered to send me the vin# but i said aahh i'll get it soon enough. I'll also do a marti report and get all the specifics

I am not one to brag on the blue oval very often but I know a great find when I see one!! Outstanding score Bluestang, you'll have a hell of a hot rod when that one is done!

Brick thanks but the Chevy is a hot rod . Im hoping i can get it to a car stage after the A is done . But i can here the exhaust note in my head from it when it fires from its sleep .

Did find on a stang site they had a X code that was experimental 390 2 brl cars only a few made in 67 and 68 . What if this is one WOW rarity all over . But it could be a trans plant but im still stoked . Cant wait till its on the trailer friday .

the casting on the manifold should be X code then, if it's a real experimental. all experimental Ford parts are marked with an X casting number. would be XD6 I think, meaning experimental 1966, because all Ford engines at that time and maby still are, backdated 1 year, so the engine is actully a '66 if it's original. X= Experiamental D= 1960 decade 6= 6th year.

Matt thanks for id info i'll write this down and it will go with me . I will be popping the hood before i do anything else. I'm hoping more for a S like he said for the hp and torque . 2 more days and i'll know for sure .

Bobby, the carb is on its way. I'm sending you an IM.

Duane Thank You box will fit in with a few other things i have LOL. Return addy is good and alot of thumbs up for you going through the trouble for this old car .

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Duane Thank You box will fit in with a few other things i have LOL. Return addy is good and alot of thumbs up for you going through the trouble for this old car .

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Hey, no problem, Bobby. I rather see someone get good use out of this carb than keep it hanging around serving no purpose. Like I said, it's not been used since 89 or 90 just cause my FE's since then have been multi-carbed. And of course no where near original FE vehicles.

Rather give it to some who can use it than throw it away while cleaning out my home. :LOL: :) :) :)

Duane Throw out i thought thats why we build sheds . Then shelfs in garage . :D

I've also got a BW T-10 4spd for a early FE big car (galaxie) that is apart and and I would sell it. Has the 49 to 64 bellhousing bolt pattern.

I had it rebuilt by a trans shop in WA state in 90 and they put it together with the thrust washer on the wrong side of second gear. I have never bothered to fix it.

That I would want some money for and it wouldn't work well in your Mustang but maybe someone else on here could use it.

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Duane Throw out i thought thats why we build sheds . Then shelfs in garage . :D

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Well, I am working on trying to get a garage built. Right now my shed is full of stuff and I have stuff stored in my brothers basement too. :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

I am really trying to get rid of some of it.

And i have a wanted out on craigs list for a 4 spd . I did get a couple hits for a small block 4 spd . One is a close ratio and other is a wide . Guy i talked to said it will work but I will have to have a longer pilot bearing made for it .

Sounds like you may have some hard to find parts . Ebay is a long process but Craigs list is free and gets done alot faster .

find you an alum intake and lose about 50 lbs from the ft end. good find. bb 4 spd cars are a rariety any more. good luck. there was a factory alum intake 4bbl. avail.

48 thanks for the info . I'll be spotting for things at the ford shows.

"SK" parts were parts made for vehicles of 50 or less. If more than 50 it was upgraded to a "XE" part and treated as a pre production experimental. I think there was a XD part like Matt mentioned. Those seem to ring a bell with the aussie made cars for some reason tho?

Interesting on the X code thing. With cougars there was a X code option in 68 only. 390 2v 10.5:1 comp and 265hp @4400, 403tq @2500.

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Interesting on the X code thing. With cougars there was a X code option in 68 only. 390 2v 10.5:1 comp and 265hp @4400, 403tq @2500.

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One of my two 68 Torino's had this motor. I don't remember an X code associated with it but then again (1972-1973) I wasn't up on Ford codes and just bought what I liked.

P.S. the other 68 was a rare late model with a 428 CJ and I traded it in on a new car. So I was really off the curve at the time. If I had known then what I know now it would still belong to me.

FFR so it seems even the X code isnt to shabby power wise . I didnt see any specs on a x other then there were a hand full in 67 and the same in 68 .

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Originally Posted by FFR428

"SK" parts were parts made for vehicles of 50 or less. If more than 50 it was upgraded to a "XE" part and treated as a pre production experimental. I think there was a XD part like Matt mentioned. Those seem to ring a bell with the aussie made cars for some reason tho?

Interesting on the X code thing. With cougars there was a X code option in 68 only. 390 2v 10.5:1 comp and 265hp @4400, 403tq @2500.

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I could be wrong on it being XD, I know if it's expeiramental, most likely would have an x at the beginning of the casting number, could be XE D6, D6 just to date 1966.

Matt X is close. The whole drive i'll be going through the alphabet LOL. This rain were getting in the midwest will put a damper going up .

Matt, just found this site: http://www.fordfairlane.com/68codes.html

The X is the engine in the vin and doesn't stand for experimental. It is the Premium fuel 2V- 390. Which is the 285 horse and the one I had in my Torino many years ago. Same engine code applies to Mustangs. And according to http://www.vintage-mustang.com/topic...de/decode.html the Y code was the only 2 barrel 390 offered in the Mustang. The Y code 390 was a 2V and for regular fuel.

I found the shipping papers from when the Navy shipped my 68 back from the Philippines in 73 and that got me started looking on line. Found the x code in the Vin.

Of course, if your talking casting numbers, the X number only showed up on non-production parts such as on the 427 SOHC, the 302 tunnel port Trans Am series motor and the 427 Tunnel Port motor. But they never were normal production part.