Engine & gearbox id
- Thread starter hinleys
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Nothing on it at all? Very strange.
There are quite a few websites that cover this in depth, usually Mustang related but all very informative.
Regards,
Graham.
There are quite a few websites that cover this in depth, usually Mustang related but all very informative.
Regards,
Graham.
Doc Watson
Lifetime Supporter
what is your car? GT40? Mustang?
engine casting number is on the side next to the sump...
if its a GT40 then you have a ZF gearbox??? the gearbox number is stamped on the main trans-axle body this one is a ZF-0 number 135 part of a batch that went to the USA with some Mk 1 road cars.
We like pictures!!!!!!!
Andy
engine casting number is on the side next to the sump...
if its a GT40 then you have a ZF gearbox??? the gearbox number is stamped on the main trans-axle body this one is a ZF-0 number 135 part of a batch that went to the USA with some Mk 1 road cars.
We like pictures!!!!!!!
Andy
The lack of a casting number MIGHT indicate an aftermarket block, hard to know without pictures.
Regards,
Graham.
Regards,
Graham.
JimmyMac
Lifetime Supporter
Sim
This is how I see it.
I would be be looking for the following engine block casting numbers.
C6FE-6015-B 289 installed on earlier GT40s similar to a beefed up HiPo 289
0-XF-136505 which is a 289 used in late 1966 GT40 through to the end of the JWA campaign using Copper seals. Later bored out to 305.
C8FE-6015-B - not strictly GT40 however a late 1968 302 block used in TransAms and some early 1969 Boss engines. (same4-bolt mains casting as the 0-XF above)
Later race transmissions from 1966 onward came from a batch of thirty uprated ZF-1 with stronger casings than the previous ZF-0s.
Cars used for racing in the UK had hard stamps applied by the RAC on the machined block register.
Privateer engine builders also had their own hard stamps indicating works order number on the blocks.
(my block has these stampings from Mathwall Engineering and I have a copy of the corresponding order build sheet)
This is how I see it.
I would be be looking for the following engine block casting numbers.
C6FE-6015-B 289 installed on earlier GT40s similar to a beefed up HiPo 289
0-XF-136505 which is a 289 used in late 1966 GT40 through to the end of the JWA campaign using Copper seals. Later bored out to 305.
C8FE-6015-B - not strictly GT40 however a late 1968 302 block used in TransAms and some early 1969 Boss engines. (same4-bolt mains casting as the 0-XF above)
Later race transmissions from 1966 onward came from a batch of thirty uprated ZF-1 with stronger casings than the previous ZF-0s.
Cars used for racing in the UK had hard stamps applied by the RAC on the machined block register.
Privateer engine builders also had their own hard stamps indicating works order number on the blocks.
(my block has these stampings from Mathwall Engineering and I have a copy of the corresponding order build sheet)
The date code on my engine's are stamped on a little pad just below the left cylinder head .
