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Is this a FE 390 GT Engine?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Lo-fi, May 11, 2011.

  1. Lo-fi
    Joined: May 7, 2010
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    I have a 63 Galaxie 500 with an FE 390 in it. When I had the engine rebuilt, I wrote down the casting numbers off of the block and found out that it is from a 66 full size ford. Then after seeing other people's Galaxies, I realized that my intake manifold has a strange PCV set up that I had never seen and no one I talked to seem to know much about it either. So I did some searching and found out that this PCV set up is a 390 GT (I think). So my question is, does anyone on here know anything about this engine or can anyone shed some light on that is in fact what I have?

    Here is my set up:
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    Here is another view that I found on the web that is pretty much exactly like mine:
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  2. frankenfords
    Joined: Dec 3, 2009
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    from SoCal

    All 4BBL p***enger car FE's from 66 to 70 equipped with PCV have that set up. And all 4BBL FE's from 66 to 70 came with that S manifold, except Cobra Jets, Police Interceptors, and the 69 Mustang Improved Performance engine (which all have different intake manifolds and a slightly different, but similiar PCV set up). Not saying you do not have a 390GT engine, but not saying that you do. As far as casting numbers go, with Ford they don't seem to mean much.
     
  3. greensheads
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    GT heads had 14 exhaust bolt holes, a normal full size 390 head has 8. thats about the only way to tell that I know of.
     
  4. 56don
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    X2. This is a good way to tell.The Fairlane/Comet had to have the head exhaust bolt pattern different from the big car.The Galaxie could use the old log exhaust while the GTs had different staggered bolt pattern exhausts.
     
  5. Lo-fi
    Joined: May 7, 2010
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    Thanks for the info. I had just never seen another pcv set up like that until I started doing research. And all the ones I saw said "GT". Likely it's not a GT, but a 66 standard 390. Which is fine. Basically I'm looking for the molded rubber hose that goes to the pcv valve. Anyone know where I could get one of those?
     
  6. barney rubble
    Joined: Sep 3, 2008
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    The GT's had the newer motor mount bolt pattern than the 63's did also. You might just have a newer top end on the older block.
     

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