I was shoving down some small trees and other **** by my garage today with the H Farmall loader tractor. I was surprised when I dug an intake manifold out of the weeds that I had no idea was there. I looked it over and to me it looked like a Ford Y-block 4 barrel intake. I had a 1957 4-barrel Y-block intake years ago but it disappeared when I was a teenager out of the corn crib on the family home farm where my mother lives that's 10 miles away from this farm. No one lived on this farm at the time, the house and the garage was built here in 1994 so I'd have no clue why it would be that one or why it would have ended up here. The numbers on it are ecz-9425-b.
Looks like you just found $200. Cheapest price for a large pattern sold on Ebay. Without a casting number it could be from a later 292 truck motor.
Pretty cool. Pressure wash it, blow the debris outa the inards, then soak it in white vinegar for a day or two. It'll look like (damn near) new!
I have to say that I'm mystified how it got there. My sister lived on this farm from 1994 to 2008. My wife wonders if one of my nephews took the one I had out of the crib at the home place thinking it would fit one of their cars, they never owned anything with a Y-block in it but that's possible. We have lived here since 2008 but I was shoving stuff around in an area that I've never cleaned out since we lived here. I had looked in the corn crib a number of times for mine but I could never find it a**** all the farm equipment parts stored in there so I didn't know when it walked off. A lot of things seem to grow legs and walk off on our farms. I'm getting older and I think my memory needs a reboot, it's not what it used to be. Now I wonder if I bought one someplace and don't remember buying it but it would be uncharacteristic of me to toss good car parts in the weeds.
No, my parents bought this farm in 1956, I lived here with them until I was 4 1/2 when we moved over to the home place after Grandpa died and Grandma moved to town. My sister and her husband put up the house and garage in 1994, they divorced in 1998 and in 2008 she lost the house to the finance company. I bought the house from the finance company in 2008 and we moved here then.
I sure looks that way. I have several Y-blocks and I was wishing that I could find that manifold. I was thinking it must have disappeared out of the corn crib years ago but it may have been more recent than I thought. Sure is strange to run across it that way.
The part number goes back to a 1957 manifold on GOOGLE. This is the one with the desirable bolt pattern for the carburetor. I believe everything after 1957 was two barrel but would gladly stand corrected if I am wrong. Charlie Stephens
The one that I had (and I think this one is it) I pulled off of a 1957 Fairlane 2 door hardtop that a neighbor had run through a demo derby.
I've been looking around and like you I thought that 1957 was the last Y-block 4 barrel. I see that's true if you only look at Ford cars but Ford trucks and Mercury Y-blocks had 4 barrels after 1957 according to this Y=block info page I ran across. http://www.y-block.info/casting/intake.html I'm not entirely sure if this info is 100% complete since the Mercury list only goes up to 1959 but my parents had a 1960 Mercury with a 312 Y-block in it. It was a 2 barrel.
I think your wife has the best theory, the nephews took it. Probably found they couldn't use it and buried it to keep from gettin their *** beat for stealing.
Might be fun at the next family gathering to casually tell the story of how you lost it & found it, and see how your nephews react.
Great detective work, as the process of 'deduction' goes... I'd sure watch the eyes of the nephews when you mention it...Watch and see if they look 'down, and to the left'. My son Rich bought a '24 Dodge Coupe from the son of an older man who had p***ed...the 'condition' was that Rich take ALL the parts for the car, (Coupe was being 'deeply cleaned', garnish moldings, etc.) Car was stored since 1946! But there was a wood boat, also. 18 foot 'runabout', had an inboard engine and Vee-drive. Boat had to be taken also. Rich said "'O.K.', but where's the engine??" Machine shop had the engine, major rebuild. 312 T Bird, out of a T-Bird. Couldn't remember which machine shop in San Jose! Engine went there in '70, man's son forgot where..... I asked Rich about the intake manifold in the bow, it was red, Teapot 4 bbl on it... It was a #ECZ 9425 A. It became mine, the perfect fit for MY '56 312 engine, had a 3X2 Stromberg setup, but finally found the ECZ with the Teapot! ****...I'm runnin' out of Fords to put all these engines in!
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