Any die hard Ford (cars) guys?

Greg K

Well-known Member
A friend and I took a trip a couple hours west to look at a motor for his car. He has a project 69 Mustang (not a mach 1 but one that looks just like one). Anyway, among the things needed is a motor. My friend came across an advertised 69 351 windsor which we bought today. The question is casting numbers. It has the numbers C90E-6015 stamped on it indicating a 69 351 windsor. However there should be a letter after it indicating which car line it was to be installed in. This one has no final letter. Any ideas why this would be? Any other useful info would be great. It does check out to be a 351 by the intake manifold width and deck height.
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Could be a service replacement engine, that is, one which replaced an engine in another car that failed and was still under factory warranty---hence, the engine would be available for any Ford car using that specific engine.

Ben
 
The 3rd letter is the car line it was intended for O = fairlane A = full size car Z = mustang S= Mercury T = truck up to F600 so ur block is C= 60 9 = year of era so 1969 O= fairlane the next letter is where it was cast but I don't remeber what is what on those the rest of the numbers tells what it is and where it may have been stored and all together they are a casting number which helps ID the part but not always the same part number as said part
 
That was my first thought also but it looks like someone else has a better explanation.
 
This supposedly came out of a galaxy, would this fit the numbers? Thanks for your help.
 
c9 is the main casting number for the series... just below it the date of this actual casting. ) is year, then letter is month, then 2 digits for the day.... So your engine came out of the mold in 1980..
 
The Windsor was the "small block" Ford out of Windsor, Ontario. The Windsor family included a wide variety of cubic inch displacements from 221" to 351", that also included the 260, 289, and 302. Like the small block Mopars or Chevys for example, you can't tell by looking at them from the outside because they look identical, and most of the parts are interchangeable, including the intake manifolds. Where they differ is internal with different bores and strokes. One thing that I liked about a 351 for instance, is that the sticker on the air cleaner of that 1964 Falcon might say 260, but inside and under that blue paint might be what started out as a 351 casting that has been bored and stroked to well over 400 inches.

Mark
 
(quoted from post at 05:23:40 02/08/16) 351 has a taller deck and wider intake than the other Windsors.

Yep, the 221, 289 & 302s had a deck height of 8.206

The '69-'73 351W was 9.480" & the '74-'80 was 9.503.

As for the casting numbers, in the case of blocks cast in 69-70 the first two digits were C9, 71-73 were D2 and 74-80 were D4.

C=60s and D=70s So....C9 means 69 and D2 means 72, etc.

Like olfolks says, the third digit (actually the [u:e6f562ce97]letter[/u:e6f562ce97] O) indicates Fairlane or Torino.
The E means Engine and the 6015 means it is an engine block.

As for the date it was cast, I would say 0 means 1970, E means May and 13 means the 13th day.
If it were cast later than 1970, the casting number would begin with either D2 for a 71-73 or D4 for 74-80.

Its things like this that made me sometimes want to switch from Ford to Chevy. LOL
 
Also has a different firing order.[/quote]

Yes, it does, I once had a '65 Falcon Sprint with a 289 in which a prior owner had installed a 351W cam. The firing order was changed.
 

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