That’s not a Ford head 100% for sure. Atleast not from a modern 3-valve 4.6L/5.4L. For one the valve arrangement is wrong (Ford heads have the single exhaust valve centered), plus if we were to say just for s&g’s thay maybe those were aftermarket Ford heads with non-factory valve geometry we’d still be able to prove that wrong as the intake ports are no where near correct. Not only would the ports not line up but the two decks (head to intake manifold) wouldn’t meet up at all on those things.
I’ll bet money those arnt Ford 3v heads. Hell it could even be an i4 head off who knows what.
I google searched by the stamped in coding, and it came back as a Ford head. A custom racing Ford head.
Neither your money loss nor Teacher’s best intent helps me much though, and it was his offering of 3 choices to help me that got all this started. Best intentions and all that…
Oh crap, I had opened this page awhile before you posted that and just had a minute to type my response…
Turns out we’re both correct! They’re 3v heads for an OLD Ford motor such as the 351 Cleveland which was originally a 2v engine. Not modern 4.6 / 5.4 3v heads at all.
I did specify in the post I was sure they wernt modern 3 valve 4.6 / 5.4 heads. We have several in our fleet I’m responsible for and unfortunately I’ve had to have heads off them more times than I care to count (this isn’t faulting the engine family, just the Mexicans that work for my boss).
Other than their existence I know nothing of the old stuff. The 351c went out of production 5 years before my time lol.
I had 351W heads on my 302 in my ’74 Comet. Drove a ’71 Station wagon of my dad’s with a 351C in it. We once had a 70 LTD with a 400 that would smoke tires till you took your foot off the gas. Great big heavy car, plenty of muscle.
But none of that helps here, of course. Easy getting off track, isn’t it? lol
I had a starsky and hutch ’75 gran torino replica. can’t remember if it had the cleveland and i put in the windsor, or a windsor and i put in a cleveland. in any event, some jackass cut me off, and totalled it. i was a cop at the time, and i went to apply for the state police exam. they told me they didn’t want me when i pulled in the parking lot. i told them i probably wouldn’t take the job anyway because i was on the swat team and having too much fun.
One should swap the driver spring right after getting the Mini, its awful!, it causes lumen/lux flutctuatuins up to 20%. Otherwise, it if has a rear switch: the best nearly edc/all arround thrower light so far