Re: [MV] FORD V8 YEAR IDENTITY

Rob Root (root99@earthlink.net)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 22:38:03 -0700

bertalmio wrote:
>
> Hi List!
>
> Can anyone help me to identify one Ford engine, that I have:
> this is a flat V8, each head is script Ford USA, 8 BA.The left side head
> is still script FERRO on the head
> I think it's a original carburetor, script "f", and "FONOCO" or
> "FONACO",model 8BA, in the other side.
> Is that a pre-war, war, or past-war engine.It has his original radiator

Hi Andre:

The 8BA is the 239 cubic inch displacement flathead V-8 produced by Ford
in 1949. I know it was used in Ford passenger cars and pickups in 1949,
I have no idea what MV's might have used it originally. Are you sure
the "FONOCO" isn't FOMOCO, shorthand for FOrd MOtor COmpany?

I think many old Ford car restorers who aren't too fussy about getting
the exact year of flathead to match their cars consider the 8BA the best
engine to rebuild. Sorry, I don't know all the reasons for this.

-Rob Root
1942 GPW

P.S. Anyone know much about postwar kits to drop a flathead in a jeep.
I had a chance to buy a flathead once that came out of an MB. Still had
the special bellhousing attached. The ex-motorpool mechanic who owned
it told me it required removing the front driveshaft, thus making a
peppier two wheel drive...

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