Raphael
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> De : Rob Root[SMTP:root99@earthlink.net]
> R=E9pondre =E0 : Rob Root
> Date=A0: vendredi 14 ao=FBt 1998 07:38
> A : bertalmio
> Cc : mil-veh@skylee.com
> Objet : Re: [MV] FORD V8 YEAR IDENTITY
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> bertalmio wrote:
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> > Hi List!
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> > 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
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> Hi Andre:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> -Rob Root
> 1942 GPW
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> P.S. Anyone know much about postwar kits to drop a flathead in a =
jeep.=20
> 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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> =3D=3D=3D
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