Is this a HiPo Engine?

I doubt that's a hipo motor. Wrong fan, alternator pulley, vacuum distributor, standard exhaust manifolds, and those are just regular lopo '65 style motor mounts. I like the open letter valve covers though.

Just because it has the wrong bolt on "tins" like the fan doesn't mean someone couldn't have transplanted a Hi-Po engine into it at some point in the last 43 years.

It's more likely those are re-pop open letter valve covers than those heads aren't HiPo heads if RB could see the "19" on the castings. And there is no denying that balancer is NOT a standard 289 balancer.

Looks like a 65 K-code Fuel Pump too?

I normally don't get excited about black, but that is one peeeerrrrtttyyy Black Coupe.

Edited by - Beagle1 on 06/22/2007 15:41:36

Sure, it could be a hipo. It might be a full blueprinted, ported, polished, high compression small-block for all I know without tearing it down and looking at its guts. But more likely than not it's a C-code that somebody put a thick balancer on.

All of the original fuel pumps looked like that - both hipo and lopo.

Well, if it's only got the fat damper and nothing else, it sure is going to have a nice vibration in the engine <img src=images/icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>

Unless I'm mistaken, both styles of harmonic balancer have the same imbalance (28 oz. if I recall). The hatchet counterweight is what is used to make up for the weight of the thicker rod bolts in a hipo.

I think you can use a hipo balancer on a regular 289 without any problems/vibration.

You may be right, I don't completely recall. I know the counter weight was for the rod bolts, just been to long to remember about the damper interchanges.

I want to know how RB can see the 19 on those heads. I haven't been able to see them?

RB,

Those are definitely NOT HiPo motor mounts - sorry they are the standard '65 and early '66 style before Ford went to the stamped steel frame mount set up. I have a full set of both and these are not the HiPo mounts.

Not sure about the head number either - only one picture shows the number and it is too course to make it out exactly - keep in mind that ALL 289 heads have various numbers in this location.