I'll check my spreadsheet when I get home and report back later today.
Posts by Evantugby
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found. Did belong to a 66 GT350 that had been wrecked in 1967 and has been in a Sunbeam Tiger ever since.
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972-388-6795.
I've been trying to locate the car on Facebook as well. It might possibly be in the great scrapyard in the sky by now. It is available for anyone looking for a narrow mount toploader 4 speed for a early Mustang
Racheroman,
Your vin and phone number are my #323 entry into my database of different vins. The more vins I can populate the better the chances are to help people find there original drivetrains.
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Hi Evan , can you add my Vin 5RO9K153391 to your data base, if you read my thread K History in the General Diskussion Forum you will read a bit of the Kar History and see I have already found my original Trans thanks to this web site. supposedly the Engine was "blown" while the car was being raced and removed, hopefully the Block is still in one piece and around somewhere.
cheers Haydn
Hi Haydn,
I did record your number down probably in 2018. Glad you found your transmission. That is why I keep this database. I wrote down your transmission's vin stamp matches. If I find your engine I'll be sure to let you know. Would you like to leave me your phone number for quickest contact?
Evan, Haydn is a local call for you, if you live in New Zealand. Otherwise, email is better.
-Fred-
Bahaha, copy that! I'll email him then.
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Hi Evan , can you add my Vin 5RO9K153391 to your data base, if you read my thread K History in the General Diskussion Forum you will read a bit of the Kar History and see I have already found my original Trans thanks to this web site. supposedly the Engine was "blown" while the car was being raced and removed, hopefully the Block is still in one piece and around somewhere.
cheers Haydn
Hi Haydn,
I did record your number down probably in 2018. Glad you found your transmission. That is why I keep this database. I wrote down your transmission's vin stamp matches. If I find your engine I'll be sure to let you know. Would you like to leave me your phone number for quickest contact?
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Just curious if anyone owns Mustang Vin# 5F07K161034
I have the VIN stamped toploader for that vehicle.
Rancheroman,
Unfortunately I have not recorded that vin in the past. But I'd like to add your phone number to my database with this vin so I can reach out to you soonest if I should come across the engine or kar.
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That is a very expensive price. It is my understanding the crankshaft was the same 1M cast-iron crankshaft as the standard 289s but were "handpicked and brinnel-tested for strength" and made in batches with higher levels of nickel and magnesium. Am I missing anything? So why the expensive price tag?
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Found. If this belongs to you, contact me.
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engine block located.
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engine block located.
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engine found
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block has been found.
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block located.
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engine located.
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Rancheroman,
I will check my vin database when I head home to see if I ran across this vin/owner.
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Kelvin Ali,
Unfortunately I have not ran across that vin stamp yet. If I do run across the block I can contact you here or if you'd like to give me your phone number I'll reach out to you there for quicker response.
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Just a quick follow up: I bought the arvinode system.
Thank you for the advice, can't wait to put it on my Kar.
GREXIT,
Where did you buy your system from? Any pictures of the install?
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I have a original K Code w/o VIN on engine and trans.
This was discussed in the old forum as I recall.
The speculation is that all 65/66's have VIN stampings on engine trans.
Warwick, you could have bought your kar from the dealership brand new and could have been the only owner of your kar for the last 55+ yrs. YOU may know your engine is original. But unfortunately you can never prove to most of the Mustang community that without a doubt your block is original to your kar without that vin stamp
Ford had very specific standardized practices to produce millions of mustangs through those first several year. Whether it be stamping vin numbers in the apron, using specific bolt heads on certain components, marking the radiator support aprons with written codes, the list goes on and on. One of those standardized practices was stamping vins on the HiPo engine. We know this through thousands of verified vin stamps. Sure, was there some that might have slipped past Quality Control--I'll give you that. But the proof of burden is on you when you say your engine (without a vin stamp) is original. Unfortunately that is something you will never be able to prove to anyone else. I know it hurts and I know how desperate you want to prove to everyone it is an original block but most of us in this HiPo business will never be confident in your claim--without that vin stamp.
Mustang360's article states: "Factory-installed 289 High Performance engines had the vehicle serial number stamped into the righthand side of the block near the battery's negative-cable attachment point."
http://www.mustangandfords.com/how-to/engine/…-mustang-engine
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Fred,
In your expertise, what is typical HiPo engine dates in relation to the kar's build date? Are we talking a couple weeks preceding the kar's build date or a couple months?
I have seen the date codes on the block to the scheduled production date to vary widely. I have verified a Kar where the block was July and the scheduled production date was in November. That is the exception rather than the rule but I have seen several that way. I am sure that others have observed widely varying matches as well.
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Thanks Fred.