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Offline Hipo giddyup

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1965 intake casting paint marks??
« on: July 06, 2015, 11:04:52 AM »
I wanted to post these markings I found under the paint on a 1965 4v intake. Are these some type of QC paint markings? They look to be a 2 white paint marks and a light green paint daub above the date stamp? Curious for some input on what these represent?
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Re: 1965 intake casting paint marks??
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2015, 11:53:50 AM »
Could be any number of things including:

-Identification
-Assembly/QA/Torque
-Worker-unique marks, took a break and marked an engine so they knew which one they stopped at.
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Re: 1965 intake casting paint marks??
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2015, 05:00:07 PM »
IMHO likely marks applied once the intake was installed on the engine at the plant.

No idea what they meant (never met a worker who had an explanation) only the possibility that something had been done, checked  or as Charles mentioned might have identified the 4V intake manifold itself
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Re: 1965 intake casting paint marks??
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2015, 11:51:26 PM »
Curiosity satisfied, thanks guys!
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1967 Springtime Yellow Coupe, 289 2v 3spd, Metuchen built, Nov. 17th 66'
1966 Sahara Beige Coupe, 289 2v 3spd, Dearborn built, July 21st 66'
1964 1/2 Pagoda Green Coupe, 260 2v 3spd, Dearborn built, June 30th 64'
1966 GT350 Fastback clone, 289 HiPo, 725cfm Holley, 4spd, SanJose built, Nov 25th 65'

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Re: 1965 intake casting paint marks??
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2015, 04:49:21 PM »
Just as a related note - I've seen these daubs of color on original heads and block (the other large case engine parts)  also.
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