Topic: 428 C block??

[RoyceP]

If your Park Lane still has the original block it will have the "C" on the back bulkhead and it will have the heavy main webbing. The crank shaft will be a IU, the same crank and block used in the 1968 1/2 428CJ.

Interesting subject.  I have a 1968 Mercury Park lane convertible.  It was built in Apr 68 at the St Louis plant.  It still has the number matching 428-4V and C-6 tranny.  Where would these markings normally be on the engine?

Thanks Mark

[1967 eight barrel]

All 428's don't even have a C or an A. The scratch on the left rear side of my block looks more akin to "Schutzstaffel" A single version of the double bolt the SS used.
It's a C6ME less the A on the casting number and a SEPT 66 date of manufacture.
This makes it hell for external identification of bread and butter FE blocks with a few rare exceptions.

                                                                                                             -Keith

[sportyworty]

can you post a pick Keith I am always interested in documenting anything new or out of the ordinary. Your block is cast during A scratch production but have several that are tough to decipher. I have S scratch blocks dated as early as first week Dec 1966.

[1967 eight barrel]

Sport,
I will try to remember when it comes off the stand. I have only been home since Monday night after a week in the hospital.   I used to see some weird stuff Ron Miller from Ford Power Parts came across too. I have even seen the side oiler bosses for the relief valves cast onto some of the blocks in the rear he had for sale. Always a smorgasbord of oddities back in the 80's and 90's there.

                                                                                                      -Keith

[RoyceP]

These are common on any FE made after 1964 when the first side oilers were built for the 427 High Risers. It does not mean the block is anything special. Just a common thing, you also see some lo - po 352, 428 or 390 blocks with 427 features on one or both sides, as if the block was intended to have cross bolted mains. It is not anything special, just Ford using up mold cores that were left over from a run of 427 blocks.

Ron used to make a killing selling stuff like that to the uninformed.

Sport,
I will try to remember when it comes off the stand. I have only been home since Monday night after a week in the hospital.   I used to see some weird stuff Ron Miller from Ford Power Parts came across too. I have even seen the side oiler bosses for the relief valves cast onto some of the blocks in the rear he had for sale. Always a smorgasbord of oddities back in the 80's and 90's there.

                                                                                                      -Keith