Porting 69 351w heads
#11
The dual plane Procomp intake manifold for 351W motors is a copy of the Weiand Stealth. The Weiand Stealth is a good street manifold design and works very well. I actually prefer it over the Edelbrock Performer RPM. Plus it looks a lot cooler than the Performer RPM. Since you are doing all these other items, have you thought of a camshaft upgrade to take advantage of all the other work done to the motor?

Best Regards,
Mike
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#12
I decided on not porting the heads. I wasn't 100% sure on the thermactor since it appears its there to provide some iron for the rocker studs to screw into. I bought scorpion roller rockers and super comp headers for now. didnt change the cam. I know i probably should of but i will leave it like this for a year or so and decide then. I was also able to located vin stamp on the 351 put cannot figure out what numbers they are. appears they were stamped too lightly. I'll post a pic. Can you make out the numbers?
Also all new pistons and rings. The original pistons were cracked and cylinders 5 & 6 where i was burning oil had missing ring pieces. The other cylinders had good compression before i pulled the engine (about 175 while engine was warm). Surprisingly the cylinder walls were smooth. I had some ridges but not enough to catch my finger nail. I bought a ridge reamer for $35 at autozone. So list of new things:

* all pistons
* new rings
* scorpion roller rockers
* comp cams hardened pushrods
* ceramic super comp headers
My last 5 digits of vin is 17288. I can see from the picture that there is a 1728 but cannot read number after that. And if you look closely, appears to be 6 digits


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#13
That's okay you decided not to port the cylinder heads. But the rocker arm stud goes straight through into a water passage. The hump in the roof of the exhaust port is solid. If you look at cylinder heads with the thermactor passages it will clear up the mystery. When you pull out the press in rocker arm studs you'll notice the hole goes into the coolant passage. Be certain there is thread sealant on the screw in rocker arm studs or coolant will leak through the studs and ultimately into the oil.

Did you check the piston to cylinder wall clearance on the cylinders with the cracked pistons? You didn't mention where the pistons were cracked. I ask because if the pistons skirts were cracked, the most common cause is too much cylinder wall to piston clearance. This allows the piston to "rock" in the bore banging the skirts against the cylinder wall. Plus your piston ring end gap was slightly too high, or was there another reason for that?

I don't know what those stamped numbers are for. The previous owner may have done that during the first rebuild. Maybe some body else will know. To the best of my knowledge, Ford, unlike GM, never applied numbers to the engines to match the VIN on the cars. Numbers matching for Fords means correct casting numbers and date code that are cast into the block or other parts. And then it can be subjective unless the date code is later than the build date for the car.

You can do a cam swap later, just more work. It would have taken you 30 minutes or less to do it when the motor was disassembled on the stand. Not including replacing cam bearings if they were severely worn.

Best Regards,
Mike
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#14
Clearance was .002. I ended up returning rings and bought another brand which had to be filed.
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