Gary
You are correct the build date code is very important and the engine
should be have a build date before the assembly date of the your Tiger but
if for any reason there was a problem with that engine a replacement could
have been installed with a totally different build date. There is an 8
month difference between my 260 engine build date and the assembly date for
my Tiger.
I believe there are very narrow build dates for Tiger engine also.
I believe Ford's Cleveland engine Plant was capable of casting and building
around 1000 engines per 8 hour shift but I have no specific facts to back
that up. I also believe most of the Tiger engines were cast and built
during slow times, near Holiday times and around shut down times to least
interrupt the normal Ford production. The last build of 260 engines For
the Tiger were built during the time Ford was only building 289's so that
group of engines had to be build during a time frame(s) that least
interfered with Ford's needs to build 289 engines.
Ron Fraser
-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of garywinblad@comcast.net
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 4:06 PM
To: Thomas Witt
Cc: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Original engine?
Tom's right. Corvette's have their body serial number matching their engine
number but Ford's don't. Nobody has commented on the most important number
though.. that's the engine build date, stamped on a boss on the front of the
block just in front of the driver's side head.. B9470622 has the original
engine with a build code of 4C31?? (cant read it right now). 4 means 1964,
C means the third month (March),
31 means the 31st day (March 31, 1964) if I recall correctly. I think
the car was built in May or June 1964 so everything matches up..
Gary
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