Why all the teeth nashing over the antiquated 289 Hi-Po?
For much less money, you can lift a 347 in the car that will easily produce
100 HP more.
Thatbs what I am doing. Period correct, no....but tell that to the Corvette
I just dusted ;^)
Duke
B382002037
---- "John R. Engle" <tigermaniac@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I haven't seen this information come up in this thread in any of the
> references but there is an external marker that denotes Hi-Po heads. On the
> corner of each head there is a number that is cast in and if memory serves
> me correctly that number is either a 19, 20 or 21. Thus, when I am at a car
> show and see a small block Ford that is dressed up like a H-Po I always look
> for these corner casting numbers so that I can tell if at least the heads
> are Hi-Pos then possibly everything below it could be correct. If the
> numbers are not these then I know it is a poser.
>
> John Engle
> Mk-II with 289 Hi-Po
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <CoolVT@aol.com>
> To: <rfraser@bluefrog.com>; <atwittsend@verizon.net>;
> <tigers@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 9:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Hipo Heads
>
>
> > So, is the conclusion that Ford using the "HiPo" designation was mostly
a
> > sales gimmick? From the similarities with the un-HiPo there doesn't seem
> > to
> > be much gain.
> > Mark
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