THis question and the same one on another site has remained unanswered for far too long. I take that to inderstand that nobody knows anything about the 1st gen Mustangs....
If you car is 151 it is 151st car ORDERED for build. That is to say as the order came in it was assigned a VIN for build. Furthermore, was your car was built in San Jose? (R plant code) there is also a 151st car in Dearborn and Metuchen. The car was not necessarily the 151st built but I'll bet it was pretty near to it. It is highly likely that the motor is a leftover black one from '65. My '67 is 3904 from Dearborn and has a few left over C6# parts on it. It certainly is not odd for mid production changes as old parts get superseded by newer technology and practices. My early '67 had a washer bag and a center fill hole in the Diff, all things that got phased out mid '67 and I believe very late '67's got different steering columns and just to add to confusion the different plants would phase changes in at different times as their stock of old parts would run out and in fact often the different plants may use different parts throughout the entire run. ( Even in the 80's Taurus/Sables had different side mirrors depending on the plant it was built)
Not sure if it helps but I can't give you specifics by year date and plant etc.
You may want to find an MCA member that judges 65/66 cars as they will know all the nuts and bolts and finishes to a certain degree.
all the 170's and 200' I've had had adjustable rocker arms. Only one of them would have to be adjusted once a year or so because the adj. studs were worn and would turn in the rocker. I would adj. with the car running.
Your car is actually the 50151st Mustang ordered. However they sold the millionth Mustang in '66 ( actually traded it to the owner of the first one) so it was still probably still early! Stu
Apparently mine is the 150 thousandth MUSTANG, but not the 150 thousandth 1966 Mustang! There is no way that anyone in the UNIVERSE can bake out 150K cars in 5 days...
So I am going to assume that the colors of my engine are correct and they will stay that way. Thanks for everyones help and assistance. Especially the two of you who actually said something....
By the way I Ported my intake and exhaust bowls yesterday and port matched my exhaust to my head, which will give me about 5 HP overall! It's gotta man, I mean I couldn't put my index finger into the exhaust bowls or ports before and now I can fit my thumb
No your car is the 50150th Mustang. All Fords have the number one at the beginning of the Consecutive build number. At the 100000th car the number 1 rolls over to a 2. BTW Mercury's start with 5's and Lincolns a 7
On 2006-08-24 07:16, FALCONAROUND wrote:
By the way I Ported my intake and exhaust bowls yesterday and port matched my exhaust to my head, which will give me about 5 HP overall! It's gotta man, I mean I couldn't put my index finger into the exhaust bowls or ports before and now I can fit my thumb
I got one of those engines. Never ever got a straight answer about it either.
Well, have most of it, anyway.
There for a season, Ford was trying to push up sales of the 200 inch six in the Mustang. It was being advertised as next hottest thing to a V-8. They made special blocks and heads, and few other things. I beleive it was all aimed at European Rally (long distance) racing. My engine currently has what looks to be a standard head, but with the funny earlier valve train on top. The adjustable rocker variety. A former friend of mine located it from a Formula Ford shop, but the correct racing cylinder head, carb. etc, had been sold off years prior. Most everything else fits one another. We got the parts, the vendor shrugged us off, but mentioned we could later on come and read through his official paperwork on the engines, for there were many differences between it and a standard 200 as placed in a Mustang. It was designed to run full throttle for hours at end.
It took me forever to obtain the $$ and gumption to rebuild the engine. When I went back about nine months later on how to adjust the valves, the shop was out of business. I can remember reading the few pages of books he had on the engine, and it was printed in French, Italian and Swedish besides English.
There was shortage of V8's for a while in '66 so Ford did the "Six and the Single Girl" campaign to boost sales of I6 cars. Apparently it was quite successful too. I have a picture of a magazine ad for it somewhere. Stu
There are lots of early Falcons and Mustangs running tri-carb setups. Check us out at FordSix.com.
Most of us run direct mounted Holley two barrels though. A properly jetted 350 makes good power and is still fairly economical. A 500 works nice on a hot six.
An aluminum head has been developed for the Ford six. You can get all the performance parts you need from classicinlines.com.
Actually your car is the 50151 to roll of the assembly lines that year. Not Mustangs but all cars made by Ford. 6s were the main engine at first due to V-8s going in bigger cars.
Dacofa... There is NO possible way that Ford could put out Fifty Thousand car's in 5 days!
The car was assembled on January 5th 1966....
Coosbay, 90% of the people running the 2 and 4bbl carbs on the 200's have Aussie heads on them. All of the American 200-6 heads had integral intake manifolds.... Takes a lot of cutting and leveling and junk to make a 2bbl work for no real overt gain because intake porting is still impossible....
FE
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What's with the "5 days" thing - you think they started building 1966 cars on Jan 1? Not. "Current year" production cars start in the fall of the previous year.
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