Reply to "anyone have vintage engine compartment photos to share?"

It would be interesting to compare engine build tags on the 'goose.

I'm thinking that DT may have bought the 302's all at the same time, from the same engine run.

They probably had their own account ID # in the Ford Parts system.

The problem I have with that is how would they have known how many engines to purchase if these cars were built only on special order well into the '71 model year, and would the '68 302 4V still have been serviced then?

I'm pretty sure that the engine as an assembly would have included the exhaust manifolds, flywheel, clutch and bell.

Not sure about the air cleaner.

The yellow top coil would have been installed on the engine too along with the spark plug wires and spark plugs.

An engine assembly from Ford is ready to drop in and run.

All 68 302 4v manual trans engines had air injection installed.

The automatics did not. Maybe DT ordered engines as closely as possible to what they wanted and if that was an automatic trans car, just change out the flex plate to a manual flywheel and clutch?