Reply to "Factory fitted Holley"

OK Ron, a real quick run down on the Aussie Clevelands that deTomaso had to draw from.

First, Australia never cast ONE large port (4V) head, ever. All the 4V motors in Australia were imported from the US between 1970 & 1974; they imported M code, R code & Q code motors. There were stock piles of spare M code & Q code motors remaining in Australia after Ford ceased importation in 1974.

The Australian manufactured 351C with 4 barrell carb had heads with 2V size ports and open combustion chambers. That's the only way they made 'em. The popular Aussie heads with 2V ports AND closed combustion chambers were all installed on the 302C. Australia manufactured a 302 cubic inch Cleveland as well (3.00 inch stroke & 6.02" rods).

The Australian manufactured 351C 4 barrel carb motors were first equipped with the Autolite 4300A carb, 600 cfm, square bore design. These went into Falcon XB models ('73 to '76), the engines were Ford blue. The Falcon XC ('76 to '79) also got a blue engine, but Ford swapped to a Carter Thermoquad spread bore carb. The Carter Thermoquad has a hole pattern like the Rochester Quadrajet, the primaries are spread far apart. The Autolite 4300D spread bore carb has primaries that are nestled close together, therefore the Autolite 4300D carb will not exchange with a Thermoquad. But the Quadrajet will. The 351C 4 barrel motors installed in the Falcon XD ('79 to '82) and XE ('82 to '84) also had spread bore carbs. The motors were "metricized", the air filter decals read 5.8 liter. The metricized motors were painted black, the valve covers & air filter were painted silver. The engines were more smog tuned in the XD & XE Falcons too. The Cleveland was last produced in 1982, last fitted in the XE Falcon. Remember, all of the engines above had small 2V size intake & exhaust ports & open combustion chambers. Somewhere along the line, I'm uncertain with which Falcon model, a Bosch electronic distributor was added. The Bosch distributor had a slightly smaller shaft than the earlier breaker point distributor. This means the hole inside the block that the distributor shaft mates with is smaller diameter, and US distributors don't fit unless the hole is machined larger.

Australian Clevelands left over after 1982 were sold to deTomaso and, in a twist of fate, exported to the US.

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