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The need for cylinders to be indexed when used with floating pins is not an intended use issue, its an issue for any use, as is the effectiveness of the TCI Rattler crank damper. These things will eventually cause an owner grief, even if he only cruises malt shops on Friday night. There's a myriad of seemingly un-related issues that can arise.

Poorly machined heads are also an issue regardless of intended use; ask the Pantera owner whose CHI heads chewed the valve guides up about the inconvenience created by poorly machined heads. Canted valve heads are more difficult to machine than in-line valve heads. You can bet Pro Comp will not be as cooperative as CHI when it comes to replacing their defective parts.

Ford replaced the 5000 rpm M code motor with the 6000 rpm Q code motor about the time the first Panteras hit the dealer show rooms, circa May 1971, very few Panteras were equipped with M code motors, the vast majority were equipped with Q code motors.

An oil pan baffle and a windage tray are two different things, they serve two different purposes. Ford would not have installed a windage tray in the 6000 rpm Q code motor's oil pan unless they felt it was necessary.

-G