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Originally posted by #6434:
OK.... I walk up to a guy with a Pantera, he tells me that his car has an aluminum Fontana engine. What to I look for from the typical open the back deck view of the Pantera engine bay. I don't have the opportunity to pull the firewall cover and open the inspection hatch. I could just roll a magnet against the back of the exposed block to confirm that it is in fact Aluminium. What do you say........ how to confirm a Joe Fontana engine?
Thanks............ Doug.H #6434
The back of the engine will look like a Windsor and not a Cleveland. Where the intake manifold sits it curves out at the China Wall area and not in like the Cleveland does. The oil pressure sending unit hole is also out at an angle toward the passenger side. The area on the block above the oil filter says Fontana on it and the opposite side of the block in the same place also says Fontana. The front passenger side of the block says HiPo, but that is going to be hard to see. This is what mine says and it is sitting on a engine stand in my garage. As you already said, if the block is aluminum, a magnet will not stick to it.
