It's kinda weird. It has a big oil pressure gauge screwed right into the side of the block and it has the front mount, like maybe this was in a truck.  Someone had done some work on it in the past, the fan blade and front mount were chrome, although rusty now.  Someone had painted the lifter valley too.

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The mix-and-match hodge-podge of Y block motors. I've got three motors and not one of them had all original matching parts. No, not one. But I love em all anyway!

Heber City, UT (15 mins outside of Park City- basically it's in the mountains)

55 Effie

That's very likely a late '59 or early '60 passenger car 292 which has had the '56 intake swapped to it. The engine probably had a 2v intake when new. The heads and block are the exact numbers that mine had when I pulled it from a '59 Fairlane.


Lawrenceville, GA

These are the casting numbers I have.

Intake-ECZ-9425A

 

Heads have a lot of numbers.

6090A

COAE?

 

 

Block-

B9AE- 59 passenger car/Truck 292

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I bought the 292, or at least I hope it's a 292.  For a hundred bucks I figured I would gamble.  I can save that on core charges.  I'll post info when I get it unloaded.

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Your basic rebuild where you bore for new pistons and turning the crankshaft restores the critical clearances back to spec.  Align honing the mains and machining the decks are also recommended.  The block modifications themselves for what your wanting to do is going to be around the oiling system.  If pressurizing the rocker arms, then putting a small hole in the block behind the cam thrust plate and grinding a matching channel in the cam thrust plate to direct oil to the timing chain would be recommended.  Port work on the heads always helps but don’t overcam as you want to keep low end torque strong for towing.

 

The other oil mods reside around an adequate amount of oil to the topend of the engine.  One option is to insure that the center groove on the camshaft is wide and deep enough to do this.  But make sure you’re using a ‘hard’ set of cam bearings.  Using a ‘soft’ set simply allows the camshaft to wear into the cam bearing material and shut off the oil supply to the top simply by pinching off the oil supply at the center cam journal groove.  The way around this is to just put a groove connecting the three holes in the block behind the center cam bearing which circumvents the oil having to travel in the groove of the camshaft.  Doing this may require the use of a restrictor at the top of the head as this particular mod does increase the amount of oil going to the top end significantly.

 

Here is a collection of links going into some of the various oiling mods.

Center cam bearing

Grooving the center cam hole in the block

Pressurized rocker shafts

Pressurized rocker shaft more

Pressurized timing chain oiling

Rocker arm overflow tubes Cons

Rocker arm overflow tubes Pros

Rocker arm overflow tube More Pros

Timing chain oil trough

Adding lifter valley holes for camshaft oiling

Drilling additional holes for oiling and/or venting

Valley holes for aiding crankcase evacutation

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Recently acquired 57 wagaon, and a $100 spare block! Nice work duder!

Heber City, UT (15 mins outside of Park City- basically it's in the mountains)

55 Effie

If the intake is ECZ-9425-B and in good condition then it's definitely worth $100. The rest is icing on the cake.


Lawrenceville, GA

Just found a 292 with a 4 barrel intake partially disassembled for $100.  He said the motor was .030 over and the heads are off.  Anything I need to be leary of?  Apparently this guy died mid project.  No one knows why it is apart.  It has a truck bellhousing on it.  I figure the parts should be worth a hundred bucks alone.

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I think cam selection will help out there as well. You can talk to folks around here who are much more educated on good low end torque cam grinds ^^^ Tim is one, as well as John and Ted, and maybe even the Ol' Ford Nut. If you want bottom end the Y can give you all you more than enough and then some!

Heber City, UT (15 mins outside of Park City- basically it's in the mountains)

55 Effie