Since the weather was nice I went to another junkyard to look around and found nothing but broken manifolds,when the motors are in the open and fill up with water so does the manifolds and will break when it gets cold enough to freeze and its worse on the pass side with the heat riser so I am still looking for manifolds.  I have one more swapmeet to look and its in Daytona in a couple weeks,found a 57 or 58 merc with a 312 and possibly a good set of heads but there was no hood and plenty of water in the motor.

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i have a set of exhaust manifolds for a 312 out of a 57 ford for sale,    for dual exhaust,    one mounting area has been welded,   their not cheap,  make me an offer

The high HP 352 I think was a police interceptor motor and there were a bunch of plain 60 4 doors but no old cop cars,if I was not going to put a Y block back in that would be the motor I would use if one could be found.  It would kind of sound like a Y block with a similar sounding starter and solid lifters.

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If you could find me a 60 360hp 352 I would take that.

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

Went back yesterday to get the disc brake spindles off a 70 torino for a friends 70 1/2 falcon and tried to find a set of 57 to 60 exhaust manifolds but no complete set but I found a PCV system on a 64 custom cab p/u that I grabbed,I do have a couple sets of 55/6 manifolds but was wanting to find the later manifolds since I heard they flow a little better then the earlier ones.  All the 57 to 59s were missing the manifolds and there was a 60 sunliner which was the only 60 Ford in there to have a Y block but was missing the drivers side as with the 60 merc,most of the 60s had FEs but none were the 300 horse 352.  I have a couple more yards to look through and will be watching ebay for the manifolds,I was suprised the PCV system was still on the truck and I think it was the only 63 to 64 with a correct year V8 in the yard but it was out back sitting by itself.  There was a 61 to 64 big truck with a V8 but I think it had a 55 to 57 motor in it as it had that style of road draft tube which I grabbed last week.

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Ah the old trip to the junkyard. Remember them well. We can't roam thru them here anymore in MI. Insurance I guess. When we were kids one of us would always need a trans, so we'd make our monthly trip to the "goldmine". We would end up buying one and throwing another one over the fence and fight the dogs for it that night. Think I still have bite marks on my legs. Fun was had by all.

Dan      Kingman Az.      86409

Just remembered another part I need and its a car oil pan but I dont think there will be any good ones at the junkyard since most of the motors are open and full of water,the truck I took the road draft tube was full and a bunch came out when it was taken off.  It was a 61 to 64 big truck with a 55 to 58? car motor including car oil pan but they put the truck carb and intake back on,when I go back for the manifolds I will look in the trunks or inside the cars but I have other sources if I come up empty handed.

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I would pass on that too.  My trip today yielded a G head, a C head, car oil pan, '56 4 barrel manifold, and a carb.  $85.  Didnt see any 312s, but there were about 10 or so blocks scattered around. 

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

I looked at the 62 292 and the front cover is drilled for the mount so I can cros one thing off my list of parts needed.

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Jeff  I am going to drag another 312 home next week,a pretty much complete engine   Carl