Greetings to all: I have found a 61 F600 that has been sitting in a bone yard in Michigan for aprox. 30 years. The VIN is F60DP120816. Being a "D" code 292 should make it a heavy duty version. I don't think it has sodium cooled valves but it may have a forged steel crank and heavy duty rods. If memory serves me right, which it often doesn't, somewhere I read the shorter 312 rods were used in these engines as a cheap way to lower the compression ratio? Would this be worth pursuing? That is, assuming the crank and rods are serviceable. Thanks, JEFF...................

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