What are you gonna do with a set of heads that mount on the bottom of the engine? :-} Chuck

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

I think you mean the heads ended with C . Most head numers started with E.prefix, ie, ECZ, ECG





yyy

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

Unfortunatley many facts and details have been distorted by hearsay, personal opinions, and whatever one wants to believe, here in Australia, accurate record details on production, manufacture and facts have never been really kept, compared to the US car manufacturers. Hence i can only add what i believe and stand in line to be run over.

There were NO 292 cars here untill the 1960 F600 Truck on, it also came in HD version with spider wheels and 2 speed diff,steel crank, bigger rods and double row t/chain. There were very low number of Goverment ordered sedans with 292,s police/special use. I have seen them," 58-59 starmodel" with ECG- S, which is cast between exhaust ports. The 272 blocks were cast in Canada and finish machined here.

yyy

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

Not to mix up Argentine 292 engines , i.e. phase 11, with regular style heads used on normal y blocks.

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

Gary, you are right, i believe 292 was only avail to government cars by order. I have mate with 58-59 Starmodel Government parade car, has the flag holders on hood and fenders, he swears it was ordered with 312. Of the 6 Gov cars i have been involved with, they have been 58 -59 starmodels, with manual trans and noted leather seats with center arm rests and center roof aerials. As i have said before, accurate or any record keeping here by Ford was poor or just lost to time. I have made enquires to Ford Archives here with no reply.

yyy

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

Hi Bill,

I took that info about the 'C' prefix before the casting number from ford-y-block.com cylinder head identification chart which states a 'C' prefix before Cylinder Head casting # indicates Canadian, Australian or South African Export.
Like you say Australian Y block records are non existent or not so good. What types of heads are you predominantly seeing on original Y Block engines in Australian cars? I wouldn't think there would be that much variety but could be wrong.

Cheers Woody

Bill, you'd think they would have cast the blocks and heads in Australia. Must have been expensive to ship them from North America! How about the Frames and sheet metal? Obviously the Utes are different from our cars.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

Frank, as i said earlier, accurate info is hard to substantiate here on manufacturing here, i allways thought/assumed the lot were made here after 55 but various input from other scources often contradict that. WE shall look into it a bit further. Wish you and the guys a MERRY XMAS.

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

Bill,
Heck, shouldn't be hard, was only 65-70 years ago and Ford's Shutting down there!!

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

To my knowledge most of the parts were exported from Canada to Australia.

Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were all part of the British Commonwealth. These countries as part of the commonwealth had a preferred tax rate for trade between each other. I have been led to believe Ford used this as means to get their products into these countries using Ford of Canada as the conduit.

When Ford of Canada finished stamping the 56 Fords the dies were disassembled and shipped to Australia to make the Australian Star models.

I have never seen any Yblock heads that had been mfg in Canada. All the heads I have seen on Canadian cars were from the Dearborn Foundry and no ECZ heads mfg after May 57 so no posted ECZ heads either. If someone in Oz could check the heads on an original Oz car they likely to find the heads are Dearborn Foundry.

The Canadian manual transmissions have a nub cast on the housing which is not tapped whereas the USA transmissions do not have this nub. When the Australian Dazzle car was still in Canada I saw this nub tapped for a bolt to hold either the clutch linkage or shift linkage for RHD. Bill could correct me what this linkage is used for.

marv