Mustang Questions, Not for the Faint of heart!

I got one of those engines. Never ever got a straight answer about it either.

Well, have most of it, anyway.

There for a season, Ford was trying to push up sales of the 200 inch six in the Mustang. It was being advertised as next hottest thing to a V-8. They made special blocks and heads, and few other things. I beleive it was all aimed at European Rally (long distance) racing. My engine currently has what looks to be a standard head, but with the funny earlier valve train on top. The adjustable rocker variety. A former friend of mine located it from a Formula Ford shop, but the correct racing cylinder head, carb. etc, had been sold off years prior. Most everything else fits one another. We got the parts, the vendor shrugged us off, but mentioned we could later on come and read through his official paperwork on the engines, for there were many differences between it and a standard 200 as placed in a Mustang. It was designed to run full throttle for hours at end.

It took me forever to obtain the $$ and gumption to rebuild the engine. When I went back about nine months later on how to adjust the valves, the shop was out of business. I can remember reading the few pages of books he had on the engine, and it was printed in French, Italian and Swedish besides English.


Wm.

There was shortage of V8's for a while in '66 so Ford did the "Six and the Single Girl" campaign to boost sales of I6 cars. Apparently it was quite successful too. I have a picture of a magazine ad for it somewhere. Stu

Hi Falconaround,

There are lots of early Falcons and Mustangs running tri-carb setups. Check us out at FordSix.com.

Most of us run direct mounted Holley two barrels though. A properly jetted 350 makes good power and is still fairly economical. A 500 works nice on a hot six.

An aluminum head has been developed for the Ford six. You can get all the performance parts you need from classicinlines.com.

Keep it inline and keep on sixxing.

Bob

Actually your car is the 50151 to roll of the assembly lines that year. Not Mustangs but all cars made by Ford. 6s were the main engine at first due to V-8s going in bigger cars.

Dacofa... There is NO possible way that Ford could put out Fifty Thousand car's in 5 days!

The car was assembled on January 5th 1966....

Coosbay, 90% of the people running the 2 and 4bbl carbs on the 200's have Aussie heads on them. All of the American 200-6 heads had integral intake manifolds.... Takes a lot of cutting and leveling and junk to make a 2bbl work for no real overt gain because intake porting is still impossible....

FE

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What's with the "5 days" thing - you think they started building 1966 cars on Jan 1? Not. "Current year" production cars start in the fall of the previous year.
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Damnitt ckelly! You got me! I friggin forgot that september october started the new year model line.... I suppose they could have cranked out quite a few in 3 months but I doubt that the Jose plant did that many...

Anyhow... All of the parts have the 1965 casting dates on them so I'm doing her Ford Black and Ford Red! [img]/forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Thanks for all the replies guy's!


FE
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My buddy has a 2bbl adaptor and 2bbl on his 64 ranchero 200 with a 4spd and it's definitely faster than when he had the single 1bbl carb.

After all the port work and port matching on the exhaust I've done this little 200 is going to pop a nut just firing it up! [img]/forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] : ) [img]/forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

You'll see in the other post when I finish the block.

FE
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I haven't heard of a 200cid 6cyl with adjustable rockers in it but I sure wouldn't be surprised if someone added them. After having a 200cid machined I found insufficient valve clearance (opening too far) and I was desperately considering options other than buying shorter push-rods (which is what I ended up doing). I couldn't find adjustable rockers or push-rods.