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How does one identify the year of a 394?


Riley77777

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The cylinder head is P9169654</div></div>

Are you sure about this? I'm not finding anything with a P prefix. Maybe it's an F? And I thought it should only have 6 number, not 7.

Paul

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  • 3 weeks later...

OK, now this is starting to come together.

'59 and '60 394s had the center x-man bolts above and below each other (leaving room on the head's center exhaust ports for the 18 you mentioned, which I now see in my '60 shop manual). In '61 they went to the two center x-man bolts being side by side - no room on the center ports to cast a number. Those numbers, like on my '62 are on the end ports instead of in the center.

So I'd say you have a '59 or '60.

According to the '60 shop manual they only used one 394 (as opposed to 2 371s). Motor numbers started at 500001 and had a D prefix, so a '60 394 motor should be a D500001. And they were green. I don't have a '59 manual, but it appears from what I'm seeing in other publications that they used the same numbering system.

Paul

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