This engine came with a '63 Fairlane 2 door sedan car that was in parts. The owner put a 5.0 EFI in it and sold the engine to my neighbor to be used in his '64 Fairlane 4 door.

We decided to build this engine in a long time schedule while he was driving his '64 with my 200 cui inline 6 with a C4 auto tranny. But giving the reality that Turkey is coming to its economical end and the $$$$ skyrocketed in the last few years, we made a deal that he gets my 6 + C4 and i get the 221 with the Ford-O-Matic 2 speed.

So that means that i am stuck with this engine. BTW a Summit Racing 302 trades for araound $10000 where a monthly normal salary is around $270 !!!! 

I have never seen this engine running and don't think that these heads are the stock ones (the engine is orange but the heads are black). Beside that, i am missing everything on the heads. no valves, no springs, no keepers, no rockers nothing just the bare 289 heads.

Other then that the engine is fairly complete and seems to be rebuild shortly before the car was disassembled. 

I started collecting parts and this will take a while. Will do a stock rebuild and hope to get my hands on a car that this can go in. I gave my elder son a '87 Mustang convertible with a 5.0 HO and T5 in it which he still enjoys driving. Now i have to take care of my younger son and build him a car too so he leaves MY '63 Fairlane alone and i can drive it more!

Sorry, got a little long.

Mustsed
 

OK, I made a mistake with the engine ID. Looked up the numbers and the engine is a 221 V8 with '63 289 heads on. Not what i expected but thats what i have!!!

Anybody knows of a way to make this a driver.  Can't change it or buy another engine and have to work on That!

ordered a stock WP and a harmonic balancer with the outer ring but if it doesn't harm i am willing to use the stock balancer. Any ideas on that?

Here are the pics MS.

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My bet goes to the idle mixture adjustment.
Or
When you start the engine and it runs 1100rpm, close the choke plate  slowly with your hand. If engine runs you have a vacuum leak somwhere.

My 2 cents

Mustsed
 

Great detail and well done!!!

When I first got the car, i tried to decipher the VIN and noticed that there is no such VIN shown in the decoders. Later i found out that my Fairlane was an export model. As far as i could make out, the exports differ in this ways;

- Export brace stamped (likee Mustang one's)
- Bigger front swaybar
- 2 small reflectors beside the taillights (Germany, France and Turkey at least).
- Km/h speedometer
- 5 pax seatbelts (Germany, France and Turkey. Belgium and Netherlands had only front).
- Low comp. 170, 221 or 260 engines.

İf anybody knows more please share. The above list is personal research and might be wrong in some points.

Love that car but it has the worst front geaometry ever designed by ford!!!

Mustsed

Here are some pics of my setup. The wiper system is the Ford Truck intermittent type with a special switch, a controll box and a later wiper motor. The wiper motor is smaller but had to be clocked anyway. 

Hope that helps,

Mustsed
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I happen to drive a '63 Fairlane daily and had that problem too. Almost every mod on a 62-65 Fairlaine is a problem by its own. 

My car has the Metro Geo/Suzuki swift brake booster & MC installed and even with them (small) the Wiper motor needed to be clocked away.  Can't recall the mod out of my head but wasn't that hard.

Can take pics if needed.

Mustsed 

A spring has different tension during range of motion which might be complex to calculate or apply! The idea of changing the pedal ratio sounds better IMHO.

BTW Texas is right with the helper spring that acts as a return and helper spring. Stiffen that one might show some benefit to your problem too.

Mustsed
 

Thanks Bolted to Floor,

I mean the big hex head screw that is on there not the actual oil fill hole location. All that i come to see had a 1/2" countersunk square bolt.

Mustsed

Never seen a oil fill plug like this on a 9" rear end housing!?!?

Is that something special?

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Hi,

I've never seen SEALED BEAM headlights lightning up anything but themself!  Al cars i own or have owned get the headlight assembly with a H4 bulb and relay upgrade because i drive them day and night!
Over here you can't pass the inspection if you have sealed beam headlights.

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A few years ago, i bought a '68 Mustang Borgeson steering box and it was delivered faulty. After a long debate (thanks this forum) we got a new valve head and changed it. It was clearly stated that the box works with the Fox mustang PS pump which i installed onto the 302 in the '68. The car was hard to steer even tought the PS pump was a brand new unit. After a few mails, Borgeson told us that the pump was not producing enough pressure and we should buy their Saginaw unit, which we did. Car is still running with that setup!

Mustsed