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By Y block Billy - 13 Years Ago
Came across an 80 year old that had a slew of Y blocks and parts he wants to get rid of before he passes on to better places. I brought one complete engine to my shop which had a B Intake with Holley 4bbl, the odd thing is it has the governed distributor which is the old style distirbutor and it has 3 vacuum tubes to it, with the later model holley for the B intake. I have a C1TE setup and it only had 2 lines to the governed distibutor. I beleive the 3rd must be some kind of throttle governer for a peice of industrial machinery. The points also have a cap over them like in a tractor.

opened it up to remove pistons and it has C1TE rods with ECZ on the bottom caps and the crank looks steel, the edges of the weights are very square, not like a typical cast crank. There was a rebuild tag from COTE in Boston on it, and it said .040 over, .010 mains and rods, I forgot to check the stroke before removing pistons, but the pistons are not marked anywhere but they do measure out to 3.790, The Crank has some funny markings that I have never seen, They don't look Ford.  I will get pics tomorrow.

Heads are the ECR-A industrial heads with the sodium exhaust valves.

Anyone know if there were any aftermarket makers of steel cranks.

Oh, Block is an EDB

By 46yblock - 13 Years Ago
Sounds interesting!  I had a set of ECR-A heads once.  Looked like and cc'd like C's.  Both had cracks.
By PF Arcand - 13 Years Ago
Billy: one way to confirm a steel crank is that they only have 6 counterweights. And the 2 end counter weights line up with each other. Issue #104, May-June 2011 of YBM, has an article on crank I.D's. And normally the crank flange of a steel crank is simply round without cutouts.
By Y block Billy - 13 Years Ago
Paul,

I know what C1TE cranks look like, I put one in my Vicky motor, but this one is odd. I'll get pics up shortly.