Your Too lucky! First thing I noticed was your heater hoses are missing, but you have AC. Wish I was there with you.

Ol'ford nutCentral Iowa

56 Vic w/292 & 4 spd.

Sweet ride, and as said, that Y looks right at home.

I resist posting Epay so as not to draw additional attention to auctions fellow members may be bidding on, but here is a wire set you might be interested in, and the holders are available from nearly any Tbird parts supplier for similar money...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380188704952&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Cheers... Brian

Cylinder Index = 84

Current Experiment = `57 Tbird, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Very nice car!    I think you have done a wonderful job, it's good to see some of the South American stuff.

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias

Did you get the Phase 2 engines in Argentina? The body looks like a US 1967 or so.

I heard of a Brazilian 1972 LTD with a Y-Block that turned up in the States. Not sure the exact year they changed to the Phase 2.

http://ford-y-block.com 

20 miles east of San Diego, 20 miles north of Mexico

Very nice wheels.John Mummert says 67 but its actually a 65 Galaxie 500 with some exterior trim differences like the taillights.As far as wires I purchased the ones on this sellers last auction.Dont have then yet but I am sure they will be a better fit than the aftermarket ones I have now.I prefer original Ford parts over aftermarket when I can get them.I just received an order from Dennis Carpenter .(Ebay item # 110462489012 if anyone is interested).I bought 2 of the lower control arm mounting kits consisting of 2 mounting bolts and 2 bushing as well as washers and lockwashers.The parts are made in China.Not real impressed but I assume they are up to the required strength rating.(I hope so anyway).The bushings are not as good as the Moog ones I already have.Much "softer" rubber used in the Chinese ones.As I said I prefer original Ford parts when available.Anyway its very interesting to see this beautiful Ford from Brazil.

  

That's a beautiful car.The body is based on one of Ford's all time great cars,the 66 full size.The hood is the same as a 67 fullsize Mercury.Very nice car!!!!!!!!

 

Paul,

Boonville,MO

Thank you for the support.

I have the spark plug wire retainers, what I can't find are the wires.

I have little experience with the Argentine Y-Blocks, but the Brazilian engines, are just like a '56 272/292 USA engine, sience the production started back in 1956 to fit the engine bays of Ford F series trucks.

When Ford started producing the Galaxie here, the car was the '66 US model, only with an Y in place of the 289, 352, 390, or 427 engines. After all, the Y was already in production, and other engines would need to be imported, witch was difficuld at the time due to goverment restrictions.

My car is a '74. In '73 Ford did a slight facelift, with a different hood and taillights ('73,'74,'75 Galaxies were just like mine, except the LTD version).

Back in '69, the engines were updated to 292 C.I.

My buddy Maycon did a rebuild on a '56 Ford engine, and the only difference betwen the US engine and mine were the spin on oil filter adapter.

I belive, that the fase II argentine engine has some sort of head change? never saw one thought.

My accessory drive is stock from Ford (I'm not that creative hehe) only with an adaptor to use a Sanden compressor in place of the stock York.

Yes, I removed the heater hoses. Who needs a heater in Brasil?

The A/C is a necessity.

My other galaxie, a 1982 Landau still has the heater in working order, and the York compressor, as well as the factory paint, vinyl top, and upholstery. The engine is a 302 Windsor, thet ford used since 1976 in place of our beloved Y.

I think I would end buying a set of wires from E-bay, but not just now, I spent a lot on the engine rebuild.





1974 Galaxie 500 brochure.





1974 Galaxie LTD Landau brochure.









A '67 Galaxie 500, the first made in Brasil (is a '66 US with an Y-Block)





My '82 galaxie Landau.









The old 302 (45.000 Kms from the factory)








Túlio Lazzaroni "FORD", Florianópolis SC Brasil.

'74 Ford Galaxie 500 292 V8

'82 Ford Galaxie Landau 302 V8

'98 Chevrolet S10 4.3 V6

'01 Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec

Verrrry Nice Ride!! Do the Y-Blocks in your country ever get these heads? They also require different exhaust and intake manifolds.

http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar:80/MLA-69394168-tapa-de-cilindro-ford-v8-fase-2-para-reparar-_JM

Jim

Jim, are you located in Argentina? Wish I could read the Advertisment... And you both write English very well. Thanks for sharing your Y-Blocks...

BOB

Jim, the Y-Blocks here in Brasil never got this kind of heads. Our heads are just like the North American heads, with the two central cilinders on each head having the exhaust valves side by side.

This heads, appear to have the valves in an alternate mode, like e/a, e/a, e/a, e/a.

Bob, I don´t know about Jim, but I'm from Brasil, and have being in the States once.

This heads on the Mercado Libre (Mercado Livre in portuguese) or Free Market in english are made in Argentina. I think they are what in Argentina is called the "fase 2" or phase two Y-block.

I never saw one of those heads in person, only in pictures. I think that a USA made camshaft would not fit an engine with this heads.

Its very interesting that the central cilinders don't have the exhaust valves side by side, that's just the starter of all the discussion about the steam holes. In theory, the Argentine made Y-block phase two, would never need the steam holes at all.

I woul love to see the exhaust manifold of one of this engines.

Would it look just like a bigger version of a 302 manifold?

Túlio Lazzaroni "FORD", Florianópolis SC Brasil.

'74 Ford Galaxie 500 292 V8

'82 Ford Galaxie Landau 302 V8

'98 Chevrolet S10 4.3 V6

'01 Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec