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1970 Vintage 302 Oil Burning Engine...prompted the CHP Long Block Upgrade

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Jeff Miller's GT/CS Model: 1968 GT/CS Engine: C 289 2V "C" Code Color: U Tahoe Turquoise Interior: 6K Aqua Decor Bucket Seats DSO: 74 Seattle Ordering District Axle: 2 2.79 Standard Axle Trans: W C-4 Select Shift Cruise-O-Matic Dealer: Marv Tonkin Ford, Inc. Portland, Oregon Built: 04/02/68

Shaun, Very cool. (Shaun's VIN is one digit after mine and sold at the same dealership in Portland, OR.) I'm still hunting for a "Marv Tonkin Ford Portland" plate frame for my CS. Let me know if your interested (if I happen to find a pair...I only need one for myself) BTW- My local Ford...

I've wondered if there is any logic behind the Plant letter coding. Also, anyone know where the new Mustangs are produced?

Insanity!!! http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/17/Autos/shelby_over_sticker/index.htm I wonder what will happen price-wise with the 2007 CS?

Rhonda, It's the Voltage Regulator (box) and Condensor (cylindrical thing with wire). Not sure why it's surging. Could also be a vacuum leak somewhere. -Jeff

Hey!!! Mustangs Plus is my local go-to place....I have bough A LOT of stuff from them. They have great staff and are nothing but an asset to the Mustang community. I think this whole thing is NOT cool. Didn't the Eagles (or Don Henley?) have a song that had lyrics about "...shoot all the...

Thanks Arlie. I did a compression test and all cylinders have around 150 psi. which I was told was "good". The CS's odometer rolled over 100,000 miles last summer...or 200,000..who knows. -Jeff

Hi all, Excuse my naivity regarding motors. I've got a few question about what is considered "normal" oil consumption for a stock 289. Questions are- Did these engines burn/consume oil when they were new? Like 1 quart every X number of miles? I wasn't old enough/wasn't paying much...

Where's that "Way Back" machine when you need it? Or Doc and Marty to help get us back to 1968 Milpitas in the DeLorean.

Maybe we could get our wonderful admin Jon Hanna to put up one of those mortgage calculator type Java Applets where you enter your VIN and it spits out the sequence number of your GTCS/HCS...wouldn't be completely accurate, but close. Data needed- 4118 total GTCS/HCS production 118687 earliest...

Thanks Steve, I have a C-4 also....and a mirror...and (some) determination. -Jeff

Steve, Not a problem...rain away ;-) It's just seems strange that I could have an engine that is "kind of" close. I'd think that if/when it got changed out (maybe after 10 or 15 years?) that someone could find an engine that was two weeks close in stamping numbers to replace it...perhaps...

OK. I'm not quite ready to let this go. Mostly because we think/know that the factory did some interesting things in 1968 (because of the strike and perhaps because Ford was still cranking Mustangs out at a ridiculous rate). I'll make a few general assumptions- approximately 317,000 Mustangs...

Scott, My CS has a 289. The VIN is stamped on the top of the block near the firewall behind the intake manifold. -Jeff

Hi All, Sorry if this has been brought up before, but... Did the engine stamping on the CS's absolutely match the VIN on the car? My CS has a VIN of 156609 and the block is stamped 153... Is this likely the original engine? (in that it's 3000 or so numbers off). Thanks, Jeff

Arlie/Paul, Thanks for the info. Luckily, I had one of the old ones that was in a couple of pieces, but measureable. The other one was gone I was also thinking that taking paint stirring sticks and cutting them down to size would work. they are about the right thickness. Also, the...