Stamping code on new head

[Bmettli]

Hi all,

I picked up a horrendous looking head at a swap meet last weekend for a mere $20. It looked fresh from a barnyard and even came with champion ford script plugs still in it. I let it marinate in Trisodium phosphate for the day and scrubbed the snot out of it. It came out a very very nice fresh casting! Very cool.

The marks on it are “11” near the top of the water inlet and stamped “15” on the inside of the water inlet. It is a high head. Any ideas what year? I assume that is Nov 15th?

Thanks

[Bmettli]

picture resizing!

[DanTreace]

Typical casting letters or digits on high cylinder heads on the uppersurface over the water outlet are just casting tool identification numerals or letters. Helps to identify the casting tooling for control purpose.

Tiny mechanical stamped numerals on milled surfaces are always inspector's stamps, again for quality control.


Here are examples. They haven't any use in telling the age or time of fabrication.

IMG_8920 (520x390).jpg (103.05 KiB) Viewed 646 times

IMG_8919 (520x390).jpg (98.2 KiB) Viewed 646 times

This one casting letter is a fun one, a "Z".....but this is a factory Ford cast iron high head. Can confuse some who might think may be the Modern Alum Hi-Compression Zajicek made , Z Head, which is marked this same way.

IMG_1139 (500x367).jpg (87.18 KiB) Viewed 646 times

[Bmettli]

Thanks Dan!