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Originally Posted by LMH
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Not my auction but .....
NOTES: Offered is an early 1964 model year valve. 1963 model year valves are very different and get plumbed in hard lines between the rear of intake manifolds and carburetor mounting spacers. Your engine would have had a 1963 HP289 carburetor spacer (used until the mid 1964 model year) to use with the valve offered.
Be advised that there were four different valves for 1964 model year 289 c.i.d. Ford engines of two basic internal design types. Bob Mannel's book has comparison pictures on pages 4-41 and 4-42. Versions are unique enough to identify while installed with or without their ring tags and whether or not old ring tags are still legible.
Engines going into Cobras didn’t follow all the revisions Ford made in it assembly plants so some of Bob’s information has to taken as provisional for Cobras until researched. The problem is that detailed research of Cobras did not start before most engines had been modified in some way of only through normal service. Many 1960s new car owners routinely replaced PCV valves during tune ups instead of cleaning the ones factory installed.
I personally have only confirmed the first two 1964 model year designs in Cobras with 1964 model year engines. (I have not found an intact late car with an engine built past June 1964 so I can’t comment on them. More than sixty late Cobras were completed with engines assembled during the 1965 model year.) That said CSX2190 is the latest Cobra (I have no idea when the engine was assembled by Ford.) with the first version and CSX2436 is the latest Cobra (I have no idea when the engine was assembled by Ford.) with the second version. I do know that the engine in a one owner Cobra whose engine was assembled in late April 1964 had the second design valve.
Valves listed in Bob’s book:
C3TE-6A666-B (found in some Cobras in the late CSX21xx range)
C4AE-6A666-A (found in Cobras between mid CSX22xx and mid CSX24xx range)
C4ZE-6A666-A1
C4AZ-6A666-A2
PS Unmolested elbow fittings are tough to come up with (never been wire brushed, filed, ground on, sanded, chrome plated, bead blasted, polished, acid etched, or handled roughly with tools like pliers). The C3TE-B valve is the one I see most commonly offered for sale as a new old stock assembly.
Also: Ford, GM (AC Spark), and several other companies sold service replacement valves for 289 Fords for decades. Just because their parts books use the same engineering numbers doesn't mean the service parts are 100% like original production parts.