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Anthony,
My 1969 Torino Cobra is still just as I took delivery of it and there is a huge difference in the Q and R code 428 CJs. I saved my Mustang Ford Trader magazine from April 1998 and it has a three page article about the differences. The R code has 427 heads, and a lot of stronger bottom end stuff. I have had mine apart and it has 427 numbers on the rods and everything. Mine is in the Cobra Registry and they only made 97 of my particular type. Mine has all NASCAR drive train and the dealer did bore the motor and blue print it. I still have the original old Polyglas tires on it. Also the R code cars had to run in the 400 horsepower plus class at the drags. If my scanner would scan words I would send you a copy of that article. I saved it because a cop that is a friend of mine was arguing that my car never came with the stuff in it that it has and I showed him that article and he called Ford and they verified it. So there really is quite a difference in the 428 CJ and the 428SJC. My car was also checked for over an hour by the Fairlane Club of America's president a few years ago and he said it was really the only one just like it he had ever seen but it definately was one of the original 97 of that setup.
Ron
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