help decode 429

[351cobrajet]

i bought an engine ,i was told it was a 429 thunderjet,the #'s i found was DOVE-A and 0Y120988 is that the info i need and how can i tell what i have?
thanks for any help

[vara4]

I know it's a 1970 from the dove but I am not sure about the rest.
Lost a buch of my records when my last computor crashed.
You might try some of these links from this site, Ricks gots lots of good info
on his site. Kurt
http://loco4fomoco.com/1965_ford_falcon_ranchero.html
also Ford muscle.com

[Paul Kane]

i bought an engine ,i was told it was a 429 thunderjet,the #'s i found was DOVE-A and 0Y120988 is that the info i need and how can i tell what i have?
thanks for any help

D0VE-A is the block engineering revision of your cylinder block and is for the 1970 model year and most of 1971, too. 1970 & 1971 429's were Thunderjets. The engineering revsion of the heads are on the outside of the heads, between the 3rd and 4th exhaust port and for a T-jet should read as D0VE-C.

Paul