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Originally Posted by Jack Gifford
221 or 260 in the Meteor? (Sorry if you already told me and I forgot)
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Well, I had always thought it was a 221 based on the casting codes. After I pulled the engine and inspected it, I found it to be a 260! I brought this issue with the codes up over on a Ford website, and the best explanation we can come up with is that its possibly a service replacement block.
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