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Offline Skyway65

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Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« on: April 10, 2010, 02:47:23 PM »
I need an exhaust manifold for a Dec. '64 built 200 6 cyl.  The original is long gone so I'm guessing the date code should be from Oct.-Dec. '64 to be correct.  Any chance someones got one available? ;D
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2010, 09:51:58 PM »
You may won't to try the Ford Six site as well. http://fordsix.com/forum/
That's where I found a very nice replacement for mine.
Steve
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2010, 11:47:24 PM »
Hey, thanks for that I'll check it out. 
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2010, 10:08:17 AM »
I found a Nov. '64 manifold at "Mustangs Etc." in CA.  Very nice condition and the perfect date, only 2 days different than the original intake manifold, sometimes persistence does pay off 8).
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2010, 04:46:46 PM »
Well, when I started to blast this manifold I discovered a small crack in it.   :'(  So, unfortunately, I'm still looking for a proper date coded (late '64) exhaust manifold.  Some one has to have one.  So any of you guys that did a V8 conversion please check that box of old 6 cyl junk and check those date codes for me.
Gary Schweitzer
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2010, 06:50:04 PM »
Have you checked with Bob Perkins?  I seem to remember he had an NOS 6 cyl exhaust manifold on ebay recently.  There's another one on there now from a different seller, but it has a weird date stamp.
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2010, 09:42:58 PM »
I did contact him about that.  It was an April '66 date and that weird date stamped one on Ebay had the strange "chrome" finish.  Is that the one? It had no date on it, just some letters, "KSI" or something like that.
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2010, 09:10:56 AM »
If I remember right, the one on ebay has something like "10-20-94" for a date code.  The seller mentions it in the description and there's a relatively clear picture.
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2010, 11:50:48 PM »
If I remember right, the one on ebay has something like "10-20-94" for a date code.  The seller mentions it in the description and there's a relatively clear picture.

I have one like that, it's a Ford service part, hard to call it NOS
when it's made in the 90's, but I guess it is.
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2010, 01:12:05 PM »
Bump-Still looking...
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2010, 01:04:14 PM »
I finally found another manifold.  :) Amazing the work that goes into locating one simple part.  I now have a Dec 1, '64 engine block (original to the car), a November 17, '64 intake manifold (original to the car) and a November 30, '64 exhaust manifold (not original to the car). Yeah!
Gary Schweitzer
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2010, 03:53:39 PM »
Good to hear.  It does take an incredible amount of time to do things right.
Steve
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2010, 12:28:20 AM »
Good job!  Always nice to find right parts.  Compound your item by about a thousand and that's what I've been faced with on the K convertible!   :o
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Re: Exhaust Manifold '65 6 Cyl.
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2010, 09:49:32 AM »
Charles, I can only imagine the searches you've been on (and probably still are)! ;D
Gary Schweitzer
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