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 Post subject: BOSS 290 Engine number identification??
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:23 pm 
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Hey everyone, my brother bought a BOSS 290 (or so he was told) for his AU falcon project and he wants to make sure the engine is indeed what it is before he sources all the other parts for it. He has the engine number, but ford couldn't tell him what it was without the VIN number and he bought the engine out of a wreck that he hasn't got access to.

Here is the engine number, he's not sure if one of the numbers is a 0 or a D:

2L7E6C 0 or D 86-FB

so it would either be:

2L7E6C086-FB

OR

2L7E6cD86-FB


If anyone could give us a hand, we'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

 

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 Post subject: Re: BOSS 290 Engine number identification??
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:53 pm 
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Mine has the following with barcodes next to some of the numbers;
616316
FPVP4L16315
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 Post subject: Re: BOSS 290 Engine number identification??
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:26 pm 
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kawasakirider wrote:
Here is the engine number, he's not sure if one of the numbers is a 0 or a D:

2L7E6C 0 or D 86-FB

so it would either be:

2L7E6C086-FB

OR

2L7E6cD86-FB


If anyone could give us a hand, we'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.


That doesn't look like an engine number at all.

Should be:

FPVP6J00000 from a BF
or like XR8UTE from a BA

 

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 Post subject: Re: BOSS 290 Engine number identification??
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:47 pm 
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they look like the numbers off the heads, I am pretty sure that is a head part number anyways. Tell him to look a bit lower for the block number. :roll:

 

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 Post subject: Re: BOSS 290 Engine number identification??
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:22 am 
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Mine is a sticker on the block at the back of the valley.
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:37 am 
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XR9UTE wrote:
Mine is a sticker on the block at the back of the valley.


There'll be a laser etched number in the block, not just the sticker.

IIRC it's impossible to find on an assembled engine though, headers block it I think.

 

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 Post subject: Re: BOSS 290 Engine number identification??
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:41 am 
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XR9UTE wrote:
Mine is a sticker on the block at the back of the valley.


There'll be a laser etched number in the block, not just the sticker.

IIRC it's impossible to find on an assembled engine though, headers block it I think.


No doubt.
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:02 pm 
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The engine number is located at the front of the engine on the black behind where the alternator is.
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:08 pm 
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you also need a small mirror to read the number because of the placing of the alternator
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:44 pm 
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In the first pic, see the water pump pulley ???....then a bolt just above it ???....there is a mchined pad there...it has the engine number on it.
This is an 03 BA XR8 260 engine.

 

 

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