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65 Mustang 302 Engine indentify/modify

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#1 · (Edited)
Greetings to everyone!
I'm new to the forum, from Hungary.
I need a little help. I bought a 65 Mustang from Germany in May this year. I’m starting to get to know the car better and better as I work on it more and more, but one thing isn’t entirely known to me yet, and that is the engine.
It was an engine replacement, it now has a 302 F1SE engine.
(SVO Gt40 heads, Crane Cams 1.7, Flat pistons,
(I looked at it with a camera, it's almost new, it works perfectly so I wouldn't break it yet.))
Only these casting numbers appear on the block:
F1SE BB with big 4, above starter 11HO
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and a 5-digit sequence of numbers below the ignition distributor.
Could this be a disassembled or possibly crateed engine?
What else might you know about it?
Thanks in advance for the answers!
 
#4 · (Edited)
Thanks!
Unfortunately, not much is known about his past, so any help comes in handy.
With some custom modifications, the current engine specifications are as follows:
-302 cui
-Edelbrock 1406
(101 front, 98 rear jets, 1449 bars, pink springs)
-RPM Gap intake
-SVO Gt40 x302 heads
-Crane Cams 1.7
I don't know what the camshaft is at the moment, I would guess e303 or something like that.
-Flat pistons
-Long tube headers
I want to increase my output to 380-400 hp max. (on cranckshaft)
What changes do you think I would need?
I was thinking of charging this engine with a weiand 174 roots blower and a 750cfm carb..
 
#7 ·
I think the GT40-X302 is a bare aluminum head version of the GT40-X303 head assembly.
Specs: https://performanceparts.ford.com/download/instructionsheets/FordInstShtM-6049-X303X305Y303.pdf

It's too bad that I just threw out some old Summit Racing catalogs that probably had these crate engines listed.
If I recall correctly Ford's SVO 5.0 crate engines with the GT40-X303 heads and B-303 cam made 330 HP. And the crate engines with the with the GT40-Y303 heads and E-303 cam made 290 HP.
 
#8 · (Edited)
* Sorry, I wrote wrong, I checked again, y302 heads.

One of my tips was the Gt40 crate engine, as I couldn’t find any unique IDs, just a 5-digit sequence of numbers under the ignition distributor.
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Or what else was noticed in the froozen plugs is "Precision MFG 11/2 USA".
In principle, the Mustang went to Germany in 2013 from California.
 
#9 · (Edited)
F1SE BB is a 91(year designed) Thunderbird 5.0 engine block. I run the same block in my 331. From back when I was inspecting mine it appears it was made with a little bit more meat in it around the cylinders than the typical E7 block you might find on a mustang. I don't think it particularly makes it that much stronger though.
 
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