Posted by Bill Shepherd (IP: 199.174.147.147) on August 03, 2000 at 21:37:16:
In Reply to: How can you tell... posted by Earl Pillow on August 03, 2000 at 11:46:58:
: Sorry to sound stupid, but how can you tell a Hi-po 289 from a generic 289? The owner is an old man who has owned the car for many years, and he doesn't really know much about it, other than that it has a locker rear. I can probably buy the whole car for a couple of hundred bucks.
First off true hipo 289s 271hp (K-code) were only in Mustangs and Fairlanes. They had solid lifters and 4 barrel autolite carbs. The harmonic balancer was thicker and it had hipo exhaust manifolds also a mechanical advance dual point distributor. Some of the most noticable differences. The Comet had a 289 4barrel(also called a K-code) with 220hp with none of the hipo stuff. Also I think this was only availible in a Comet Cyclone. Most were T-10 4sps. Mercury and Ford were two different divisions hense the K-codes being different. Bill