[Old Truck Man]

Lots of bigger trucks had 409 & 348 engines. The truck engines both the 409 & 348 have the dipstick on the passenger side of the engine. the car 409,s have the dipstick also on the pass side the car 348 has the dipstick on the driver side. the truck engines have a notch on the cyl wall to lower the compression. Back in the day they where kinda like a flathead ford. If they where good they where great. Overheat them one time and you had cracked heads or block or blown head gaskets. Really cool looking engines. I had a 348 with tri power carb,s and crome valve covers. I too would vote for stock cast iron exhaust manifolds.