Quoted: My original 1979 Ford Bronco operators manual says the engine is a 400M. A 400M is a stoked 351M. All the parts I bought for the engine were listed as 400M. I know the 400 came first but every part and publication I find is listed as a 400M, to include the stickers under the hood of my Bronco. Know something I don't?. |
Technically, there is no such thing as a 400M. Nothing was stroked. The 351M came after the Ford 400. Ford only had 1 400 engine so there was no reason to have a suffix. I am betting that your sticker on the engine says 351/400M engine family. That is a typo from Ford. Under CID it lists 400 with no M. Check out an acual Ford Repair Manual at a Ford dealer. Check out a Ford Master Parts Catalog sometime. There is no 400M listed, just the plain old 400.
Once you leave the world of actual Ford factory repair manuals and Master Parts catalogs, you enter the popular world of the 400M. Many sources from Hot Rod magazine to some aftermarket parts catalogs will refer to the Ford 400 as a 400M. IT has become popular slang. For most of us who have been working on Fords for 30+ years, calling them a 400M grates on the ears worse than pronouncing NOS brand Nitrous as "nawss"