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There is another subtle external difference to the rocker covers as fitted to ‘D’ blocks, and U.S. and Australian ‘square’ blocks.





The ‘first’ type, dimpled cover has the ‘Power by Ford’ logo enclosed in a ribbed box which has larger rounded corners as shown above.

Whereas the ‘second’, chamfered cover has a much tighter, almost square corner to the surrounding ribbed box.

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The ‘second’ style rocker cover was introduced with the ‘square’ block and it has a much more pronounced chamfer to the front corner.





While it is generally accepted as a rule of thumb that it was only the ‘square blocks that had this cover, there is some evidence to show that a few ‘D’ blocks also were fitted with these ‘second’ type rocker covers.

When Australian manufacture of the 351C started, this was the rocker cover that they initially produced.

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This is an original XY GT with a ‘D’ block and the ‘first’ style rocker covers with the small dimple in the closest corner of the cover. These rocker covers were supplied on all of the imported ‘D’ block 351C’s, whether they were 4V or 2V.





A 351C 2V from the ZD fairlane brochure.