Some pics from a SOHC block I found

[hotrodfeguy]

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r264/hotrodfeguy/downsize5_zps31d82c60.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r264/hotrodfeguy/downsize2_zpsfae0b234.jpg
and here come the interesting ones
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r264/hotrodfeguy/downsize3_zps9af85228.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r264/hotrodfeguy/downsize4_zps142cab7c.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r264/hotrodfeguy/downsize_zpsb46023f9.jpg

[jayb]

Doesn't look like the frost plugs holes are threaded for screw-in plugs.  Or is that just the picture?

[hotrodfeguy]

Nope not at all,  64 CAMMER block no screw ins yet

[machoneman]

Nice find HOTROD! In the interest of having more folks see this block, see the linky from the old FE Forum:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/74182/thread/1363645924/Earliest+SOHC+block+----

[jayb]

I have an article from an old Car Life magazine showing a 64 Galaxie with a cammer installed.  If I recall correctly it is one of the early SOHCs, with the spark plugs towards the bottom of the chamber, not the top.  Pictures showing the engine from underneath show that it is not a sideoiler, just a standard 427.  Maybe that's what your block is, one of the real early sideoilers designed for the early heads.  Pretty cool find, in any case...

[BruceS]

To Hotrod and all, any significance to the IE X mark on the rear of the block?   Curious minds would like to know!