1964 426 wedge

Dartn440 said
I am not personally selling this. It is at the shop for sale. If I am not mistaken it would have been a Stage III, but the only thing that could be salvaged was the the internals. I can't tell you otherwise. Quality machine work and drop in ready for someone's 1964. I does not have the high compression pistons nor the higher lift cam found in the beefed up originals.

Only way for this to be confirmed as a true stage 3/max wedge block is to check the pad by the distributor. It must have the AAQA stamped into it. Otherwise, it's not a stage 3/max wedge block.

1994redram said
My friend has a set of '63 Max wedge heads and a matching max wedge cross ram that would look great on that motor! He also has a 426 block. But I think it might just be a normal block. Not an HP of sorts.

Post a pic of the casting number and distributor pad.

Dartn440 said
He may not have put the warranty in the eBay ad but he does. He has over 1900 eBay transactions in the positive. You are right, for someone not doing their own work it is just fine. It would have been nice to have had the rest of the max wedge items with it when he picked it up as a core, but that is the way it is sometimes. Last 440 I sold had an Edelbrock intake and carb but the buyer wanted six pack so we made a deal without my top end, the buyer mailed his, he installed it, tuned it, shot the video, and shipped the motor.

Like I said above, it HAS to have the AAQA stamped on the pad or it's not a max wedge block. Period. All max wedges had AAQA stamped on them. If it does not, it's simply a block produced during that one but the block wasn't chosen to be used as a max wedge. I've seen several of these blocks come up and people google casting number, see that casting number comes back to being used in 1962-1964 max wedge blocks but they miss that it was also used in standard wedges.