79’ Little Red Express 360 and 727

67/6barracuda said
I have read countless arguments and articles about this and I’m not confirming or denying any of it. Mother Mopar never had anything absolute. I am willing to believe that some 79’ models may had or not had windage trays. This motor that I have is believed a little red motor, with no indications that’s it’s not and doesn’t have the windage tray. It does have the double roller timing chain and there is no vin on the ID pad. Consistent with literature. Now that I have on the stand. It does have the rods marked. So that also could mean it was refreshed and for some reason may have lost the windage tray for one reason or another but they would have gone the extra mile to replace the pedestal bolts for standard bolts. Just my observations so far. I’m curious of the cam and I believe the balancer is also different. According this article 79’ no windage tray.
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Where in this article does it say there was no windage tray in the 79 little red express engine?
The E58 police or heavy duty 360 all had windage trays. EH1 engines all had windage trays.
That this engine that's being talked about in this thread does not have a windage tray does not mean that it one time it did not have a windage tray. There could be a million reasons over the past several years why there is not a windage tray on that engine if it is in fact an E 58 or an EH1.
It may be that on the particular day this engine was built they had run out of windage trays but they went ahead and built engines. It's just pretty hard to tell what this engines past actually is.