Question for the Mopar kit builders

[bisc63]

I'm working on a late 60s-mid 70s street machine sort of build, and I want to stick a 440 in an older body. (The sort of thing a low-buck kinda guy like me might have attempted back then with junkyard parts) I pulled a couple of 440 engines from the stash: one is the optional engine from the AMT '49 Merc, and the other is from the AMT '69 GTX 440. Here's my confusion; as you can see in my pic, one engine mounts the starter on the driver's side, and the other mounts on the passenger side. Which is correct? Were there changes in differing years of production? Is one of these engines incorrectly molded? It's a detail I'd like to get right!

[BubbaBrown]

I'm old with a fuzzy memory, but I think most mopar v/8 were on the drivers side, try google

 

[Mark]

The one in the Mercury is an early Sixties 413.  It's adapted to a Ford/Mercury transmission.  The adapter included provisions to move the starter to the passenger side, where it wouldn't hit the steering box.  

[1972coronet]

All Chrysler small blocks (318-A, 273-318-340-360) and big blocks (350-361-383-400; 413-426-W,440) have the starter on the left (driver's) side of the engine.

PCV and 'Accessory Crankcase Breather' (simply 'breather') switched sides on the rocker covers for 1970-1978. with the breather now on the right (passenger) side, and PCV valve on the left (driver) side. I mention this little detail only for stock applications (including engine swaps), so that you may select the correct year if that level of accuracy is of importance to you.

[Keef]

2 hours ago, 1972coronet said:

All Chrysler small blocks (318-A, 273-318-340-360) and big blocks (350-361-383-400; 413-426-W,440) have the starter on the left (driver's) side of the engine.

PCV and 'Accessory Crankcase Breather' (simply 'breather') switched sides on the rocker covers for 1970-1978. with the breather now on the right (passenger) side, and PCV valve on the left (driver) side. I mention this little detail only for stock applications (including engine swaps), so that you may select the correct year if that level of accuracy is of importance to you.

^^^ what he said ??

[bisc63]

Got it, thanks! I had always thought the bonus engine in the Merc kit was a 440, so that was what was throwing me off, though the kit instructions don't specify. I'm sure I read it somewhere. That's cleared up, and the other engine is better detailed, so back to the build. Thanks again fellas!