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I must be misunderstanding something here, and if I am I apologize. Above they stated "D&R Pulling for their motor set up which is a re-casted block that has the same bore spacing, deck height, and crankshaft to camshaft center line as a 40 series Detroit engine. Navistar started producing the new gen motors with P pumps in 1994 and a year or 2 later switched to Heui injection. These were called DT466E's. They were a different design than the original DT-466's and were metric, with the intake into the valve cover initially. I was the mechanic for our school district at the time and we had a fleet of these.
Detroit signed a distribution agreement with Navistar in October 1997 to provide these engines. Navistar was not still producing the original DT-466 at that point. Is the D+R block some sort of hybrid of the 2 DT466's? Thanks in advance 
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You are correct on your analysis of the late 466 and the E models right down to the metrics. As a matter of fact you can bolt an early 400 series head onto a series 40 engine as is the case in most true series 40 shortblock usage in the sport of pulling. What I’m telling you is the locations you specified above are the same between the old and new models. The recasted block is based off of the old dt466 engine not the later version |
