How to measure deck height?

Well my cousin blew up his '00 Stang, spun a rod bearing or something equally bad. So we decided on doing a 5.4L swap in it. A local guy that I see at a lot of car shows around here had a 5.4 engine for sale for $100 so we picked that up today. Not knowing anything about the mod motors we trusted the guy that it was a 5.4 and brought it home, then looked up the casting number(which the guy was too dumb to find).

Unfortunately, it's looking like we've got a 4.6 here....I don't know any good way to tell the difference, but the deck height is 1" taller on the 5.4L. I measured from the center of the crank to the top of the deck and got 8.9", which is exactly what the 4.6 is...I have no idea if that's how you're supposed to do it, so I'm asking you guys.

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Bumpin it up

I did my best at measuring the width of the intake compared to my dad's 6.8L V-10 truck. I came up with about 14 1/2" on the supposed 5.4 and 15 1/2" on the V-10, which is a 5.4 + 2 cyl. I'm really thinking we got hosed on this deal...