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What heads are these?

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I went to look at a 92 lx for sale yesterday. The guy didn’t know kind of heads were on it. On one corner there was a “II” on another corner a “7” and another had a “P”. Are these gt40P heads? Does the “II” mean anything? I’m not going to buy it since the strut tower and floor boards were rusted through but I’d still like to know.
 

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GT40 heads have the 3 bars on the front and GT40P heads have 4 bars. Under the valve cover you may see a GT40P there, but not 100% (Seen them with/without).
Casted into the lower head bolt by cyl#s (1) or (8) -there is GT for GT40 heads and GTP for GT40P heads.

The E7 heads are typically identified by removing/confirming the E7TE Cast into the Exh. side- bottom of the Head-Head removed....But, A mirror or small Borescope with an attachment Mirror may also allow you to view the ‘E7TE’ cast into the exhaust side, on the Head bottom, while installed.
If you don't identify the heads as being either GT40 or GT40P heads then there's about a 98% chance that they're E7 heads. Rare, yet possible non E7 if someone was building the motor with whatever available 5.0 Parts were on hand. Good luck! J
 

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It's not too often someone changes the heads, but not the headers.
 

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I believe e7s are marked with a "T" on the end.

E6 have "S" if I recall. They aren't gt40 or gt40p, unsure what e5 heads are marked on that corner with
 
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Another piece of info... the engine did have a gt40 intake on it (I think from an explorer).
 
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You're showing pictures of the wrong corner of the heads. You're showing a pic of the #5 (driver front) and #4 (passenger rear) cylinder corners. You need to show pics of the #1 (passenger front) and #8 (driver rear) cylinder corners.

But the pic you didn't show that says "P" is indeed GT40P.
 
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