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8----7 6----5 4----3 2----1 front
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 front
If you lean over a fender and look at the front of the valve covers on both sides of The engine. You will notice that 1 valve cover is futher forward then the other. That will be #1 cylinder on that head. The first spark plug up front. Be advised that the 345 International V8 is timed by #8 cylinder NOT #1 cylinder. The #8 cylinder is the rear most cylinder on the passenger side.
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Number one is the front of the engine, drivers side. But you need to time the motor from no. 8.
I found 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 when I located a chart at; http://www.binderbulletin.org/forums/faq.php?faq=ihcfaq_7_0 what side of the motor is number one piston on this 345 international ?
its timed off number 8
Stopwatch
It is 345
Itself because 345/345 = 1
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That is a serial number, not a casting number. There is a great resource for looking up this kind of information at nastyz28.com, but that suffix isn't listed. I have an early (88ish) 345 hp crate motor that ends in zzz, so I'm assuming your engine is a 345 hp crate motor built in Flint, Michigan on August 1 in the mid-nineties.