Canuck62

Did all 62 corvettes having the casting # 3782870 and was it only used in a corvette

Geralds57

Yes for the Corvette. Also used in passenger cars and trucks, 62-65.

65 Pro Vette

Most pass cars and trucks had a T stamp on the front pad and Corvettes where built with F Flint

Canuck62

Thank You

JohnZ

Actually, Tonawanda (the "T" prefix) built 5,500 engines per day, and Flint V-8 (the "F" prefix) also built 5,500 engines per day; only 120 of those Flint engines went into Corvettes - the other 5,380 per day went into passenger cars and trucks, as did the 5,500 engines from Tonawanda. Flint built 300 engines per hour (one every 12 seconds), so it only took them about 20 minutes (of their 18-hour day) to build a day's worth of Corvette engines.

65 Pro Vette

What I was saying, is Tonawanda did not build engines for corvettes in 62. But they used 2870 blocks in Tonawanda the casting was different and the date code was different.

Pilot Dan

That is really an extraordinary statistic by anyone's standards. Think of all the bolts, gaskets, little clips and adjustments ect ........... even with GM's tooling and machines to speed up assembly, still amazing!