Engine Numbers Fun
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Engine Numbers Fun
So my coupe was not sold to me as a numbers car, but when I looked at it I noticed it was an 870 block and the pad was machined as though the block was decked at some point.
All of a sudden I got the bug to look more into the numbers for fun, I cleaned the grime off the casting that gives the date, turns out it is k 2 2, so this makes it a November 2, 1962 engine right ?
So that rules out it being the original motor for my 5/7/1964 build, I wonder was it from another corvette though, these blocks and date casting styles weren't unique to corvette engines in 62 right ?
All of a sudden I got the bug to look more into the numbers for fun, I cleaned the grime off the casting that gives the date, turns out it is k 2 2, so this makes it a November 2, 1962 engine right ?
So that rules out it being the original motor for my 5/7/1964 build, I wonder was it from another corvette though, these blocks and date casting styles weren't unique to corvette engines in 62 right ?
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Your engine is out of a 62 corvette
So my coupe was not sold to me as a numbers car, but when I looked at it I noticed it was an 870 block and the pad was machined as though the block was decked at some point.
All of a sudden I got the bug to look more into the numbers for fun, I cleaned the grime off the casting that gives the date, turns out it is k 2 2, so this makes it a November 2, 1962 engine right ?
So that rules out it being the original motor for my 5/7/1964 build, I wonder was it from another corvette though, these blocks and date casting styles weren't unique to corvette engines in 62 right ?
All of a sudden I got the bug to look more into the numbers for fun, I cleaned the grime off the casting that gives the date, turns out it is k 2 2, so this makes it a November 2, 1962 engine right ?
So that rules out it being the original motor for my 5/7/1964 build, I wonder was it from another corvette though, these blocks and date casting styles weren't unique to corvette engines in 62 right ?
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Certainly not important or significant, but given its such a late 62 motor, it might mean some poor SWC out there is missing its engine !
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A single digit representing the year in the casting date is a Flint casting.
Two digits representing the year in the casting date is a Tonawanda casting.
The vast majority of small block engines installed in Corvettes came from the Flint plant. Some small exceptions in 1965, if I recall correctly.
The Flint plant also manufactured a whole bunch of passenger car engines.
Two digits representing the year in the casting date is a Tonawanda casting.
The vast majority of small block engines installed in Corvettes came from the Flint plant. Some small exceptions in 1965, if I recall correctly.
The Flint plant also manufactured a whole bunch of passenger car engines.
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