Engine Questions
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Racer
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Engine Questions
I'm going to have the 327 in our '64 coupe rebuilt this winter. It's not the original block, because it's stamped FO92IEE. The 4-barrel AFB intake is date coded A134, which should be OK for our Feb. build date. It also has double hump heads, so I've assumed that it came from the factory as a 300 hp engine. Two things are a little confusing to me. The first is that it has a fuel injection fuel pump, and the second thing is that the distributor shield has FI stamped on it. Is it likely that these 2 components were simply added by mistake? Is there a way to verify what engine was in the car when it left the factory, if you have no documents from the car?
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I'm going to have the 327 in our '64 coupe rebuilt this winter. It's not the original block, because it's stamped FO92IEE. The 4-barrel AFB intake is date coded A134, which should be OK for our Feb. build date. It also has double hump heads, so I've assumed that it came from the factory as a 300 hp engine. Two things are a little confusing to me. The first is that it has a fuel injection fuel pump, and the second thing is that the distributor shield has FI stamped on it. Is it likely that these 2 components were simply added by mistake? Is there a way to verify what engine was in the car when it left the factory, if you have no documents from the car?
That #40083 fuel pump was used on both the L76 (365hp) and L84 (375hp fuelie) engines, and it was also used on other Corvette small-blocks through 1966, so it's not much of a clue either.
If you'll look closely at the distributor shield, you'll see that it has both "FI" and "CARB" stamped on it, adjacent to two different slots where you insert the ground barb to the tach drive - the same shield was used on all engines.
