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Old May 15, 2003 | 05:35 PM
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A friend of mine has a 78 pace car with very low miles and he is going for the Benchmark with Bloomington and they have sent him a questionaire he has to fill out. The question is , on the engine block there are 2 numbers , one is the casting and one is the stamping. Which one is which. Thanks for the help.....LT
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Casting # is cast into the block and at at the rear drivers side near the bell housing flange.

The stamp # is on the stamp pad, a machined surface on the block in front of the passanger side head.

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Tom, on the pad in front of the engine there are two sets of nbumbers, one is the partial serial number and there is another one on top of that..LT
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One contains the last six digits of the VIN. The other is the engine assembly/usage code. It will look like V0215CLT, where V=Flint engine plant, 0215=Feb 15th assembly date, and CLT=usage code.

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Tom, Yep thats it. Thanks a bunch.........LT :thumbs:
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