bstrange99
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I've spent 4 days searching every corner of the internet, but to no avail.
Here's the story...I've been looking around for a 350 to replace the tired 305 in my 83 half ton pickup. My aunt ended up buying, at auction, a delinquent storage unit that had two small blocks, among MANY other car items in it. both blocks were the same casting number, one with heads and one without. I measured the bore and came up with 4 inches. So I assumed they were 350's, and I bought the one with heads on it (461 double hump heads).
I started researching the casting numbers, and it appears to be a 1965 300-375 horsepower 327, possibly from a corvette.
Now, here's where the confusion comes in.
The head casting numbers are both 3782461, with dates of H175 and H185, telling me they were cast on August 17th and 18th, 1965.
The block casting number is 3782870, BUT...The pad stamp is FI205R. All the information I've found says Flint, September 20th, 1965, but the date code cast into the block is K223, meaning November 22, 1963.
WHAT"S IT ALL MEAN?
If this is a 65 vette motor with matching numbers, I really think it deserves a better home than my pickup.
Sorry for the long post, but I"m really lost on this. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Brian
Here's the story...I've been looking around for a 350 to replace the tired 305 in my 83 half ton pickup. My aunt ended up buying, at auction, a delinquent storage unit that had two small blocks, among MANY other car items in it. both blocks were the same casting number, one with heads and one without. I measured the bore and came up with 4 inches. So I assumed they were 350's, and I bought the one with heads on it (461 double hump heads).
I started researching the casting numbers, and it appears to be a 1965 300-375 horsepower 327, possibly from a corvette.
Now, here's where the confusion comes in.
The head casting numbers are both 3782461, with dates of H175 and H185, telling me they were cast on August 17th and 18th, 1965.
The block casting number is 3782870, BUT...The pad stamp is FI205R. All the information I've found says Flint, September 20th, 1965, but the date code cast into the block is K223, meaning November 22, 1963.
WHAT"S IT ALL MEAN?
If this is a 65 vette motor with matching numbers, I really think it deserves a better home than my pickup.
Sorry for the long post, but I"m really lost on this. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Brian