[bergy]

I'm not pretending to be an expert, but I can tell you that at Tonawanda we didn't usually grind bad stamped numbers off. We would just "X" out the wrong number and re-stamp the correct number. It was never a good idea to turn the production/QC employees loose with a grinder when it wasn't necessary. We WOULD grind off erroneous raised part numbers and stamp the correct part number in their place. I spent a week doing that to exhaust manifolds as a GMI student :-)

Question - if you were selling a real "BE" rear - wouldn't you remove the paint so that people could see the detail of the stamp clearly?