67 Corvette L88 engine

**Rixls6** · #1 10-20-2006, 12:09 AM

I'd like to get opinions on an engine I recently bought. It has a stamped code of T0609IT, casting number 3904351, dated E-5-7.
It came with 3904392 Aluminum heads dated 2-16-67 and 3-3-67 and they have several other stampings on them.

Does the engine code look like an original, and do any of the extra stampings on the heads mean anything? (See Pics)

This all came out of a 72 RS camaro from the Chicago area that had been sitting with this engine in it since 1986, and was purchased that way in 1984.
Anybody hear about this car years ago?

**Rixls6** · #2 10-20-2006, 12:11 AM

Sorry about the messy looking post. I just wanted to get all the thumbnails on at one time.

Rick

**Rixls6** · #3 10-21-2006, 01:11 AM

No opinions on the engine pad stamp?

Any thoughts abouts the "extra" stampings on the alumium heads?

**scuncio** · #4 10-21-2006, 07:32 PM

I'm not a stamp expert so I'll defer that question. I did have a 67 dated pair of 392 heads a few years ago that I do not remember having those type of stamps. Wish I could be more helpful; looks like a super cool find, though.

nuch_ss396 · #5 10-22-2006, 01:46 AM

I remember that shops used to put identifying stamp marks
on the heads they rebuilt. I wonder if that explains these
marks.

**Rixls6** · #6 10-22-2006, 02:42 AM

Some of the stampings on the heads could be from a rebuilder. I also think that some of them may be from original assembly at the Tonowanda plant, but I really don't know.

The heads appear to have been rebuilt once, or at least shaved once. The block is still standard bore, and doesn't appear to have been redone ever.

I'd be surprised if an engine rebuilder would put that many stamps on each head on a rebuild.

I'm trying to trace the history of the engine to determine how much has been done to it.

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