66 427 Pad Stamp Restamp?

[Astock]

About 6 years ago here in Tustin,a guy was selling his uncles 1968 Camaro Blue/Blue 210hp 16,000 mile orig. paint 4sp car. The engine code was sanded out and restamped too. I was the first person to see the car and was the person that cleaned off the engine pad for the 1st time. The owners had no idea of engine numbers.

[JIM]

Dont forget all of the Z16 engines had the last letter of the code hand stamped X
This looks like a 65 built engine if I'm reading the casting !

Jim

[SuperNovaSS]

Yes, it is a late 65 block.

Thanks guys!


Jason

[markjohnson]

"Dont forget all of the Z16 engines had the last letter of the code hand stamped X
This looks like a 65 built engine if I'm reading the casting !"

This is exactly how my Z-16 engine was, with the 'X' hand stamped. I bought that engine at a bank parking lot swap meet in St. Louis as a 4-Bolt main .060 over 427. I ran the engine for about six months, spraying Nitrous through it and everything before I took the time to actually decode it and discover it as being a real Z-16 engine! Apparently, the 1965 4-Bolt castings had thick enough cylinder walls where you could bore them out to 427's......and then some. Sorry for the OT

[SuperNovaSS]

Yes, the 65-66 962 Blocks are very thick. In fact, I'm not sure why there was a different casting number for a 427 in 66 since the 962(396 4 bolt) block is the same for all intents and purposes. The 1 and the crooked P do not bother me as far as it being a real stamping, it is the shaved pad.


Jason

[SuperNovaSS]

I think I better contact this guy:

http://www.c2registry.org/index.php?...3&uid=2580



Jason

[Tarrytown SS427s]

Interesting. Hopefully you can get a picture of the pad on his car's engine..

[Astock]

The car I was referring to is on Ebay...item # 180471628345. The seller shows the engine pad.

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About 6 years ago here in Tustin,a guy was selling his uncles 1968 Camaro Blue/Blue 210hp 16,000 mile orig. paint 4sp car. The engine code was sanded out and restamped too. I was the first person to see the car and was the person that cleaned off the engine pad for the 1st time. The owners had no idea of engine numbers.

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[SuperNovaSS]

Thanks,


Jason

[SuperNovaSS]

I heard back from the owner of the Corvette today. Surprisingly, he did not seem too interested that this was the original engine to his car, only that it was correct.

For anyone interested, here is his response:

Hi Jason



Thanks for making contact, and apologies for my delayed response. Re my car, I have tried to do some research on it in the past but I could only find out that it did come from California – which is based on a verbal comment from the previous owner who imported it into Melbourne, Australia from California. I do have details of the licence plate which shows it as being from California too, however I can’t be sure it was from Silicon Valley, sorry.



Re the block – the current pad in my car is blank but it was remachined by the previous owner, he just didn’t have the facilities in Australia to have it restamped. All other numbers on the block indicate it should be correct for my car. I do know of people in the US who could remachine and stamp it for me, but it would be a lot of effort to remove it, ship it over, and ship it back, so I haven’t bothered up to this point.



Re the ‘1’ being used for an ‘I’ i believe this was common practice in 1965.



Hence given the above it is quite possible that the block you have is correct for my car, but equally the block I already have could have been correct too. Therefore I would be interested to discuss with you further what you intend to do with the block you have, and whether you could do any further digging re its history which might link it to my car.



I look forward to hearing from you.



Kind Regards



David Alder