Any truth to this 396/402 update?

[Bill Pritchard]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 442w30</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> He bought the car off the lot in 68 after getting home from Viet Nam.</div></div>

The statement above is the reason I inquired as to what model year car was in question. If this person bought the car in 68, then it was either a 68 (or older) or a early production 69 model. In either case, there was no wholesale .030&quot; overbore of 396 engines from the factory in that time frame, hence such an example could indeed have been some sort of 'mistake' from the factory.

[442w30]

Do you think the factory would have sold a car with an overbore like that?

It was a Mopar board, so for all I know he could have been getting the year wrong. It was a sub-topic/tangent in a debate about 400 SBC and BBC. Getting 3 pages worth of Brand X there without the haters coming out was interesting. :-)

[Bill Pritchard]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 442w30</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It was a Mopar board.....Getting 3 pages worth of Brand X there without the haters coming out was interesting. :-) </div></div>

Wow, that had to be a rarity, indeed!

Hard to say if the factory would have produced an engine like that or not prior to late in the 69 model year [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img] If it was a very late production 69 model car, then there's little doubt that it came that way.

[X66 714]

If a 396 built for the 1969 model year has a 3 letter suffix, it is the 402. I has an 08E of 69, 69 Camaro, 3 letter suffix, 402 inch....Joe