COPO Engine On Ebay

MotownMadman · #1 05-20-2004, 04:18 AM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...K%3AMEAWA%3AIT
Click on link, priced right at the moment with no reserve.
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resto4u · #2 05-20-2004, 05:49 AM

"Engine has been decked, stamp your own codes" as said in auction. What proof is there that this was a camaro copo engine? Could this be a corvette block with a cleaned pad? Roger

Pantera · #3 05-20-2004, 07:32 AM

That sounds more like a everyday 425 hp 427 to me. I would think it would have more L-88 or ZL-1 parts on it but it doesn't. The date codes are about as close as you could come to a "COPO" and the intake is a 425 hp with too early of a date is it not?

sounds like a CE motor or one that has been decked so that it would have the "Correct broach marks" ????

68z302 · #4 05-20-2004, 08:55 AM

OK so I'm a dummy.
Please explain broach marks

**Charley Lillard** · #5 05-20-2004, 09:38 AM

Broach marks are the marks left on the block surface after it is machined. Back in the 60's it was done with a machine that left straight lines going from front to back. Machine shops usually surface a block and leave circular marks instead. Here is a pic to see the orig type marks, Hope I explained it. People faking cars quite often surface the block and then restamp it to make it #'s matching so it is important to examine the broach marks to make sure you are not getting a fake.

68z302 · #6 05-20-2004, 04:52 PM

Ahhhhh, That's interesting. Something to look for in the future.
And they say you suck

Thanks Charley

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