ZL1 suffix code on a 512 block?

[scuncio]

What do you guys suspect happened here? Iron service replacement block for a ZL1? Looks like it was cast late 1969. Pretty cool and fairly priced IMO.

http://tinyurl.com/oj5d578

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/4McAAOSwTapV46R2/$_57.JPG

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/tGsAAOSwgQ9V0wWc/$_57.JPG

[resto4u]

not ZL1 it's a cast block. seller says corvette. and i can see a "t' where 'M' IS. Like it was TE ?

[scuncio]

That was my point, zl1 code on an iron block. Has been sold I see. Did anyone here get it?

[iluv69s]

I had a real ZL1 block that had the same stamp..with the line above the M..

[scuncio]

Cool, the stamp looked authentic enough to me. Now I wish I had bought it as a conversation piece!

[luzl78]

Maybe an original zl1 owner blew up his original aluminum motor and told the dealership he wanted an iron block instead?

[Unreal]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: luzl78</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Maybe an original zl1 owner blew up his original aluminum motor and told the dealership he wanted an iron block instead? </div></div>

Were that the case, wouldn't it be a CE coded block?

[luzl78]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Unreal</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: luzl78</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Maybe an original zl1 owner blew up his original aluminum motor and told the dealership he wanted an iron block instead? </div></div>

Were that the case, wouldn't it be a CE coded block? </div></div>yes. I would think that would be the case. The above post says there was an original zl1 with the same stamping. Maybe there was a separate stamping procedure for these special motors?

[Schonyenko2]

ZLX ?

[scuncio]

Now we're talking.

[RichSchmidt]

I couldn't see a ZL-1 being replaced at the dealer with an iron block. The ZL-1 option basically doubled the cost of the car,and the only special part was the aluminum block. I know if it were me,I wouldn't care if the service tech had to melt soda cans with a cigarette lighter until it formed a new block,I wouldn't leave the dealer without an aluminum block in the car.

[luzl78]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichSchmidt</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I couldn't see a ZL-1 being replaced at the dealer with an iron block. The ZL-1 option basically doubled the cost of the car,and the only special part was the aluminum block. I know if it were me,I wouldn't care if the service tech had to melt soda cans with a cigarette lighter until it formed a new block,I wouldn't leave the dealer without an aluminum block in the car.
</div></div>stranger things have happened.