Decode SB Chevy deck stamping?
 

Can anyone decode this deck stamping?

Here's the block # 3892657

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...-58-51_540.jpg

Here's the deck stamp BE7180CAL

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...-54-59_125.jpg

Re: Decode SB Chevy deck stamping?
 

Eric, the casting number comes out to a 1967 302, 327 or 350.

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The pad looks like a restamp to me? The reason I say that is how high the top of the water pump appears to be above the block. IMO

Kurt

Re: Decode SB Chevy deck stamping?
 

Kurt;

I got the block #'s decoded out as a `67 302, 327 and 350 block. The deck stamp is the mystery as it doesn't correlate to anything I've ever seen/heard of. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]

Maybe some sort of rebuilders stamp is all I can come up with....

*edit* to add, customer reports this has been this way 20+ years, car w/engine came out of California.

Re: Decode SB Chevy deck stamping?
 

Font on the deck stamp doesn't look right to me.

Re: Decode SB Chevy deck stamping?
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VintageMusclecar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Kurt;

I got the block #'s decoded out as a `67 302, 327 and 350 block. The deck stamp is the mystery as it doesn't correlate to anything I've ever seen/heard of. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]

Maybe some sort of rebuilders stamp is all I can come up with....

*edit* to add, customer reports this has been this way 20+ years, car w/engine came out of California. </div></div>

<span style="font-weight: bold">CAL = rare California block [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img] </span>

Re: Decode SB Chevy deck stamping?
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69z28302</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Font on the deck stamp doesn't look right to me. </div></div>

I'm with you too!

Re: Decode SB Chevy deck stamping?
 

3 digit suffix codes started in the 70s. So, it's a restamp of unknown origin.

Re: Decode SB Chevy deck stamping?
 

I doubt it a restamp. There is no reason for that with this layout. What it appears to me is that it may have a marine application in its past.

Re: Decode SB Chevy deck stamping?
 

Marine came to mind for me as well.


Jason

Re: Decode SB Chevy deck stamping?
 

I don´t know about this stamping but I had a 327 from a 1972 Opel years ago that no one could decode. So there are some oddball engines out there. I ran across another of those V8 Chevy (in Opel) engines some years later. I think that the second 327 was built in 1974, definitely long after the 327 was gone in the USA.
They used the rams horn exhaust manifolds from the 1964-67 Chevy II. But that´s another story.