|
Register | Album Gallery | Thread Gallery | FAQ | Community | Calendar | Become a Paid Member | Today's Posts | Search |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#41
|
|||
|
|||
Re: L78 396/375 HP Long Block CKO Stamping
Thanks Mark! I felt like a lobster over here. I noticed that pad had the same 2GMEXXX stamping. Any idea what it could mean?
|
#42
|
||||
|
||||
Re: L78 396/375 HP Long Block CKO Stamping
And notice the 2 & GME & XXX are all on different angle/planes so have been done w/ 3 different hits....possibly at different stages of assy? .
~ Pete
__________________
I like real cars best...especially the REAL real ones! |
#43
|
|||
|
|||
Re: L78 396/375 HP Long Block CKO Stamping
All I really knew about the motor is where it sat for almost 20 years. I thought it would make a real neat warranty replacement motor for a 1969 or 1970 car but it never got used. I sold it for my buddy about 3 years ago then last year I end up with a LA built SS396 Camaro that I think is a L/78 but with the wrong motor in the car. If Jason's motor came out of a boat and this one looks as if it was in a boat before it was put storage. Is it possible that these were installed when the boats were being manufactured? If I remember right Mercury marine used a LS6 crate motor later on in boats. And that might help explain the additional stampings on the pad. The motor I had did not look to have been apart and still had the factory GM / TRW pistons plus the hone marks in the cylinders.
Mark Sheppard |
#44
|
|||
|
|||
Re: L78 396/375 HP Long Block CKO Stamping
[ QUOTE ]
Shoe leather tastes good [/ QUOTE ] I'm not eating anything, Marlin. Go back and read where I ask if this was a marine engine. I vaguely remembered seeing that stamping someplace and when mark posted his picture and I noticed the front of the engine it became clearer. Both these engines, Jason's and Marks were built for marine use. Rick H. |
#45
|
|||
|
|||
Re: L78 396/375 HP Long Block CKO Stamping
Rick,
What about the fact that you insisted that my pad had been restamped? Jason |
#46
|
|||
|
|||
Re: L78 396/375 HP Long Block CKO Stamping
Jason,
I never insisted anything. I haven't seen you even once consider this engine a marine engine. Good luck with your sale. Rick H. |
#47
|
|||
|
|||
Re: L78 396/375 HP Long Block CKO Stamping
Never considered it a marine engine? Here is a quote from my original posting, "This engine spent most, if not all, of its life in a fresh water jet boat." Also, here is another from the 3rd page, "I may have also been a marine engine from day one, but the stamp on the pad was NOT added." The "I" in that quote should have been It. I am very interested in learning the true history of this engine. I like to think of myself as an open minded person, maybe I have been fooling myself. Where ever this engine was originally installed I am fairly certain it left the plant with the heads that on with it now.
Jason |
#48
|
||||
|
||||
Re: L78 396/375 HP Long Block CKO Stamping
Could the ME stand for Marine Engine? Just wondering...
__________________
Bruce Choose Life-Donate! |
#49
|
|||
|
|||
Re: L78 396/375 HP Long Block CKO Stamping
If and when this thread comes to a conclusion, WE still need to learn why this 290 block casting, 1971 assembled engine, has the 1970 CKO code (?????)
Thanks,
__________________
Chuck Sharin [email protected] Auburn,WA (30 miles South of Seattle) 70 Camaro R/S Z-28, L-78, R/S SS 69 Camaro COPO "recreation" |
#50
|
|||
|
|||
Re: L78 396/375 HP Long Block CKO Stamping
I have placed the short block and heads on EBay at NO RESERVE. Check them out!
Block Rectangular Port Heads |