1967 HP engine code.....

[Jim V.]

When checking out a 67 with a 300hp motor and A/C, I noticed a HP engine code According to the books the HP is for 350hp+A/C. Note, the block pad looks legit with the appropriate vin stamp, casting date, and casting number. Is this a factory anomaly or just a mutant? I suppose anything is possible...

[Joe L.]

Re: 1967 HP engine code.....

Jim-----

It's possible that it's a factory-incorrect stamping. However, are you sure that the engine is not an L-79? Some peripheral items could have been changed along the way such that it's currently "disguised". What is the tach redline in the car?

[Kevin M.]

Re: 1967 HP engine code.....

Maybe it was HR, my 300 327 PG A.I.R has a HR stamp. Did you mean AC or A.I.R? if A.I.R it's HR.

Kevin

[Jim V.]

Re: 1967 HP engine code.....

300hp tach...redline 5500..correct 300hp intake, carb, valve covers....etc

[Jim V.]

Re: 1967 HP engine code.....

Understand...but it is A/C not AIR....strange...

[Gerard F.]

Re: 1967 HP engine code.....

Joe,

Did they produce any base engines with A/C? If so, what would be the engine code, would it still be HE?

Jerry Fuccillo

[Joe L.]

Re: 1967 HP engine code.....

Jerry----

Likely, there were more base engines manufactured with C-60 than any others. The codes were the same as the non-AC codes for the particular transmission and K-19/non K-19 application.

I don't know why the L-79 had a special code for those with C-60. There must have been some engine plant-installed component of the engine that was specific to C-60 applications, but only for L-79 and not the base engine. I don't know what it was, though.

[Kevin M.]

Re: 1967 HP engine code.....

Got home and Nolands book pg442 reads "HP base or L79, 300hp or 350hp with C60 and N40" Sounds like your engine.

Kevin

[Mark #28455]

was it a different exhaust manifold? *NM*

[Kevin M.]

A/C with Power Steering 300 & 350 HP *NM*

[Joe L.]

Re: was it a different exhaust manifold?

Mark----

Exhaust manifolds were the same for all 67 small blocks. There was a difference, of course, between AIR and non-AIR engines with respect to exhaust manifolds and other engine plant-installed components (and, different suffix codes for these). There was no other difference for 67 small blocks, though.