Check your bellhousing to verify your engine

[Joseph T.]

At least for a period of time..the engine suffix code was marked on the bellhousing. Here you can see the EH for the 1957 EH 245HP engine. This was from my survivor 57.

Joe Trybulec

[Art A.]

Re: Check your bellhousing to verify your engine

What does it say below the EH ?

[Joseph T.]

Re: Check your bellhousing to verify your engine

Art..I took that picture about 20 years ago..and never really tried to identify the other markings.

Maybe someone else can..I would like to know as well.

I can't tell if they are letters or numbers and if they are right side up to the EH...or written upside down to the EH.

Joe T

[Michael H.]

Re: Check your bellhousing to verify your engine

Joe,

Could that be a job number? Would have been put on at the St Louis assy plant as the engine was removed from the rack and fed onto the engine line. Looks like 30?

In later model years, when the clutch housing became ribbed, these numbers went to the end of the cyl heads.

[Joseph T.]

Re: Check your bellhousing to verify your engine

Michael..I too would assume..it is some kind of Job #. ( just don't know for sure .

These engine suffix code markings can be seen on the bellhousings in some of the original factory photo's.

If you have an engine with the original bellhousing and the markings are there..it is a nice bonus..and window to history.One day when I pull the Eb Rose engine out of the George Moore 54..it will be interesting to see what if any marking is on the bellhousing.

The engine is an EK blackwidow engine.

Joe T

[Michael H.]

Re: Check your bellhousing to verify your engine

Joe,

I'm not familiar with the job number usage or location for C1 but I would guess that if the system was in place at that time, the number would most likely be exactly where it's at. I suppose it was basically the same system used for C2. Have you been able to find a job number on the body?

[Joseph T.]

Re: Check your bellhousing to verify your engine

Michael..I sold the car after 20 years of ownership..and it is in good hands.

Can't keep them all..as you know.

Joe

[Michael H.]

Re: Check your bellhousing to verify your engine

I sure know that feeling Joe. Wish I had just SOME of the Corvettes today that I had in the 60's-80's. Oh well........

[Edward M.]

Re: Check your bellhousing to verify your engine

I have a 62 250 horse engine that has never been apart. Clearly written on the side of the block is the engine code 'RC'.

[Michael H.]

Re: Check your bellhousing to verify your engine

Ed,

That would be standard procedure for all small block engines of the era. It would be written upside down so the engine assemblers could see/read the code when the upside down block was traveling down the line at the Flint engine plant. It may appear "over the orange engine color" but it was actually scribbled on the bare cast iron block before paint.