Correct replacement engine ...

[Henri Kroeze]

Please forgive my 'dumb' question, but I'm not familiair with all the NCRS standards. I just discovered this board and I see I have a LOT to learn :-)

I have a 1979 Corvette and three years ago we had to replace the engine block. I bought a MrGoodwrench replacement. Somehow I suspect that the average NCRS judge will have nightmares seeing this under the hood. According to the NCRS rules, what would have been the proper way to fix this broken engine? Find a date-code correct one? When tearing down the old block we discovered the heads were from a different engine as well.

No, I no longer have the old block.

On the other hand, the closest NCRS judging here would be in England. Will be some time before I visit them...

Other question: can someone please specify the sportsman class to me? I think my Vette would fit in there...

Thanks!

Henri Kroeze, the Netherlands

[Jerry Clark]

Re: Correct replacement engine ...

Hello Henri:

The title of your post is a dichotomy of sorts for the only correct thing to replace your engine with is the engine that you removed, ( for the purists among us ) ANYTHING else is a replacement, correctly dated or not.

It becomes a matter of semantics. If you intend to represent your car as being original then go find your original engine. There is an excellent thread regarding restamping / stamping just below.

I won't even address the judging question because this has been a topic of debate as long as the NCRS has been looking at engines, I'll leave that to others.

jer

[Dale Pearman]

Re: Correct replacement engine ...

There is no such thing as a "correct" replacement engine! You might call it a, "judge fooling" engine. It is therefore correct to fool a judge? That depends. I beleive that fooling judges is great sport! In fact, it's "restoration perfection". I have several C1 corvettes. One with an aluminum motor (several judges asked if it was original until they woke-up and realized what they were looking at), more than one with ORIGINAL motors and several with undetectable restamps. I could lie to potential buyers and claim a restamp as original. This act would be immoral, illegal, and in fact FRAUD since I intentionally misrepresented the merchandise for monetary gain. My original motored cars are in my opinion, much more valuable than the ones with undetectable restamps.

If your original motor is missing you have no other alternative than to fabricate a judge fooling undetectable restamp. BUT...represent it as such and be careful of avoiding a fraud when you sell it. You can say "numbers matching" without bias and hope the buyer dosen't ask, "Is it original?"

There's NOTHING wrong with a restamped block, or for that matter a clean pad. I don't know what to say about consequential fraud among future owner-buyers. I'm sure that at some point the restamp will become "original"!

[Ol'Geezer]

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