Is this a corvette motor

[David H.]

I'm trying to id a motor I have found. I am told it is from a Corvette.
The engine stamp says FI2IIHT.
Also on the ledge is this 6111308 serial number.
Also the engine code is 3858174.
Having trouble with my usual charts.
Anyone want to jump in and help with this?

Any info would be helpful.

Thanks

[Mike E.]

Re: Is this a corvette motor

350 hp manual transmission engine from 66 #11308. Unless a restamp, a correct original Corvette motor.

[David H.]

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Thanks Mike.
May I ask where you found this info please?

[Mike E.]

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Inside my head. 41 years of playing with Corvettes will do that to you. The NCRS spec guide would contain that info, I'm pretty sure.

[David H.]

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Mike, I sincerely appreciate the fact that this information is "in your head", however I would really like to be able to see it in writing somewhere.
Is the book you speak of the one in the NCRS store? NCRS Corvette Pocket Specifications Guide 1953-1967.

[John D.]

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David, I believe the pocket spec guides are available for various years. I have about 5 or 6 and have them spread all around the shop and house as people think I am supposed to know all this stuff. Stuff was not my first word choice. LOL John

[Joe R.]

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Mike, I sincerely appreciate the fact that this information is "in your head", however I would really like to be able to see it in writing somewhere.
Is the book you speak of the one in the NCRS store? NCRS Corvette Pocket Specifications Guide 1953-1967.

David,

The information you seek is in Volume Sixteen Number One Summer 1989 on page 60. It's the 1953-1972 Corvette Specifications Guide. If you were a member at the time you received one in the mail. They can be found from time to time on E-babe! The pocket guide is a condensed version of that "Restorer".

JR

[Donald H.]

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You can find a lot of good books on the NCRS website. The following link is to the website book section. the 1953-1967 Corvette Specifications Guide is on page 3 of the website book section.

https://www.ncrs.org/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1&sort=20a&page=1

[Page C.]

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Hi David,
It is in fact as others have said a 1966 327/350 engine. Suggest posting this in the C2 NCRS Orphan Documents & Stamped Parts Forum. Just go to the NCRS forums, scroll down to the Orphan Documents & Stamped Parts C2 section and add it to the 7 pages of vin # C2 related parts missing from original corvettes. There has been some success in reuniting some lost the parts.

[Dan A.]

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Just a point of clarification. The number 3858174 from your photo number 3 you describe as a code. That is incorrect, it is not a code. The correct terminology for that set of numbers is casting number.

[David H.]

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Volume Sixteen Number One Summer 1989 on page 60.
Anyone happen to have a digital copy of this page available to post?
Thanks for all your replies.

[David H.]

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OK, so I have found the HT code for the '66 Corvette motor. Signifies a 327/350hp high lift cam, 4 speed L79 engine.
The F is for flint plant,
I2II is for Dec. 11th, 1966 determined by the 3858174 "casting number".

But the serial number of 6111308 doesn't make sense.
Anyone want to comment on this number and what it might mean?

[Dan A.]

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174 blocks were a one model year casting used in the 1966 model year, you have that correct. From the build date you provide this engine was built Dec 11/65 not Dec of 1966, provided the block has a casting date prior to the build date in 1965. So what is the casting date?

Car 11308 was built approximately January 17-18/66.

[Donald H.]

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OK, so I have found the HT code for the '66 Corvette motor. Signifies a 327/350hp high lift cam, 4 speed L79 engine.
The F is for flint plant,
I2II is for Dec. 11th, 1966 determined by the 3858174 "casting number".

But the serial number of 6111308 doesn't make sense.
Anyone want to comment on this number and what it might mean?

The full VIN would have been 194376S111308 if it came out of a Coupe, or 194676S111308. The engine pad was stamped with a VIN "derivative" 6111308. The 6 for 66 and the 111308 for the last 6 digits of the VIN.

[Mike E.]

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Actually, the first "1" was simply a spacer. There were not 111,000+ 66's made.