Identify this block and stamp number

[Joe R.]

I recently saw this block at a friends shop.

Can anyone identify this and does it have a place in the Corvette community?

Obviously I know where it came from and the history.

Do any of you want to take a guess?

JR

[Jim D.]

Re: Identify this block and stamp number

69 Corvette, L88 with a Turbo Hydra-Matic

[Joe R.]

Re: Identify this block and stamp number

Bingo Jim!

This engine was given to a High School Shop in Tennessee by GM.

A young man dropped a washer in the carb and the first time it was cranked (turned over) it locked up. Some small marks are on one of the pistons. It came complete with aluminum heads but only the short block still exists in my friends shop.

JR

[Tim G.]

Re: Identify this block and stamp number

It would be nice to mate it to an automatic 1969 L88 that needs a motor. There is a great article in a recent Restorer about a long block L88 that was used for research at Hilborn.

[Kenneth P.]

Re: Identify this block and stamp number

A list of Chevy block casting numbers.

[Cecil L.]

Re: Identify this block and stamp number

A list of Chevy block casting numbers.

That is rife with errors and mis-information.

[Kenneth P.]

Re: Identify this block and stamp number

That is rife with errors and mis-information.

This is the web site where I got the PDF. http://www.kendrick-auto.com/casting-numbers-2/