Please id the Engines in the Below picture>

[Larry E.]

Care to guess what kinda GM Engines these are? Could be Chevy S/B-B/B- or possibly Pontiac.

Thanks>Larry

[Chris H.]

[Owen L.]

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The size of the valve covers also says big block to me. Not enough detail to see a front or rear distributor placement...

[James G.]

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You can make out the black waterpump by pass hose on a number of them. I agree MarkIV BB.

[Mark E.]

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Pixalated but looks like BB Chevys with short water pump and Corvette exhaust manifolds.

[Owen L.]

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Pixalated but looks like BB Chevys with short water pump and Corvette exhaust manifolds.

Those aren't the Corvette big block passenger-side manifolds. In the photo, cylinders 2,4, and 6 are connecting to a much more horizontal section than the very V-shaped Corvette design.
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Perhaps they are the '65-'68 Impala, Chevelle, Nova, Camaro 3884504:

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[Mark E.]

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Those aren't the Corvette big block passenger-side manifolds. In the photo, cylinders 2,4, and 6 are connecting to a much more horizontal section than the very V-shaped Corvette design.
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Perhaps they are the '65-'68 Impala, Chevelle, Nova, Camaro 3884504:

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Corrected!

[Larry E.]

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OK and thanks>BB Chevrolets for sure. Care to guess total Horsepower?? NO JUST KIDDING; don't try. Larry
P.S. One could only imagine the weight on that floor; hope that Concrete is very thick!

[Richard S.]

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Looks like they used a hand operated hydraulic forklift to move six big blocks at a time including the rack. No idea how they elevated the top three levels into position.

[Owen L.]

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Each rack of 3 engines would be right about a ton plus the rack weight... so maybe 2500 pounds?
I assume the engines were shipped to the assembly plants on those racks... so how many racks of 3 could be shipped in a single rail car?


(Just academic mind excercises. In the early '80s, I drove my mother's '58 from Pennsylvania to Arizona. Due to shear boredom, at one point I figured out how many of the interstate highway white dashed lines would go by during the entire trip.)

[Mark F.]

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Each rack of 3 engines would be right about a ton plus the rack weight... so maybe 2500 pounds?
I assume the engines were shipped to the assembly plants on those racks... so how many racks of 3 could be shipped in a single rail car?

[James G.]

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2500 # is not much on a floor... we had many rolls of paper which weighed 5 tons some as much as 10 tons. We double stacked them in the warehouse sitting on 2 - 3ft long 2x4's with 10" floors we only had issues at the rail docks when the lift truck with 5 ton rolls of paper kept hammering the dock boards & collapsed the floor, mainly because of settling of the compacted fill dirt (not well enough)

Academic mind exercises ... lol I used to pick a random number and figure the square root in my head to a min of 5 decimal places while traveling on sales trips in the middle of nowhere.

[Mark M.]

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Back in the 80's and 90's I worked with contractors to removed and installed machines for the lines and the structural changes in the Tonawanda engine plant. At the front of the plant there were a number of engines through the years the plant had made, on display, 235, 409, Z11, ZL1, L88 marine engines and during ww2 radial engines. I remember checking them out back then. In 2013 the plant had it's 75th anniversary and a 67 L68 I restored was invited to represent the 60's as a car for each decade was used. They had an impressive event celebrating past work and showing future engines like their current vette engines. The display of past engines was even bigger. It was the first time I was back in that plant since the 90's and boy did it change. Gone were many hands assembling an engine and automation is everywhere. The plant seemed much cleaner. I think it was around 2010, a friend working with a crew in the plant told me he was tearing out the big block line . He described the broach line and said they just scrapped most everything as they rigged it out. The picture you posted Larry could be a building we worked in back in the 90's where big blocks were stored on those racks. Fork trucks are used to stack and load racks. Both buildings have rail and truck docks. The pictured engines look like 60's or 70's vintage. The picture could be at a GM chassis line.