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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: 68jim] #1568224
01/26/14 06:45 PM
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I agree on the not painted part.




I also agree, but I am leaving the door open for other possibilities. I've seen quite a few NOS blocks (so far all bare) but have seen a fair number of warranty installed examples also, and some offer clues pointing towards some of them possibly being factory painted. Hopefully we as a group can keep investigating and add to the details we know about these.

Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: ScottSmith_Harms] #1568225
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Wouldn't it make sense for someone to paint an engine just before installing.
If I were putting an over the counter block in back in the day, I would certainly have painted it.
I cant see the factory doing it..but then I wasn't there either.
The picture of your painted engine with the blue tag shows the rivet just resting against the tag like someone added it.
Those tags have always been available for sale if you look hard enough.
I know of two old school buses with about 15 'over the counter' blocks in their old wooden crates... 273, 318, 360, 361, 400's and none were painted.
Nor were the 340 or 440's that are gone now, painted.

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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: mccannix] #1568226
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Never seen a bare block or short block that was bought from a Dealership ever having paint on it. The Hemi Short Block that was stolen from a person on Moparts and made its rounds from person to person then showed up on a thread on moparts was not painted just like the one above. I have had a few 440 bare blocks counter bought and all were not painted. The Hemi over the counter blocks I have owned were all used before I got them but I bought them completely without paint because they were ready to be assembled. One other thing, at one time when I built a motor I could not get Hemi Street Orange from the Dealership or any other place. This was around late 70s. I ended up using Plastikote Orange that is close in color back then. I have no idea why no one had Street Hemi Orange at the Dealerships.


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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: hemicar1971] #1568227
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I know of a 70 Hemi car with a warrenty short block that was installed back in the day. They put it in right out of the crate with no paint on it!

Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: MarkMcDonald] #1568228
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I have been reading this thread as well as this one: 70 440 Warranty Block

I have this 1970 Hemi block with no VIN stamping. It does have the WT on the front pad. I can find no evidence of a hole in the side of the block for a rivet retaining a metal tag. As you can see from the back of the engine, there appears to be some of the correct Hemi Orange paint remaining. The rest of the orange paint seems to have been painted later and with the incorrect color.

I don't know if these pictures add anything to this thread but they may provide a bit more information regarding OTC and warranty replacement blocks. From looking at the pictures, does anyone have anything that they could share regarding this block?

Thanks.

Stan

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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: HemiStan] #1568229
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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: HemiStan] #1568230
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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: HemiStan] #1568232
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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: HemiStan] #1568233
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I have been reading this thread as well as this one: 70 440 Warranty Block

I have this 1970 Hemi block with no VIN stamping. It does have the WT on the front pad. I can find no evidence of a hole in the side of the block for a rivet retaining a metal tag. As you can see from the back of the engine, there appears to be some of the correct Hemi Orange paint remaining. The rest of the orange paint seems to have been painted later and with the incorrect color.

I don't know if these pictures add anything to this thread but they may provide a bit more information regarding OTC and warranty replacement blocks. From looking at the pictures, does anyone have anything that they could share regarding this block?

Thanks.

Stan




Stan that tag would only be affixed to an engine that was an assembly , I wouldn't expect to find the tag on a bare block that went over the counter .

Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: JohnRR] #1568234
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Stan,

See all those Qs and Ps on the side of the block? Look familiar? Your block, like mine, was most likely one available from the old Muscle Stuff catalog. The blocks were rough bored around .016"-.017"ish to allow for a final fit and honing to .020". Which, as I was informed a few years back, was max allowable for Super Stock and probably other classes back in the day. I know you have seen the one in the corner of my garage.

Jim

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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: 68jim] #1568235
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Those green paint splotches look familiar as well...

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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: 68jim] #1568236
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John, thanks for the info. That sounds right.

Jim, I definitely remember that beautiful piece of cast iron. Yours is the first one I was thinking of when I was cleaning mine up. Does yours have a "B" stamped on the front pad? Mine does not from what I can tell.

Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: HemiStan] #1568237
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Mind your Ps and Qs. If I can remember correctly a block bore size can be 70th over stock in Super Stock. Can not remember the crank but it is something like 3.85. Wish I had an old NHRA book to study again. Going only by my memory and it is getting older and older, and I will type this like a question. Did Chrysler not put different letters on the side of the blocks to signify what piston went into each bore when assembling a Hemi at the factory. I thought I remember BCDEF piston sizes. So the Ps and Qs would be for another type of Chrysler description of a bore size of a Hemi Block.

1.26.70 This is a very popular time for Hemi Blocks to be cast for 1971 Vehicles. Maybe 75 percent were cast near this time at the end of January.

Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: HemiStan] #1568238
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Does yours have a "B" stamped on the front pad?




Stan,

Aside from the usual WT it also has two "B"s stamped on the pad.

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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: hemicar1971] #1568239
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Mind your Ps and Qs. If I can remember correctly a block bore size can be 70th over stock in Super Stock. Can not remember the crank but it is something like 3.85. Wish I had an old NHRA book to study again. Going only by my memory and it is getting older and older, and I will type this like a question. Did Chrysler not put different letters on the side of the blocks to signify what piston went into each bore when assembling a Hemi at the factory. I thought I remember BCDEF piston sizes. So the Ps and Qs would be for another type of Chrysler description of a bore size of a Hemi Block.





NHRA allows OEM stroke plus .015, or 3.75 + .015 = 3.765.

The extra .015 gives about 1.75 cu in. Every bit helps in SS.

Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: ScottSmith_Harms] #1568240
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As most have seen, this is how most (if not all) replacements looked, I just wonder if there were other ways they were delivered.




I bought a bare MP Hemi block ('74 casting) from an individual in 1989. It was in a cardboard box with the Mopar parts tag on it.


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As most have seen, this is how most (if not all) replacements looked, I just wonder if there were other ways they were delivered.




I bought a bare MP Hemi block ('74 casting) from an individual in 1989. It was in a cardboard box with the Mopar parts tag on it.




I believe 1974 casting date block are the High Nickel content blocks sold by Chrysler through Direct Connection. Around 1978 Mancini Racing sold a bunch of old NOS Hemi Shorts Blocks but they were all gone by the time the Car magazine can to your house. Chrysler started to dump off all the Hemi Stuff. Do you still have the block, if so did you ever weight it.


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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: 6PakBee] #1568242
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I bought a bare MP Hemi block ('74 casting) from an individual in 1989. It was in a cardboard box with the Mopar parts tag on it.




I saved the box mine came in but after 40+ years the cardboard is not in the best of shape.

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Re: Hemi ID Question [Re: hemicar1971] #1568243
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As most have seen, this is how most (if not all) replacements looked, I just wonder if there were other ways they were delivered.




I bought a bare MP Hemi block ('74 casting) from an individual in 1989. It was in a cardboard box with the Mopar parts tag on it.




I believe 1974 casting date block are the High Nickel content blocks sold by Chrysler through Direct Connection. Around 1978 Mancini Racing sold a bunch of old NOS Hemi Shorts Blocks but they were all gone by the time the Car magazine can to your house. Chrysler started to dump off all the Hemi Stuff. Do you still have the block, if so did you ever weight it.




I'd have to look in an old MP catalog but MP offered two blocks, the standard and what they called (IIRC) the 'fuel' block. That's what mine is based on the part number. I do still have the block and have never weighed it. I've just never taken the time to try to find out what is different between this block and a standard production block. Sitting next to a '66 casting there are obvious cosmetic differences in the rail area and the wedge motor mount ears but I've never gone any further.


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