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mopar siamese block ID ?

Posted By: Darkside Racing

mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/03/10 02:14 PM

mopar siamese block ID ?
right side has large mopar emblem
1.5 " high " mopar " letters
a small shield emblem with m and c ? in it

4 bolt mains (with funny litle studs and nuts on ties)

any info on where it came from please?
david@darkside.ca
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Thanks.............
Posted By: Blown69

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/03/10 02:36 PM

Do you have the casting number off the side of the block?
Posted By: Darkside Racing

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/03/10 02:46 PM

246833-M
I asumed it was a mopar performance
but understood they came from different places ??
Posted By: JohnRR

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/03/10 08:23 PM

Do you have the block in your possession ?
Posted By: Darkside Racing

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/04/10 12:34 AM

yup putting it in the wifes dart

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Posted By: mr_340

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/04/10 04:15 PM

SS Hemi block. This was the old ones that didn't have the lifter bores machined. Pre-World block.

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Posted By: mr_340

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/04/10 04:20 PM

Other side.

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Posted By: JohnRR

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/04/10 05:29 PM

Quote:

yup putting it in the wifes dart




Since heads are on I don't think you can check it easily ...

edit ... just looked , there is a service replacement 440 block with crossbolted mains , it's part number P5007672 , the siamese is P5007624 and P5007625
Posted By: nosboy

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/04/10 06:00 PM

my block has a part number stamped into a little boss in the same spot as the oil filter on the RIGHT side of the engine.. You have to look at the front of the engine to see it... Front lower left while looking at the timing chain area.. Thats where my numbers are... mopar siamese wedge...
Posted By: Darkside Racing

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/04/10 07:11 PM

here is some more pictures
the shield shaped emblem has a M and a C in it
- tie bolts on bottom
no numbers around oil filter corner

Thanks for the help

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Posted By: JohnRR

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/04/10 07:14 PM

Quote:

here is some more pictures
the shield shaped emblem has a M and a C in it
- tie bolts on bottom
no numbers around oil filter corner

Thanks for the help




You just answered your question with that picture , looks like there is no freeze plug in it , if it's not there that looks like a siamese bore block to me , there is no gap between those 2 cylinders .
Posted By: Darkside Racing

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/04/10 07:15 PM

It was never used when I picked it up (new)
but could be 10-15 years old ?
picture without heads

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Posted By: Darkside Racing

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/04/10 07:19 PM

yes definatly a siamese block but was wanting to know who made it for mopar I assumed it was world when I got it but apparently it is older than that.?
Posted By: ZIPPY

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/04/10 08:28 PM

Well, it's a Megablock.

Beyond that, there isn't much to ID it because not much was required in the way of serialization. It just wasn't important way back then, I guess. Here's your block, have fun.

Mopar's normal past practice was, take a casting and machine it as many different ways as possible (to get as many different part numbers as possible from one tool).....however once the box is gone there's no telling what part number it was originally sold as, so there's where the "have fun" part comes in. Ex: your casting number could have either been a Wedge or a Hemi depending on how it was machined.

Unfortunately things are never quite as simple as "who made it" because of the multi tiered supply chain. MC is the foundry mark. Far as I'm aware MC did not do machine work or packaging, they just sent raw castings along to whatever the next step of the supply chain was at the time.

The modern blocks have many more identifying marks, and are serialized in such a way that normal human beings can read it and make sense out of it without a secret squirrel decoder ring. And if that isn't enough, the packaged part number is even engraved on the newer blocks, so no need to save boxes for 15 years anymore to remember what part number you have Progress!
Posted By: Darkside Racing

Re: mopar siamese block ID ? - 05/05/10 02:41 AM

thanks ...
I appreciate the info

so in summary the mega block is any moparperformance block after the heavy web (direct connection) hemis we used to get for our old fuelers .... to the new world ones ?

and have got to be a little better than digging around the local auto wrecker .... probably weighs more though ?
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