1962 through 1964 full size car with the 327 powerglide was "S". If you want to know the year, you need to get the casting date code off the back of the block, not too far from where the casting number was. The last digit will be the last digit of the year the engine was made. The date code will look something like G 4 3
Thanks guys, looks like a 250 horse power glide block, 1964. Trying to figure out if the intake was from that block.
that should have a cast iron intake with a WCFB carb pattern and the casting date should be similar to the one on the block
look for the date code on the intake, see if it's close to the block. You can also pull valve covers and check the dates of the heads. Letter is month, A=Jan, B=Feb, etc. First number is date of month. Second number is last digit of year (sometimes two digits such as 64)
Make sure you put the valve covers back on the correct way if using the original factory type. If backwards the pushrod side of the rockers can contact the inside of the covers. Hard to see the difference in the covers but there is one. One side is vertical and the other has a slight curve to it. The vertical side has to be on the intake side of the heads. If there are "327" stickers on them, don't assume they are on correctly. You won't need to ask how I know. The ticking sound kicked my butt for a year until I figured out what a previous owner had done with the stickers. Up f ###### side down. It was my third 327 motor yet I had no idea there was a difference. What an idiot I was. I must have adjusted the lifters 20 times in an attempt to stop the ticking noise.
Not an idiot. Idiot would have sold the ticking motor at a discount. You hung tough until you identified the problem and added to your fund of knowledge.
Well my Snowflake intake didn’t leave the factory on that block, digging around some more. The wood truck 283 block has some interesting #
Not sure if you have a question but the 519 casting appears to have been for that gutless 283 motor with the 2 barrel carb and a ground pounding HP rating of 170. But with some modifications they can be made to provide a lot of fun, simply because it is a short stroke SBC but you have to dump those heads. They quit making those after 1962 as far as I know; at least for passenger cars. After that the 283 motors got the "power pack" heads as did the 250HP motors. The 300HP units used the 461 code heads with the 1.94 valves. Above that HP rating I believe they all used the 461's with 2.02 valves. Then sometime later they became 462 castings with either valve size.
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