Is this motor worth $200?

The good:
- Late 60's Corvette 327.

The ok:
- Finned Corvette valve cover WITH breather cut into sides (no too thrilled about).
- Wieand Intake
- Edelbrock carb

The bad:
- Updated to HEI
- No generator or Altenator

The real bad:
- #2 cylinder on driverside filled with coolant.
- #3 cylinder on p***enger side spark plug rusty.
- Not sure if it has ever been rebuilt. Unknown miles.

The really, really bad:
- Can only turn motor 1/4 by hand @ crank.

 

What is the casyting number on the block? what are the casting numbers on the heads?

 

yes, depending on how much your willing to spend to rebuild it

 

naw.give it to me

 

Valve covers are worth a 100.00 Do the math and check the numbers on block

 

I would pay 200 for that are you kidding

 

Doubt it is out of a Corvette. Every 327 I have ever seen advertised is a "Corvette engine". Until you check the stamp code on the front of the block and it is an Impala motor.

 

sounds like it is worth 200. + and I would be all over it. can't see any way you can lose, you can sell parts for 2-3 times that if it comes to that.

 

how many fins on the valve covers?

 

oh, and yes-it's worth 200

 

buy it

 

Yes.

 

Run the casting numbers before you get all excited.

 

The numbers stamped on the pad in front of the p***enger side side will tell you where that engine came from and in what.
All SBCs are Corvette motors until the number gets decoded.

 

+1 and then run the suffix number on the front pad. As Fast67VelleN20 alluded back in the 60's almost every 327 or other small block that wasn't an obvious two barrel engine was refereed to as a Corvette engine and many had the finned Corvette valve covers. The valve covers were cheap new at the dealers parts counter in the mid 60's. The local Chev dealer's parts guy kept at least two pair on the shelf at all times. In a 10 year period of time they probably sold 10 new Corvettes and 300 pairs of valve covers.

Print out the casting number lists and the suffix lists and then check both head and block casting numbers and the suffix number. With the goodies on top of the engine it is probably worth the asking price but you still want to know what you are buying before you buy.

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All I found on the block was 3970010. Couldn't read the one on the front pad - poor stamping, machined down, or buried in paint.

Even with the breathers cut into them?

Yeah or I wouldn't have asked...

6 I believe. Why?

I was mostly just looking for a 327. What would be the difference anyway?

And thanks for all the replies.

 

010 block is a 327/350 block... high nickle and a decent SBC block. 6 fin covers are generic V/C's, I belive the desired ones were 9 (?).

 

I will have try to read the rest of the numbers.

They maybe seven fins? Two above and below the Corvette text and three though the middle...

 

The casting on the back just tells what size and vintage engine it is...010 should cover 1968-1979. The number on the front like mentioned will tell you exactky what it's out of.

 

there were zillions of engines built with that casting number , most were just plain old ordinary 350's..i wouldn't get too excited about it. a very few were special , but if you can't read the numbers on the front pad i would ***ume it's nothing special

make any offer to the owner that you want to pull the heads to see what's up , if you don't buy it have a cheap pair of head gaskets along to put i back together

 

SBCs are just too easy to find for me to spend that much on what appears to be a paper weight unless the hot rod parts on top light your fire. I love 327s too but for a street driven hot rod, I'm not sure that they are worth any premium or extensive search. JMO To me it's a 100 buck item only because of the parts on top but then you have to want to run those parts or it's not a deal at all. If you are looking for a SBC get one of the small pocket Chevy numbers books to take with you so you know what you are looking at.

 

The 9 fin valve covers had staggered mounting holes, and came out in 1957 on the higher horsepower 283 motors. I have ONE if anyone needs it. $$$

 

why is it that everyone who's selling a small block has a "corvette motor" but i never see any corvettes in the bone yard.somethin smells fishy!

 

I've got three of those 010 blocks in the garage. None of them have ever been anywhere close to a Corvette.
As the others said, a good but pretty generic 4 inch bore big journal block.

I agree with whoever said to ask him to let you pull the heads to check it out. with coolant in the cylinders it may have cracked heads or a cracked block.

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If you pull the timing cover off and it has 010 020 cast into it it's a high nickel block

dose it have 4 bolt mains? some 010 blocks are 2 bolt mains most likey just another 350 block

 

haha yeah. i've noticed that for a while too. everyone has a vette motor. it's funny to listen to people " yeah it's a corvette motor" "NO WAY-wow"
...it's a small block dude.

 

Remember.................there are more Corvette motors than there are Corvettes ..................one of the strangest occurances in all of autodom.

Frank

 

I have one that belonged to Harley Earl and some guy named Duntov before that.I'll even throw in a bridge :0

 

My brother just picked up a '61 BelAir with a '65 Corvette 283! Hmmmmmmmm,,,,,, best I can figure, last year they put those in Vette's was 1961. Maybe my reference books are wrong?

 

My 62 Corvette came with a 327 250HP engine...Whoopee! You could easily get the same engine in a Brookwood wagon. I yanked it out and installed a built 350. Yeah I know I shouldn't have but things were different then. The Corvette A holes didn't know anything about numbers yet or really care.

My 63 Corvette came with a 327 340 HP engine which was only available in a Corvette. The high HP Corvette engines are what started the Corvette engine mythology but in reality they were not as common as the 250/300 HP models.

There are an *** load of Corvette engines out there that were separated from it's original home in a chop shop back in the day. Once the insurance company settled most were put back on the road with engines from wrecked Brookwood wagons and never ended up in a junk yard. That's part of the reason Corvette guy is so numbers conscious.That and idiots like me.