sbc guys!

Just picked up a 63 nova guy says it has a corvette motor in it I need some help to id this motor properly! Castin number on the back is 3782870 heads are 462624 with a tag of 0076 (don't know if that has any significance) and on the front passenger side number by the water pump is F06I5HC any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks

 

arent all 1960's small blocks corvette engines when the car is for sale

 

1965 full size 327 275 hp w/powerglide

 

only the ones with finned valve covers.

 

I think they are all 350 horse 327's. At least thats the bill of goods i've been sold.

 

Ha Ha!

Ain't that the truth!

 

Thanks just what I wanted to hear!

 

Lol good thing I only paid 700 for it!

 

The block is a '62-'65 two bolt main 327 that was used in cars and trucks with a horsepower range of 250-375

Heads are '76-'87 350 heads. The website I'm looking at said these are "crack prone"

HC suffix is '65 275 horse 327 with powerglide used in full-size Chevrolet.

 

Yep, it didn't matter if they came out of a two ton truck they automatically change into Corvette engines when they get swapped into anything that didn't come with a sbc V8 from the factory.

from Henry29 said above it looks like you have a pretty nice little 327 that is a good base for a butt kicking engine in that car.

 

from what little research I've done, it is apparent that Chevrolet used the same block and often head casting in many applications, Corvettes among them. If I recall, Corvettes and truck engine often used similar components, though I could be wrong there. It's pretty easy to look up a block casting number and surmise that it is from a Corvette, when in reality it could have easily come from a truck or other passenger car. I have a set of ramshorns....one is without doubt from a Corvette (according to the details listed in the book I read anyway), while the other could have been, but might not be, and in truth probably isnt.
When you consider the amount of parts interchange Chevy did, and the number of Corvettes produced compared to the number of trucks and other vehicles that used the same parts, the likelihood that a part came off a Vette is pretty small.

 

I want to know were all the wrecked corvettes are that are missing engines. That would be an awesome bone yard to pick.

Godspeed
MrC.

 

Here's a few,

 

I had Vette valve covers on a '62 Impala back in the 80's. Never once mis-led it's heritage. At first sight, the uninitiated (younger crowd usually) would give it the "Whoa!" reaction. I'd just smile.... 283/2bbl/4speed, those valve cover were good for at least 100 visual horse....

 

Wow......about that corvette junk yard..........i think he was only kidding

 

Something else to consider the entry level Vette motor was often the high output full sized engine from the same year. Valve covers aside...

Good example would be the 300 horse 350 in 1969.....

 

Hell yea.....that's so true!

 

Ironically, i bought a 56 gmc once, with a frozen 283 2 barrel. i yanked it, and dumped the engine out back for a couple years. One day, for a kick, i checked the suffix code, and it came up as a 245 horse, dual four 61 or 62(don't remember) 283 block. sold it for a hundred bucks.

 

Back when they had the rotogravure section in the middle of Hot Rod Magazine and SBC's were getting popular to put in rods every rod that had a Chevy V8 had a "Corvette engine" Some years there were less than a thousand Corvettes built but there were three thousand hot rods with that year of Corvette engines running around. And a pair of new Corvette valve covers was under 30.00 at the local Chev garage's parts counter.

 

Its a nice little motor and a lot of pep when you step on it. It lays rubber pretty good.

 

1953, 1955 and 1983 were the only year models that Corvette PRODUCTION was "less than a thousand". About 72 "Pilot cars" (for the up-coming '84 MODEL) were built from August '82 'til late spring of '83 (NONE were ever released to the public), when the actual 1984s were released to the public. DD

 

My 305cu. is really a 383cu. stroker.

 

Huh, I heard a guy telling a friend at a car show once that he had a 305 bored out to a 500 horse 383.

 

Very true, I just ask them why it has a 305cu harmonic balancer on it, if it's a 383cu.

 

Has been installed in my '51 chevy:



^^ real corvette engine. I know because I have the corvette that matches it. I'm gonna tell people it came out of a Nova.

 

I found the original engine from my 62 Vette in a 49 Chev PU.

The 49 owner told me for years it was a 327 Vette engine but it did have solid lifters.
yea.. yea.. yea..... I've heard it all before.
After he wrecked it, I was dumbfounded when I checked the numbers.

 

I have two 350's and two 327's I've picked up over the years ......all Corvette engines LOL

 

EVERY TIME i buy A sbc it came from a vette, every time i sell one they come with the book of #s lol. i really did build up a vette sbc for my old 55. i know it was cause i pulled it out of the vette!!!!!!!!!!

 

My 62 wagon has a late model 350, Corvette valve covers and a dual snorkel air cleaner. Isn't that a Corvette engine? LOL.