928 block with no serial #
05-03-2009, 10:10 AM
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Greg, nobody was even suggesting that Mark was doing anything that was not above board.
I saw the GBI raise the numbers on a big truck once, it was neat.
I saw the GBI raise the numbers on a big truck once, it was neat.
Yeah, I'm sure that Anderson doesn't need to grind off numbers...he's got more of those things than he can stack up, already. Anderson's problem: "Let me see...which one goes to the recycler for the aluminum, today?"
As I said, the Germans do whatever they want. If you crash a Cup Car and want a new "tub", they make you cut out the chassis number, send it back to Germany, and they weld it into the "new" tub. That is strickly not done, in this country....a new tub would have a new vin! The Germans simply do not care about these trivial details.
A "school" engine block would indeed have an interesting tale to tell. Did it come out of a car that had an engine problem at the factory? Did it come off the engine assembly line? Was it ever on a line? Was it part of the contact with the manufacturer to supply "school" blocks? Who knows.
Try and raise some numbers...there should be instructions on which acid to use, on the internet. Maybe there are some, maybe not....sure would be fun to find out.
As I said, the Germans do whatever they want. If you crash a Cup Car and want a new "tub", they make you cut out the chassis number, send it back to Germany, and they weld it into the "new" tub. That is strickly not done, in this country....a new tub would have a new vin! The Germans simply do not care about these trivial details.
A "school" engine block would indeed have an interesting tale to tell. Did it come out of a car that had an engine problem at the factory? Did it come off the engine assembly line? Was it ever on a line? Was it part of the contact with the manufacturer to supply "school" blocks? Who knows.
Try and raise some numbers...there should be instructions on which acid to use, on the internet. Maybe there are some, maybe not....sure would be fun to find out.
05-03-2009, 06:09 PM
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I bought a '78 Euro once that suffered an engine fire, then the hole in the hood created by the fire directly over the block numbers let 10 years of rain water while the car sat in the woods. For some darn reason the combination of those two events made the engine numbers unreadable... imagine that. Could never get that car to start... maybe it was me.
05-03-2009, 06:18 PM
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