[FC] help needed with engine ID....

[Paul Steinberg]

The block numbers might just be meaningless, if the engine were rebuilt with parts from another engine.  I have see lots of variations through the years, and have even seen turbo blocks with 140 heads on them.  Today, the block stamping is just another number that might have no meaning at all. 
Paul in CT
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Merv Krull 
  To: corvairs at cybrus.net ; corvanatics at corvair.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:58 AM
  Subject: [FC] help needed with engine ID....


  Hi folks! 

  Recent discussion reminded me of my dilemma with engine ID on my 62 Greenbrier with a 4 speed manual transmission.

  It has a transplanted car engine with the code T0416YN.

  >From Bob Helt's Classic Corvair book, that means it can be a:

  61 98 hp manual transmission with 9:1 compression ratio
  or
  62 or 63 102 hp manual transmission
  or
  64 110 hp manual transmission

  Coincidentally, Bob used the code T0420YN as an example in the same book. My engine would have been built 4 days before his identical example, which he indicates is a 64 110hp manual transmission.

  However, mine has a solid pulley instead of a harmonic balancer, so that might eliminate the possibility of it being a 64 unless a PO stuck one on when the old rubber one crapped out.

  Is there another way to determine what engine I have stuck in there?

  thanx and Merry Toodles!
  Merv Krull
  Salmon Arm, BC
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