<VV> Ultra Numbers

[James Davis]

You are confusing universal replacement blocks with replacement short 
blocks.  Universal replacement blocks are just the block halves with 
studs and nothing else.  They have no stampings of numbers or letters of 
any type.  The dealer building using these blocks to rebuild an engine 
was to stamp the same numbers on the replacement as were on the original 
block.  There were also replacement short blocks for 80, 98, 102, 95, 
110 and 140 engines.  The engines had the normal T numbers with a 
sequence of X's and O's indicating its camshaft and crankshaft installed 
in the short block.  Bob Helt's book has a partial listing of these 
short blocks. 
Jim Davis

J R Read_HML wrote:
> Well, only one X it looks like.
> Later, JR
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ian Harding" <harding.ian at gmail.com>
> To: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: "Hal" <hihal at roadrunner.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:19 AM
> Subject: Re: <VV> Ultra Numbers
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>> On 3/30/09, J R Read_HML <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>>> There is no other VIN on an Ultra Van?  Isn't a crate motor stamped with
>>> XXXs?
>>>
>>>       
>> I don't know about completed engines, but here's what a "Universal
>> Replacement" block looks like.  It had all the openings for install on
>> a FC, wagon or car.
>>
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/vq87tVA4nKkjUisrS6YL1A?feat=directlink
>>
>> - Ian 
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