The local country junk yard here in town is a real honey hole. With scrap prices up so high, everyone is pulling out pieces of crap and scrapping them. Luckily, the local yard does a pretty decent job of putting all the old stuff in the yard to be picked over before crushing it. I've gotten two '57 Ford 9-inch rear ends out of there, one that isn't all caked with grease and the drums still have the factory star washers on the studs. (These are almost direct bolt-ins for Tri-5 Chevys, among others), and lots of stuff for my '62 Suburban as there's been a steady stream of '60-'66 Chevy trucks (mint doors and inner fenders, gauge clusters, etc).
So after dropping Boy Wonder off at school today, I swing through on my way home. I'm always on the look out for Mopar and Chevy truck A-833 OD transmissions. So to make a short story long, I walked past a full-size Chevy truck with 6.2L Diesel badges on the front fender and noticed BBC valve covers! They're orange smooth covers, not the later style. Someone has taken the spreadbore off it and disconnected the A/C compressor. Cast iron intake, and an HEI is laying on the battery tray with the cap off. Cast iron exhaust manifolds, without any kind of ports or other hook ups, and I didn't notice an abundance of smog equipment. It has every appearance of being someone's swap, or someone put the Diesel badges on it to screw with people. The rest of the truck looks stock, so I doubt it's all cam'd up and someone added the badges just to be funny.
I quickly closed the hood. I should go back and throw a seat or bed mat or something over the engine to make people REALLY want to look at it.
So the question is this: not being BBC savvy, is there an easy way to tell, externally, what size engine this is? How about the year it was made? I could probably take the intake off rather easily and check what ports are on it, but I'm sure they're peanut ports.
Time is really tight this week with very pressing editorial deadlines, but I don't know if I should go back and try to pull it one morning. I didn't check the trans, but I can't see it being anything other than a TH400.
Didn't get a price on the trans, but the engine is $110, with no warranty. Even if it's scrap, I'd only be out my time and a few bucks if I returned it for scrap value. Probably break even selling the pan, valve covers and brackets.
So, any ideas? My biggest concern is that I go out there and find out it's a 366 Tonowanda truck engine or something. Do people even want 396 blocks?
-Brad
So after dropping Boy Wonder off at school today, I swing through on my way home. I'm always on the look out for Mopar and Chevy truck A-833 OD transmissions. So to make a short story long, I walked past a full-size Chevy truck with 6.2L Diesel badges on the front fender and noticed BBC valve covers! They're orange smooth covers, not the later style. Someone has taken the spreadbore off it and disconnected the A/C compressor. Cast iron intake, and an HEI is laying on the battery tray with the cap off. Cast iron exhaust manifolds, without any kind of ports or other hook ups, and I didn't notice an abundance of smog equipment. It has every appearance of being someone's swap, or someone put the Diesel badges on it to screw with people. The rest of the truck looks stock, so I doubt it's all cam'd up and someone added the badges just to be funny.
I quickly closed the hood. I should go back and throw a seat or bed mat or something over the engine to make people REALLY want to look at it.
So the question is this: not being BBC savvy, is there an easy way to tell, externally, what size engine this is? How about the year it was made? I could probably take the intake off rather easily and check what ports are on it, but I'm sure they're peanut ports.
Time is really tight this week with very pressing editorial deadlines, but I don't know if I should go back and try to pull it one morning. I didn't check the trans, but I can't see it being anything other than a TH400.
Didn't get a price on the trans, but the engine is $110, with no warranty. Even if it's scrap, I'd only be out my time and a few bucks if I returned it for scrap value. Probably break even selling the pan, valve covers and brackets.
So, any ideas? My biggest concern is that I go out there and find out it's a 366 Tonowanda truck engine or something. Do people even want 396 blocks?
-Brad
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