440 hp block , from a superbird ??

[tan top]

  http://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars/brandon/1970-plymouth-superbird-motor/1007752328?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

[62 Max]

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[68pplcharger]

 

[DoubleDlover]

filed and restamped.... top pad for sure...

[62 Max]

filed and restamped.... top pad for sure...

At least everything is in the right place.   

[pettybird]

the G440 isn't good, unless Gary and Pam need a motor for one of their cars 

[Ghoste]

I thought they only liked 572 Crate Hemi's?

[tan top]

filed and restamped.... top pad for sure...

stamped vin on the oil pan rail looks iffy to me ! i'm no expert though 

[RealWing]

filed and restamped.... top pad for sure...

stamped vin on the oil pan rail looks iffy to me ! i'm no expert though 

Looks real iffy to me. I believe these pads were cut with a large diameter cutter wheel that leaves a pattern of curved cutting marks on the pad. This pad looks to have been ground down based on an assortment of random grinding marks. Plus the 1 and 4 look to have been double stamped.

[62 Max]

filed and restamped.... top pad for sure...

stamped vin on the oil pan rail looks iffy to me ! I'm no expert though 

Looks real iffy to me. I believe these pads were cut with a large diameter cutter wheel that leaves a pattern of curved cutting marks on the pad. This pad looks to have been ground down based on an assortment of random grinding marks. Plus the 1 and 4 look to have been double stamped.

The pad was originally done with a Bridgeport,the circular cutting marks would have been consistent to the top of the pad.

[tan top]

filed and restamped.... top pad for sure...

stamped vin on the oil pan rail looks iffy to me ! I'm no expert though  

Looks real iffy to me. I believe these pads were cut with a large diameter cutter wheel that leaves a pattern of curved cutting marks on the pad. This pad looks to have been ground down based on an assortment of random grinding marks. Plus the 1 and 4 look to have been double stamped.

The pad was originally done with a Bridgeport,the circular cutting marks would have been consistent to the top of the pad.

the 6 looks like , there was a 8 stamped before / underneath it     

[472 R/T SE]

I've seen the double stamp quite a bit.

I don't know about the top pad but the last #'s of the VIN on oil pan rail look legit to me.  The 1 looks to be different but only because it looks as though the second one, the stamp wasn't fully seated. 

imo

[sassysixpack]

I own the block, and I will testify anywhere that it has not been restamped. Seeing as how it was taken out from under a bench from where it had sat since the mid seventies, I doubt anyone had the skill or technologies available to recreate that. Not sure why i would restamp a block for a car I can't seem to find......... a 4bbl car at that.....

experts.........

[tan top]

I own the block, and I will testify anywhere that it has not been restamped. Seeing as how it was taken out from under a bench from where it had sat since the mid seventies, I doubt anyone had the skill or technologies available to recreate that. Not sure why i would restamp a block for a car I can't seem to find......... a 4bbl car at that.....

experts.........

hello & welcome    ,

 no one has said  YOU  have restamped it  ,
think " we "   (( although I think you are prolly / might be ,  refering  to my  post   though !))  are just pointing out what the photo of the pads look like ,  & we all know how the factory went about things & mistakes & errors they made .  
even how one person interprets a picture differently  to the next guy  

the Aero Guys  on here ,  know their stuff , when it comes to wing cars ,  have records / info of who owned what & when & where !  hence why I posted your  motor advert on here  ,  if you can remember  the location from where the block was found , it might jog someones memory , into remembering  such & such etc  

 

[62 Max]

The only thing I see that I wonder about is the top pad,I've never seen a block that didn't have the holes for the valley pan end rails not countersunk.But then,I haven't seen them all.

[sassysixpack]

Thanks for you comments guys, I have been playing with mopars for 25 years and I have never noticed the countersunk holes before, I will check my other blocks. This block was acquired in eastern Manitoba, canada. It came with a 70 gtx I restored. I just got lucky when I checked the nascar registry and stumbled accross the vin. RS23U0A158614 is currently registered in British Columbia, Canada, hence my adds in those 2 areas. I can't trace the owner any further due to privacy laws. I am a purist and just want to see the block go back to the right car. I will not hold the owner ransom, I have had many offers to buy the block from everybody wanting to make their '70 383 car a six pack clone. I don't know anything about the car other than it was a 4 bbl and most likely a 4 speed, as the crank that was beside the block had a bushing in the back. I can take more pictures if anybody needs, but I don't think they will be any clearer. Every other 70 block I have is painted and hard to tell the font.

Thanks

[DoubleDlover]

ok. THis I have to see. This might be a one of a kind special order bird.. All birds that I know of started out as RM cars. an RS car would be a goldmine.. Holy smokes.

[sassysixpack]

Sorry, You are correct, I meant RM23......