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This guy went to great lengths to save his A-12 block…

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This is crazy. I get the whole numbers matching thing but I think I would have just kept it with the car… The guy did a good job trying to save it but I wouldn’t trust how weak it probably is and the mess in the oil galleys..
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How would it even be possible to read any stamped numbers in that ???
 
Wow - that's kind of the engine version of a rebody.
 
Still will need a ton of cleaning. How would you clean all the oil galleys?
 
How is that block rotted so badly? I have seen piles of engines in the junk yards that have been sitting outside and sitting submerged into mud and water for 50+ years that are not eroded that badly??? I doubt those numbers were legible. I am guessing re-stamped another block. It's amazing how many "so called" numbers matching cars exist today.
 
6PKRTSE said:
How is that block rotted so badly? I have seen piles of engines in the junk yards that have been sitting outside and sitting submerged into mud and water for 50+ years that are not eroded that badly??? I doubt those numbers were legible. I am guessing re-stamped another block. It's amazing how many "so called" numbers matching cars exist today.
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Here is what happened….It was face down so I bet the side rail vin pad numbers were fine like he said…

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Hell, one of my 440's was a running and driving engine, until I pulled it for a rebuild. Once I tore it down, the side core plug areas were corroded so badly. I was shocked that it did not leak coolant. I had to re-machine them up to a Big Block Chevy 1-3/4" size cup plug.
 
I don't think that block increases the value of that,or any, car. I'd be pissed if I bought the car and found out that was the motor in it. Find another block and build it right and keep that one as a prop and tell the story... then get in the car and drive, confidently. Then you will have some real value.
 
I watched fabrats pull a boat out of Lake Havasu I think thats spelled right. It was under water for 30 years. Olds 455 I believe. And it looked way better than that block for being under water for 30 years.

 
BeepBeepRR said:
I watched fabrats pull a boat out of Lake Havasu I think thats spelled right. It was under water for 30 years. Olds 455 I believe. And it looked way better than that block for being under water for 30 years.

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Fresh water along with less oxygen will actually slow the process down..
 
4speed68rt said:
I don't think that block increases the value of that,or any, car. I'd be pissed if I bought the car and found out that was the motor in it. Find another block and build it right and keep that one as a prop and tell the story... then get in the car and drive, confidently. Then you will have some real value.
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I agree that is why I said I would have just kept it with the car instead…. Pictures of this block if it gets assembled and installed devalues the car IMO…
 
The bores look incredibly good, and it seems to me the block was standing in dirt and mud only on the timing chain/water pump end which accumulated the most crust. His car only has "one" numbers matching engine and this is it. I totally agree with the builder of the A-12 Super Bee for putting forth the effort of acquiring and refurbishing this block.
 
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oldkimmer said:
Then it was hurt not blown up.
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Exactly, a lot of people refer to a "blown" engine in different fashions when it's really not especially 50 years ago.. Wiped cam, rod knock, blown head gasket, spun a bearing, bent valve etc...
 
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