I?m trying to understand the relationship between the cast raised date codes on the driver?s rear side of our engines to the stamped engine code on the passenger?s front pad to the actual date the car was made. How much time would have elapsed?
Engine blocks have a part number cast into them and located at the passenger?s rear side of the engine, this part number tells us the years and cars it was found in. Then there is then the cast date code as described above telling when the engine block was actually made (cast). I believe I know how to read the date codes with letters corresponding to months of the year followed by numbers relating to the day of month that the block was made or cast. My question is when was the stamping done? How much time would have elapsed from the date that the engine was made per the casting codes to when it was finally assembled and then how much time for the engine to get to the assembly plant and installed in a car? Was the stamping done on the day the engine was assembled or when the engine found its way into a car?
I don?t know enough about the stamping process, when and where it was done. My gut feeling says the stamping was done during engine assembly in some plant in Michigan. It then was sent to the car assembly plant. This had to be a logistics nightmare with so many different engines available with so many different stamping.
Thanks, Al
Engine blocks have a part number cast into them and located at the passenger?s rear side of the engine, this part number tells us the years and cars it was found in. Then there is then the cast date code as described above telling when the engine block was actually made (cast). I believe I know how to read the date codes with letters corresponding to months of the year followed by numbers relating to the day of month that the block was made or cast. My question is when was the stamping done? How much time would have elapsed from the date that the engine was made per the casting codes to when it was finally assembled and then how much time for the engine to get to the assembly plant and installed in a car? Was the stamping done on the day the engine was assembled or when the engine found its way into a car?
I don?t know enough about the stamping process, when and where it was done. My gut feeling says the stamping was done during engine assembly in some plant in Michigan. It then was sent to the car assembly plant. This had to be a logistics nightmare with so many different engines available with so many different stamping.
Thanks, Al
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