Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

[Richard E.]

Help: 1967 BB engine pad numbers TO223JE

If anyone has a 1967 BB Assembly date of TO223JE or TO223?? that I can compare mine to, please post or e-mail me a picture as I have found two other TO223JE engine pads but both were painted...
Please email any photos to me at reagen@nycap.rr.com

thanks alot,
Rich...

[Richard E.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

Thanks for the info Mike

[Richard E.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

thanks for the picture Mike but it looks like the font is a little different on small blocks and big blocks...
Thanks Again,
Rich...

[John H.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

it looks like the font is a little different on small blocks and big blocks...

Richard -

There were LOTS of different font styles, and they could change every day; the individual character dies were purchased from multiple suppliers, and were all binned together - nobody at the engine plants paid any attention to font styles.

The only valid comparison you can make is to other T0223JE pads stamped the same day, as each suffix had its own separate gang-holder made up every day.

[Richard E.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

Thanks John,
That is exactly the assembly date i am looking for (TO223JE).I have found 2 other TO223JE stampings but both were painted but the font was the same as mine from what i could make out.I just want a picture of one original unpainted pad with the same assembly date as mine...TO223JE.........
Thanks Alot,
Rich...
reagen@nycap.rr.com

[Richard E.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

Anyone with TO223JE??? need one good image.

[Richard E.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

Nobody willing to give up an image of their 67 BB assembly date of TO223JE?
I need just one unpainted,not restamped image to compare mine to.I am not
collecting images just want to compare the two different 2's on that assembly day...Imiages found to date have been painted...

thanks,
Rich...

[Robert G.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

Richard, I think you've got a tough job finding another. If there were about 100 67 corvettes produced per day, and about half were big blocks, that means there may be only about 50 T0223 cars that were ever built. If half the original engines are gone now, there would only be about 25 out there and you have accounted for 3. I think that may be the best you'll do. I've been keeping track for years and given you all I have. Good luck, but it's going to be a while. I'll let you know if I find another.

[Michael W.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

If you re-read post #4, John mentions that each engine suffix had it's own stamp. Even if 50 BB engines were built per day, how many were JE?

I'm amazed that three have turned up, assuming that any/all of them are real.

[Richard E.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

Michael,
Actually Robert said there were about 50 67 BB vettes built per day but we don't really know how many BB engines were assembled in Tonawanda on a given day... Rich...

[Michael W.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

True, but the only thing that REALLY counts is how many JEs were built per day. Forgive my ignorance of the stats, but how many JE engines were there for the entire production run?

[Richard E.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

3757 JE's but TO223J anything may work... Rich...

[Robert G.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

3757 JE's but TO223J anything may work... Rich...

I don't have my black book handy, so I don't know how many other Jx's there were, but if there were a production run of 200 days and 3757 JE's, that's less than 20 per day-meaning the odds I tried to guess at before are even worse. Maybe an ad in the Driveline might shake something loose. I look daily, Richard, so maybe some day...

[Rich P.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

Richard,

why not try to see if you can get someone with the serial # within 50-100 either way of yours and check the font on the serial # it is another way to verify the stamp.
I'm suprised Al G does not have a stamp from the same day???

I had a customer go through the same thing you are and he searched for about a year and a half until he found a motor for sale on e-bay with the same build day as his 67 435. It turned out that they both had a 5 with a peculiar slant on the vertial staight line that matched perfectly.

Rich

[Richard E.]

Re: Help: 1967 BB TO223?? engine pad number photo request

Thanks Robert and Rich.Al doesn't have a TO223JE so it MUST have been a slow day at Tonawanda but i'm sure one will turn up some day.I actually found a TO222JE with the same 2's and JE as mine but i wanted to get an exact stamp.Also i found alot of vin stamps close to mine that have the same font as mine. thanks,
Rich...