Vintage Cars: 327 motor, small block chevy, chevy engines

Question
QUESTION: I recently purchased a 57 chevy and was told it had a 327 corvette motor. Can you confirm this? Engine assembly date code V0612YW, Engine block casting code 3914678, Cylinder head casting code 333882(?)."


ANSWER: The sources I could find are confusing, I think you have some of the numbers wrong.

The V0612YW translates as
V=Flint
06 = June
12 = day of month
YW comes up as a 427 truck block, could it be YV, that would be a 327 manual trans 200 hp 4bbl C-10 truck engine.

The block casting numbers say it could be one of three blocks:
all 68-69 age
302,290 hp
327 210 hp
350-295 hp

I could not find the cyl head numbers, do you have them right?

Try doing a google or yahoo search for "small block Chevy ID numbers"  You will get lots of sources, and you can do your own research.

Don

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QUESTION: You have found the same information I have. By the way here is the cylinder head information - 333882.....1974- 80...350/400......76cc chambers.
Now my question - Is this a Corvette combination? or is it a something someone slapped together?

Answer
If you have the same info I have, then it sure sounds like something thrown together.  Chevy engines that aren't in their original car and complete are almost always some combination of non-exotic parts.  They are so interchangeable.  Unless you are putting it in a correct year, date coded expensive car, who cares really?  If it runs good and looks good to you, what it came out of is of little or no concern to most people.

Don