Topic: 69 VIN

[Brian Conway]

     Two days without a new post so;  These are pictures of the vin stamp on one of my C8OE 6090 N cylinder heads.  Might be of interest to some of you guys ?  Brian

[Mike_B_SVT]

Hi Brian,

I was just thinking about this the other day ~ comparison of VIN stamps on heads.  Here is mine... not nearly as pretty as yours.  Must have been a rough day on the production line.

This is a 1970 (Dearborn, 6-Oct-69) VIN stamped on the head (CJ heads, but I neglected to record the actual part number...oops!).

[JohnRB]

70 Dearborn October 17 ;-)

Yes, I know. Block stamping

JohnB

[69cobrajetrugae2]

I was not aware that VIN's we're stamped on the front of the head.  Did that occur on 70 models only or did the 69 CJ have the stamping there as well?

[Brian Conway]

     The correct location should have been on the rear of the block just below the cylinder head and on the left side.  On my engine the vin stamp was placed on the rear of the cylinder head just above the block.  At some point the heads were reworked and no particular care was taken to put them back where they were.  So they were swapped and the left head is now the right head and visa versa.  Happens quite a bit and looks like it happened on Mike's car to.  I should add the vin stamping was a federal mandate for the big block and performance drivetrains.  brian

[J_Speegle]

     The correct location should have been on the rear of the block just below the cylinder head and on the left side.  ........

+1 - Drivers side head or block  on 68- up FE's. IMHO more often on the block as they were instructed to do - but NJ  and sometimes later at Dearborn (must have been one worker that didn't get the message   they can be found on the head rather than the block.  There are examples from 68 NJ of them being placed on the intake - another odd ball worker 

San Jose seemed to be the best at getting them on the block - followed by Dearborn but have a fair share from there on the head.   More of the NJ ones I've seen or have pictures of were on the head.

Thanks for sharing with the site

[Mike_B_SVT]

Happens quite a bit and looks like it happened on Mike's car to.

Yes it did!  Took me forever to find the darn thing too cuz I wasn't looking in the wrong place for it, LOL!

[TLea]

San Jose seemed to be the best at getting them on the block - followed by Dearborn but have a fair share from there on the head.   More of the NJ ones I've seen or have pictures of were on the head.

+1
the intake NJ ones were aluminum manifold cars and seem to have been for short time (2-3 weeks) Apparently worker did there because softer metal until told not to