DeTomaso Mailing List: April 99, Message #282

At 12:25 PM 4/6/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Tag appears as such:  
>351C   72-5
>B7 KK621 SG 
>
>
>First field is engine CID.  351 Cu Inches.
>
>"C" is engine plant.  C=Cleveland, E or W= Windsor
>
>Third field is model year. In this case 1972.
>
>Fourth field is the Change level US.
>
>Second line:
>B7 here is the....I don't know....  just reallized I didn't write that
>down.  AAACK!
>

The date code. My book shows it as a number and a letter ie; 2B or '72 and
B for February.

Mind you the book might be wrong???!!!.

>KK621 is the engine code#. Here it is a 351-CJ
>620 & 621= 351-CJ
>625= 351 Special
>These are the only codes listed for any "special" 351's.  The balance are
>generic vanilla 351's, four barrel or two barrel.
>
>Last field, SG, is the change level for Canada.

Again my book shows this to be a California (not Canada) CJ or Cobra Jet
motor.

>Not sure that all of these fields are maintained properly..... as it would
>appear that there are some minor discrepancies......
>
>The most important fields are the date and the engine codes.
>
>I can decode more upon request, but the three codes mentioned should cover
>most of the Pantera motors!!!!  And as Jack maintains, the tag doesn't
>necessarily mean that you have what it sez.... it just means that at some
>point in time, this tag was bolted to a particular engine config!!! Actual
>casting dates and partnumbers reveal more....
>
>Steve


I agree with Jack that this only identifies the tag.....

Norm