Thread: help needed identifying a 302 block

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my uncle passed away recently and me and my brothers have been tasked with sorting out all the stuff in his garage. theres lots of it. anyhoo we have already listed the winter crossram manifold that he collected along the way while on a parts mission in the south off england 20 or more years ago, on the same mission he also collected a bare prepped 302cu chevy block which he was told & I have little doubt that this is correct that it was prepped by Lola now my question is how do we tell and if it is indeed a Lola prepped block is it worth anything?
cheers (in advance) for your help
Dave

Originally posted by streetvw
my uncle passed away recently and me and my brothers have been tasked with sorting out all the stuff in his garage. theres lots of it. anyhoo we have already listed the winter crossram manifold that he collected along the way while on a parts mission in the south off england 20 or more years ago, on the same mission he also collected a bare prepped 302cu chevy block which he was told & I have little doubt that this is correct that it was prepped by Lola now my question is how do we tell and if it is indeed a Lola prepped block is it worth anything?
cheers (in advance) for your help
Dave

What are You giving us to go on? ? ? ? ? Am I missing something like pictures? Part numbers? Casting numbers? Is it a 4 bolt main block? What is the bore? Do You have anything else to go with it? We would all like to help, but have to have something to work with . Otherwise we are all just shooting in the dark! Cheers to You too.

I'll get some pics and see if I can see any casting numbers on it this weekend, the info I have is what he told us about it, but I do know it's a 4 bolt main, is unused and has some real high quality honing job!!!! other than that it's as I said

OK guys I had a look at the block yesterday and got some photos. it's a 4" bore with a casting number on the fromt of the block of G47 020 there is also another mark on the otherside of the cam bore of 010 does this help?

also another clue to the Lola link to the block is this

The 010 ---- 020 means high-nickel, high tin mix. This is desireable. You still have not found the casting # and the date code. Look at the drivers side back of block just in front of the bell housing. Oh ,If you live where You drive right hand drive cars it would be on the left side of the car. There may also be more numbers near the head surface at the top, but they could have been machined off by now.

if you want to sell it i am interested in the block crank rods pistons etc......scooter email me if you want........

I thought if it was a genie 302 it would have a DZ some where in the code on the pad left top of the water pump ( facing the engine) unless it was decked...

do these help? looks like I was looking at the wrong end of the block hey I'm a VW guy

Take a pic of the water pump pad top down.....isn't that a 283 in the back ground.....?

1968 3970010 327 A Body
1969-79 3970010 350 car, truck, Vette

This came out of the Chevrolet Small-block V-8 ID Guide.

looks to me likes its just a 350 350's also had an 010 casting number........ 283 in the background though