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Old 12-12-2018, 09:34 AM   #1
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Here is an odd one, engine number NC5300CAL. It doesn't look like it was re-stamped or ground down and then re-stamped. The number pad is the same coarseness as the rest of the block. The block also has the number 57 cast on it on the right side under the valve cover.


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Old 12-12-2018, 10:58 AM   #2
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Model A/AA type of blocks were made for several years after the production period.

This may have been one of them for use by a engine rebuilder who bought a bare block with no numbers on the engine number pad thus after the rebuilding of a short block or whatever...then stamped his ID number on the block.

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Old 12-12-2018, 11:19 AM   #3
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States reassign VINs for various reasons, but it is usually stamped into the body or frame somewhere.
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Old 12-12-2018, 11:51 AM   #4
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The car did come from California perhaps that is what the CAL is for.


I just read and interesting article about two hundred short blocks, forty-five completely assembled motors with bell housings intact, and many other Russian-made Model A parts imported in 1965 to Long Beach California. Ford Obsolete Parts in Long Beach California imported via Czechoslovakia, a seventy-ton consignment of surplus Russian B engines and parts, originally built in the Gorky plant in Russia.


I am curious to find out if this could be one of the 200 short blocks. The head is Model A. What are the outward differences between an "A" block and A "B" block?
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Old 12-12-2018, 01:11 PM   #5
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The biggest obvious difference between and A and B block is that he B block has a fuel pump mount on the right side below the valve cover towards the front of the engine. The A block does not.
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:09 PM   #6
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Model A engines were used for a host of other uses besides vehicles. Boats, combines, compressors, water pumps, tugs, railway cars, and many others.

Any of these could be used in the A with little or no changes. The number on your block can be anything except an engine from Ford for the A or AA.
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:13 PM   #7
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If it is one of the Ford Obsolete engines it should say GAZ on the block with a part number.
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Old 12-12-2018, 09:02 PM   #8
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Could be a diamond block, can from factory not stamped, block has cast number under valve cover as diamond has cast production date in this area, does block have small diamond behind side timing cover.
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Old 02-09-2019, 10:31 AM   #9
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An update to this post. The engine is a diamond block. Reading the article on distingushing marks on diamond blocks this block definately has them. It also explains why family of PO, who owned the car for sixty years, thought it was original engine. Thanks again for the help on this.
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Old 02-09-2019, 11:17 AM   #10
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what are the numbers on your title- meaning do they match this chged block or are the numbers from the original engine?
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