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[frash da bucket]

Hi Gtr freak,

 

I went to John Gong's,place with another forum member back in 2011,one weekend to pick up a few nick nacks off him.

He showed us the NK block on a engine stand.

Never ever seen one before.

They do exist and there out there.

 

Regards John.

[frash da bucket]

Hi Albert,

Was a genuine block,with a cast number too match.

Just jealous because,you never seen one in the flesh or a photo of one either.

[frash da bucket]

Need to have owners permission to put it up.

[frash da bucket]

Just jealous you haven't got a photo.

[lakeside]

Your full of it,put the photos up or keep your mouth shut.
They do not exist.

Your being a little rude I think. If I had one I would refuse to show you a picture.

[S pack]

Your being a little rude I think. If I had one I would refuse to show you a picture.

Reminds me of another forum member who has multiple user names. 

[crabba67]

Ken cast date F231 on a NG block..........POST #10 cheers

[xu1_lc]

Genuine 9 71 CK xu1

Fitted with Nasco replacement block NK16 yes they do exist 19G1 cast date

Paperwork back to 1980 will have more

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[skap]

Swallowing my humble pie.

 

Guess that solves that one!! 

[LCK186]

Hi just noticed on the suttons paperwork the insurance value for the torana mind you its dated 1980 to 1980 for the sum of   200,000  surely this has to be an error, or was it lol

[Toranamat69]

3rd party property only. For the other car. Bomb insurance basically.

[LCK186]

Hi  Toranamat69   all good i didnt see the third party down the bottom of the page,

[yel327]

Any chance of a better pattern/cast date image? Reason I ask is the date format should lead with the letter in 1971 shouldn’t it?

[yel327]

I just read back further in the thread and it looks like 6cyl changed in the middle of 1971 with the pattern/cast date. V8 was much later than that and what I'm used to.

[Kevrev]

There's an ND block on Facebook at the moment that is supposed to have a 13H 1 casting date

 

https://www.facebook...hare_attachment

[yel327]

It is probably obvious - 173 and 202 were new for HQ with significant changes to the patterns so the pattern/cast date format was changed with volume HQ engine production either late June or early July 1971. 253 and 308 didn't change much so they seem to have stayed with the letter (month) leading well into 1973.

[xu1_lc]

kevrev that's my ND block on facebook 13h1 cast date

[yel327]

It would be interesting to find one of the really early 173 or 202 from HQ's built during restricted production to see if they had the DDMMY date form on them or if they had the older format. Clearly the format change is sometime around 1/7/71 give or take a few days but there were some HQ completed during April and May 1971 with heaps more during June. I'm talking about numbers I can see like QL1044, QD1001, QD1034 etc. GMH may just have made a few 173 and 202 patterns for early HQ (lots were V8 too), and made (or modified) more as they stopped building 161 and 186.

[bat 53]

i have 0ne 

QD6728  b181

found it a couple years back standard bore

[yel327]

Awesome!