There's been a lot of stuff written about our cars and one of the "myths" been that Buick had 1550 engines (or blocks) left on the shelves and they had to use them for something right ... and they ended up in our cars ... well that is not true ...
The blocks were done for our cars and in fact either late 1988 or early 1989 at the saginaw foundery ... line 1 or so apparently hence the SG1 in casted in the block ...
The Buick engine plant in Flint did not stock pile anything and got these fresh blocks and built our engines, they still had 1 line open to be able to build these engines the other two lines had already been converted to build the new (at that time) 3800 engines.
You can check your block your self, the date code is casted in two places and it would be interesting if you posted your finds in this thread ... see attached PDF (photos of my engine when I had it out and rebuilt it) where to look and how to decode it ... if you need help decoding just post your "code" in this thread and we can help out ...
So another myth "busted" (part of this info from Bill Owen)
The blocks were done for our cars and in fact either late 1988 or early 1989 at the saginaw foundery ... line 1 or so apparently hence the SG1 in casted in the block ...
The Buick engine plant in Flint did not stock pile anything and got these fresh blocks and built our engines, they still had 1 line open to be able to build these engines the other two lines had already been converted to build the new (at that time) 3800 engines.
You can check your block your self, the date code is casted in two places and it would be interesting if you posted your finds in this thread ... see attached PDF (photos of my engine when I had it out and rebuilt it) where to look and how to decode it ... if you need help decoding just post your "code" in this thread and we can help out ...
So another myth "busted" (part of this info from Bill Owen)
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