The MOSS catalog lists engine # by year of manufacture, maybe this
will help.
...Art
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, jspeiser wrote:
> I am rebuilding my MGB engine which is missing the number plate. I had
> spent a bit of time eyeing its features and the drawings in Moss and VB
> catalogs to finally figure out that it seems to be a 1965-1967 engine. And
> then I took it out of the car last week, disassembled and cleaned it, and -
> you guessed it - found those date disks in the iron casting of both the
> block and the cylinder head that show the exact month-day-year of casting!
> I'm sure all you experienced guys know all about this but it was news to
> me. So I learned that the head dates from September and the block from
> November 1966. Too cool. I still don't know the engine number, but I know
> the date of manufacture of the head and block. Maybe some of you listers
> can tell me how to get the approximate serial number from the date of
> manufacture . . . Many thanks!
> My 2 cents . . .
> John Speiser
> '53 TD with '66 MGB engine and OD tranny
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> > From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU>
> > To: Jason Sawyer <jason.sawyer@ibm.net>
> > Cc: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
> > Subject: Re: I need a new engine (I think)
> > Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 6:41 AM
> >
> > I would look at Clausners (sp?) book Original MGB and start from
> > there by trying to identify what my engine has or doesn't compared to a
> 79
> > engine.
>
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