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What year is this Cylinder head casting number 3837161?
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Is the head for a 6 or an 8?
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Appears to be 235 6 cylinder Gene.
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Cleon,
Have not found the number yet but the number suggests a 261 or 292 head. What is the casting date? Will continue to look.
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This head in question is not mine. I am trying to find the info for someone else. Where would he look for the casting date. I looked at 2- 235 heads that I have and the only other numbers I see are located between cylinder 2 and 3 on the spark plug side.
And they don't look like dates to me. Right below the casting number 3837161 is GM6 in large font.
Thanks, Cleon
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Chevrolet used some 3837xxx numbers in 1955. The part numbers were rapidly being replace with later numbers after that. I have looked at 1954 and 1957 books (including history in 1957) and find no such casting number....could it be a Canadian head?
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Thank You Gene, I belive you are probably right. He had identified his block earlier as being a 1955.
I will ask him about the Canadian possiblty.
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took it off of a 261 block 1959
I know it's not a 261 head no steam ports
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