[RR67GTO]

Hello everyone I have a real problem I can't understand or get far with and I've spent a lot of hours looking and reading numbers and so on. IN a place I know with many kinds of old classin cars, even some decent trei five chevy cars sits a fwe older Pontiacs. Two of them are big cars, and in fact one is a 63 drop top with a 389 only good for parts. But, two other cars side by side. Were at once fully loaded with AM/FM. AC (one car) and both console shift. So, I look under the hods and see both have engiens that look decent. oil is dirty and normal grime but then I notice both have carbs I don't reconise. And, both still have the tags attached to the left front top screw or the four barrel carbs. I look at the carb tags and both are the same. The numbers are 3651s. Both have heads castings 9773345, and the intake on both are 9770274.

However, I can not for the life of me feel any transfer lug. The engines are in cars where hoods don't come up real well and I'm big. But, I get my hand around the back and can not feel the lug. Not, that I have felt many. The carbs are 421 applacation only carbs in Mc Carthy's book, and the heads can be the 389 or the 421s. BUt why, would both cars have the 421 carbs, looking like never been off the car, and yet transfer lug is not where it should be? Cars are 64 cars. If, in fact these are 421s, I want to buy the engines and try and get them to a person who neds them for a restoration making a few bucks of course. As far as block numbers, I looked and removed the paint with paint stripper, and no numbers at all. Not, even the last digites of the VIN code like most. I can't get far enough in back to read a number, and tried flash light only to see a mountian of hard sludge.

SO, I can just pull the carbs if they are something people need? Or, buy the complete engines hoping to have a pair of 421s. Or, forget them all together, and go pull the 1967 engine with 061 heads out of the old Wagon it sits in.

For those who know about strange Pontiac stuff, please let me know why the carbs are correct for 421 only, and why I can't feel a transfer lug? And don't say someone swapped the carbs, because ya know, they just look to at home thereand look like never been rebuilt to be swapped. Please email me as I'm only getting a fwe of my notices. thanks [email protected]


Mike