where on the engine is the engine number

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Toby_Unna
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 3:37 pm

where on my engine can i find the engine number?

i'm guessing somewhere cast into the block, but where and how many digits?

it's an m30 but similar to m20 i guess
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Jimbob
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 6:00 pm

Hi Toby,

If I remember corrrectly (it was only a month ago I had to write mine down!) then it's located on the lower part of the block just above from the sump, on the AFM side, mine was 8 digits.
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 7:20 pm

cheers for that!

need to put it on the v5 form
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Post Fri May 13, 2005 7:23 pm

Yeah i had to get mine over a pit to get the engine number, its in the same place on an M50.


Couldnt see it from top down :(
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