My flex plate fiasco

[garyd1961]

Originally Posted by El Dorado Jim

I just bought a 350 gm crate engine,they are all made in mexico....

Most GM cars are made in or have major parts made in other countries. The Camaro is mostly From Australia and it use to be the GTO before they dropped Pontiac. They just changed the GTO body and Camaro body. If you look at the sticker on a new car it will tell you what percentage of the car came from what country.
There are cars that are rebranded such as the Chevy Prism which is a Toyota Corolla. I've seen a Suzuki that was really a Buick but just because it was made in a different country doesn't mean it's not really GM.

[garyd1961]

Originally Posted by James the III

Sold the tooling.. does not mean they won't sell the units..

The bbc crate engines are not built by g.m. but are built for them..
after the sbc tooling being sold I'm willing to bet this is the case also, after g.m. dealer network and warehouses run out of stock..

my 454 ho bought in 2004 was not built by g.m. it was built for g.m.

A company outside g.m. bought the tooling..

G.m. sells new cars with parts not made by g.m. and you buy at the parts dept those parts not made by g.m. but g.m. sells and stocks them..

Why you think crate engines and small block parts be any different..
Just because the label on the box says g.m. doesn't mean g.m. produced it.

If I buy a new motor with GM stamped on the block I'm sure GM authorized the company to build it or someone would be going to jail. I'm pretty sure some of the new GM vehicles had motors made in Mexico when I worked their.

[saxart]

Originally Posted by James the III

I haven't bought a crate with 2 piece seal in years.. all the one piece rear main seal, and none of them had one installed..
And looking at the base 190+260 crates. there isn't a part # listed in the included parts included list.. But that don't mean much ,I guess.

What the hell is a "parts included list"? My engine came with a 1-page receipt, and a 1-page (folded) "booklet" that does a poor job of describing the warranty. That's it...

[James the III]

Originally Posted by saxart

What the hell is a "parts included list"? My engine came with a 1-page receipt, and a 1-page (folded) "booklet" that does a poor job of describing the warranty. That's it...

When you look in a parts book or the parts book in a dealership g.m. computer system..The crate engine part # will have a complete. parts list with part numbers of the parts in it
block#
crank#
rods#
bearing #'s
piston#
bolt #'s
wrist pin#
everything down to the spring locks..