Also the leading MOPAR flat 6 guru Geroge Asche lives in Venus Pa in the Pittsburg area. What part of PA are you from? There are several members of the P15 D 24 forum in Pa. Nice looking coupe some trim rings and spyders or baby moons will fix it up for starters. Post some pics of the engine when you get a chance. The head number is just a casting number, and may or may not be original to the engine. Whe ordering parts you will need to refer to distributor number, genny number. The United States has a VIN code of 1 or 4, while countries such as Japan (J) are designated with letters. The first character The first character indicates the country where the vehicle was manufactured. Refer to the 'Plant Information' section at the bottom of the results. After searching a VIN, you'll see the build plant and country for the vehicle in question. Among the information NHTSA's VIN decoder provides is information about the vehicle’s plant of manufacture. Which will show original numbers for frame and body, and tell you where and when the car was built and what dealer it was originally sent to. Now that you found your VIN Dodge number, you can start to decode your car, truck or automobile. Using NHTSA's VIN Decoder to Identify a Vehicle’s Plant of Manufacture. If you want to know all the whys and wherefores of your Dodge, send the serial number, and 50 bucks or so to the chrysler historical folks at the Chrysler Museum, and they will send you back a facsimile of the build car. Your Dodges original engine was rated at 87 hp and the 53 Plymouth at 100, so your horses ahead. Was much cheaper and much quicker to a swap than to have a rebuild done. The engines are the same mehanically, some of the accessories might be different, but it was very common in the day to swap a worn out engine for a junkyard fresh one, or one that was rebuilt by any number of sources. Looks like your car got an engine swap to a 53 Plymouth motor somewhere along the way, and the owner was concientious and reported the swap to the DMV and they updated the number on the ownership docs. Usually there will be a number stamped in the drivers side frame rail that corresponds to the engine number.īut Chrylser tracked cars by serial number which should be a on a plate on the A pillar between the door hinges (some on the right, some on the left) and some states used these numbers for ownership documents. As noted many states used engines numbers for registration and titling, most had some procedure for dealing with this whe engines were swapped. Enter your vehicle's 17-character Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) in the field above to look up and receive an instant report on its manufacturer, brand, make and model, body style, engine size, assembly plant, and model year. D14 was the Chrysler engineering code for 1940 models there was also a D15 but that was an export model.
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