If a USDM swap doesn't have the VINs on it, is there another way to indentify where it came from? Friend is motor shopping and wants to avoid stolen motors as he knows what it's like

 

Aren't the VINs stamped into the block? I would imagine if someone ground the VINs off then it's hot. I may be wrong though.

 

aren't the VINs just on the little green plates? one on tranny and one on block?
One he found has neither of them

 

Well on the tranny it's either a plate rivetted on or a sticker that just falls off after a few years. But as for the block it should be listed right under the engine code. And all my engines have been stamped on there.

 

well under the engine code isnt that the block serial number. i know newer b series have a vin plate on the block its near the oil pan. dont know about the older bseries. i would think you can run the serial numbers to check to see if its stolen

carlo

 

Not neccisarly.. when u but a motor or tranny new from hond-acura it comes with no vin at all

 

Doesn't the block serial number have to do with the vin for the car. I remember about 6 years ago I was at sacramento raceway. CHP was there popping hoods and running the numbers on the block below the engine code. They had a list of stolen motors. So I can only assume that it would tell you the answer to that question. Call honda and ask them. They will tell you if thats right or not. Let us know.

 

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But it should have the serial # correct? checking on that....

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Sack Master &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Doesn't the block serial number have to do with the vin for the car. I remember about 6 years ago I was at sacramento raceway. CHP was there popping hoods and running the numbers on the block below the engine code. They had a list of stolen motors. So I can only assume that it would tell you the answer to that question. Call honda and ask them. They will tell you if thats right or not. Let us know.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Cool. Thats what I thought too. I just looked at my GSR. VINs of course match up but serial #s are a different set (as in not taken out of VIN)

So if I got the serial #, I can call the police and ask them to run it for the VIN and see if it's legit?

 

i beleive so... u can ask len from baranco or tom- b18c5-eh2

 

called Honda: they said they don't know anything
called the police just now and lady says there should be a VIN, w/o it no way to tell

 

if its not new from the factory, its probalby stolen.

 

lol either that or it has 1million miles on it lmao

 

i thought you had to call CHP and they'll verify the serial number not the vin at least thats what i've been told...