Hey guys need some help with a block. This kid wants to sell me this block but he has no papers, he claims that the block is a honda warranty block.



kinda hard to believe but then he shows me this on the block.



and the block doesnt have a vin plate either.



I know that can be removed but it doesnt look like someone tried to remove it. Does anyone know what that R DOT stands for??

Thanks for ur help

Marcos

 

its got the holes where a vin plate should be....the motors ive seen with out vinplates dont even have those holes.....but im not positive...call honda and ask them!

 

I am NOT 100% positive about the RDOT id but would agree it's a oem honda replacement block. I have a road racing customer that owns a Honda & Acura dealership and supplies these same blocks for his builds. Toyota has a similar marking on their blocks.

 

the kid should have papers for the reason he got the block...

 

You blocked out the block serial #. What's the first digit? Zero??

I've heard that factory replacement engine blocks or whole engines have first digit zero, but I don't know if it's really true?

ps. Either here or on Honda-Acura.net someone claiming to work at Honda said that. That's where I originally heard about the 1st digit being tied to the production year. But he said if it wasn't installed into a new car at the factory, then the first digit was zero.



Modified by JimBlake at 2:09 PM 1/19/2005

 

yeah the first number does start with 0. never heard of that theory. anyone else??

 

New to me also. The RDOT block I have also starts w/ zero.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by doublej &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">New to me also. The RDOT block I have also starts w/ zero.</TD></TR></TABLE>

does urs have the holes for vin plates??

 

The replacement block would explain why the vin plate is missing.

 

we had a rdot block w/ no numbers on it, the person we got it from said they bought the short block from honda, but the oil pump broke after about 25,000 miles.

 

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does urs have the holes for vin plates??</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yes it does. Unused.

 

so i guess im ok then. ill go ahead and do the deal. thanks for ur input fellas.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Gravy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">so i guess im ok then. ill go ahead and do the deal. thanks for ur input fellas.</TD></TR></TABLE>Are you suspicious of the deal? Just because it's an engine that Honda didn't install into a car on the assembly line, that doesn't prove it's not stolen. Wouldn't hurt to run the serial # past the cops...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JimBlake &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Are you suspicious of the deal? Just because it's an engine that Honda didn't install into a car on the assembly line, that doesn't prove it's not stolen. Wouldn't hurt to run the serial # past the cops...
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Yeah but what if it is stolen. then im in a hassle and so is everybody involved. ill just give it back now that i think about it.

 

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Yeah but what if it is stolen. then im in a hassle and so is everybody involved. ill just give it back now that i think about it. </TD></TR></TABLE>

bro give me the serial number ill call the cops and tell them im gonna buy an engine and i just wana run the serial number to make sure its not stollen. if it is just give the engine back.

 

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bro give me the serial number ill call the cops and tell them im gonna buy an engine and i just wana run the serial number to make sure its not stollen. if it is just give the engine back.</TD></TR></TABLE>

im has been sent......

 

[QUOTE=doublej]I am NOT 100% positive about the RDOT[QUOTE]

RDOT is what they put on replacment parts, because they don't have VIN's

R=Replaced DOT= ceritfied by the Department of tranportation

 

thats not a vin plate location, in the picture, look on the back of the motor on the bottom left under the alternator, the vin plate should be there since this is a b16a2 motor which is obd2

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">bro give me the serial number ill call the cops and tell them im gonna buy an engine and i just wana run the serial number to make sure its not stollen. if it is just give the engine back.</TD></TR></TABLE>

it might not that easy (depending on where you are). out here, you can't run engine numbers over the phone, they require you to bring the block in to the CHP. if it comes up stolen, they keep it and you are SOL.

 

some motors do not have the vin tag on the back. Not too confident, but i believe somewhere around 94 or 95 they started putting them on the back

 

my 2001 LS has it on a green metal tag on the bottom right hand side of the block.