What you are describing doesn't seem to work.
Bob, that looks like an EIN.
I was told the K means 1964
no, the "K" should mean it's from the Kansas City, MO plant. if you were reading us the two letter Engine Code stamping ( http://www.teambuick.com/forums/view...t_engine_63-75 ) THEN the K would indicate year.
the EIN decodes the same way a VIN does, it's just a fraction of the VIN that doesn't include make/model information.
5 K 113312
5 = either 1965 or 1975
K = Kansas City, MO
113312 = sequential production number, this would match the last 6 digits of the VIN from the car that the engine came from
the problem here is that the oddfire 225 was available in 1965 and the oddfire 231 was available in 1975. so we haven't really learned much.
i think HEI distributors came in around 1974, so if you have a points distributor in it there's a good chance it's the 60s era engine.
the definitive way to figure this out ( without disassembling the engine, of course ) would be to find the two digit Engine Code:
http://www.teambuick.com/forums/view...t_engine_where
"The production code number can be found on the crankcase between the front and middle branches of the right exhaust manifold."
there's a chance we could ID this from 225 specific casting numbers as well, we've got some of the block and head numbers for the 198 and 225:
http://www.teambuick.com/forums/view...rs_small_block
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