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1968 Z28 CARB DATES
« on: February 19, 2010, 06:58:08 PM »
I got rid of original carb many years back,   and i'm looking for replacement?   my 68 z28 is an 03c date.  how many weeks should i go back on date?    is early jan to early        thanks

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Re: 1968 Z28 CARB DATES
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2010, 08:45:54 PM »
I got rid of original carb many years back,   and i'm looking for replacement?   my 68 z28 is an 03c date.  how many weeks should i go back on date?    is early jan to early        thanks

"Typical" would be 2-8 weeks prior to the final assembly date.
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Re: 1968 Z28 CARB DATES
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2010, 11:12:37 PM »
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Re: 1968 Z28 CARB DATES
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2010, 06:25:41 AM »
For reference, my 02C '68 Z/28 has a carb date of 822

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Re: 1968 Z28 CARB DATES
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2010, 03:14:10 PM »
The closer the better, between the engine assembly date and the build date.

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Re: 1968 Z28 CARB DATES
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2010, 07:08:03 PM »
That is true but again inventories were not rotated in and out like todays factories do.Time sensitive was not in GMs vocabulary back in the day according to my grandfather who worked at Oshawa General Motors
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Re: 1968 Z28 CARB DATES
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2010, 11:02:13 PM »
The closer the better, between the engine assembly date and the build date.

The carb date was unrelated to the engine assembly date; the carb was installed at the car assembly plant, not at the engine plant.
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Re: 1968 Z28 CARB DATES
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2010, 09:43:28 PM »
I often find the cars with all dates matching very close to each other are a lot of times put together after gathering parts for years. These cars did not come with all the dates as close to each other as many want to believe. Its easy to build a car this way if you were to take years and gather parts all very close in dates. But this was not what was built originally.
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Re: 1968 Z28 CARB DATES
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2010, 03:03:49 PM »
My Oct 68 built Z's carb date is from Jul '68.

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Re: 1968 Z28 CARB DATES
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2010, 08:54:25 PM »
I often find the cars with all dates matching very close to each other are a lot of times put together after gathering parts for years. These cars did not come with all the dates as close to each other as many want to believe. Its easy to build a car this way if you were to take years and gather parts all very close in dates. But this was not what was built originally.
Depends on what components you are talking about. Also, what model and what year. Some things, like engine components assembled by the engine plants, are often very close together.
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