Engine number pad painted?

[Billohio]

My Z had 2 stripes on the front of the drivers head and what looked like a huge cursive ok on the side of the block. Probably a DZ but it was really fancy if it was. I think in the how to hot rod your small block chevy, maybe the rebuild book, it shows engines at the plant with writing on them before paint

[L16pilot]

Excellent info with photo documentation. So, for those of us with CE blocks, (short block, fitted or bare), those would have been no-paint from Flint/Tonowanda to the dealers, correct?

The reason I ask is my 70Z project has a CE block and for the above rationale, I painted over the stamp pad thinking dealers would not have taken the time to mask the stamp pad..let alone care.

[John Brown]

Would a dealership, or the installer have even painted a replacement CE block at all? If they were anything like the mechanics I worked with, they wouldn't have bothered. It would have interfered with their flat rate time. At most, they would have oiled it instead of painting it.

[L16pilot]

My thoughts are it would depend on the dealership.unless there were specific instructions.

Anyone know of special instructions/process issued by Chevrolet for warranty replacement engines that may have addressed whether the block was to be painted?