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these guys have big ones!! cahones that is

That block doesn't look like it has the tell tale china castings on it to me. I thought all of the china castings had julian date codes on them of the GM block they copied. He doesn't show the casting number though to see if it has the GM number there o nthe left rear or the valley.
 
I emailed for pics of those areas but we've been down this road before there are no blocks cast in Canada
 
Is there anyway to report them or the listing to ebay. I try and flag bad craigslist ads if I see them.
 
There are some foundry's near Fort Erie Ontario.

Bill Mitchell form World Products used one while perfecting the pour technique for his cast iron cylinder heads and then blocks later on.

I doubt that they are being used but who knows?

I asked the ebay vendor for the name and address of the foundry/machining center in Canada and have not received a response.
 
Received a note that it is proprietary knowledge and is not available to be shared-competitors may start undercutting him-LOL.
 
What I find interesting is that unless these images are photoshopped, I don't see ANY casting numbers in the two images that have a decent shot of the rear right of the block.
 
Do the china blocks really suck? Are they serviceable? They cast 10's of thousands of car truck tractor railroad and ship engines in china every year, they run their infrastructure with them, so why cant they make a decent 6.5 replacement?

Several car mfgs have plants in Brazil. So they have the skills there, doubt they are casting 6.5 blocks though.
 
Bison has a china block IIRC. He posted up the metallurgy (had it checked) versus a GM block. Also noted the china block was lighter.. i think.. it's in a thread 'round here somewhere.

I remember seeing a low concentration of nickel with both, but the china job was very low.

High nickel = good iron for a cylinder block. :agreed:
 
I agree, china block can be good stuff.

They are in the same position than japanese and taiwanese products some years ago : nobody trusted them and even laugh at them. Now they have proven their quality.

Problem with the chinese products is that there is not enough feedbacks on them, they are too "new" on the market, and sometimes quality standards are a bit odd.
That being said, they will build the product you want, with the quality standards you want ...
 
Did anyone report them? I did. I finally looked all over the ebay page and there is link to report bad ads. It only gives a few options and IIRC I put inaccurate description or something like that. I wonder if that is when they changed to Brazil instead of Canada ?????

I don't know how the reporting works on ebay or craigslist for that matter but only guess its a statistical thing. If an ad gets a few flags or reports from different random users then odds are its a fake and I bed no real person ever investigates details its just automatically handled. Ad submitter probably gets an email to correct ad and that is how listing was changed to Brazil and if no change maybe item is dropped ?????? I see some craigslists ads once you click on them it says item has been flagged and its gone after a day or so.
 
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