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Originally Posted by Rex
I have two of the 0-321270 blocks. One has sleeves and the other does not and doesn't appear to have ever had sleeves. The one without sleves has these characters hand stamped on the left rear corner of the block: RMC MOL and under that the number 10.
I was told on another forum the RMC stood for "Reynolds Massena Casting" (Massena, New York).
I also have an NOS 430 crank and pistons. Crank came from Grumpy Jenkins’ shop.
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Hi Rex, glad to see you over here. On the project that we talked about an 0-dash history mostly, that I started sharing over on CF, this throws a curve ball, but a helpful curve ball. On the Chevrolet 1967-1970 Chevrolet 356 blocks, I have assumed one or more of those 0-Dash units might be the prototype for the Reynolds 390, so no panic. I have seen and read RMC (but even though I try to be on top of it all, sometimes my brain misses occasionally), I think even in this thread I read quickly to see if that was discussed. Those are still done up separate from the Reynolds 390 series, but the 0-321270 might just be that development/prototype run that led to the tooling up for Reynolds 390. Interesting. Thus let me dig some more on that history. I wanted to throw in to help, where I know smart guys on here, all of this hang out. As my personal email indicate, I know you know some stuff.
Therefore this line from my post is inaccurate, so removed this--->>>> Reynolds had nothing to do with these 1967-essentially thru 1970 offered engines or blocks using 356 alloy! Thus interest is to improve the History. I added 390 to two of the other mentions of Reynolds too. With your valued knowledge, I just gladly improved the accuracy overall of my post above. I still want to check into the RMC, go back and look at the castings for such, just to double check. Chevrolet was known to farm out Casting, so we had Winters, Alcoa, Reynolds, Tonawanda, and a few others. I wasn't pursuing who did what for Chevy, but that would be good to know information.