Need info on this block

I'm fairly confident the L.OC was an early Low Compression abbreviation. There was an A stamping for .020 O.S. cylinder bores. I once had a 76T HP E (cast crank engine) from a police car that had a sideways F mark on the pad. I wish I had pulled a piston and rod to measure before I traded it off. I suspect other alphabetical markings are indicative of other bore over sizes, but were stamped sideways or backwards to prevent them for being mistaken for the letter year stamping. Darksideracing shows B as .010 undersized crank journals but other sites show Maltese cross with an X for rods and mains, RX for rods, and MX for mains .010 undersized. I don’t know if you had planned on tearing it down, but if it has the stock internals in it you may be able to measure and share your findings with us.


Shouldn't there be VIN marks on it somewhere though? I know if you bought a block across the counter it had no VIN associated with it. DC was selling T/A blocks with no VIN over the counter as race blocks until the X block was released.

I've never seen an OTC 440, but I have seen a few OTC Hemi dong beaters and they had numbers like that, with out VIN numbering.

Like I said, haven't seen anything like that in years so I may be wrong.

Edit: I also didn't realize it was basically complete. It looks to have a Milodon Super Stock pan on it.