Old Race 340 Teardown

Yes, good info. But it begs a question about my block. The "X" is cast into the driver's side bank rear (behind the flywheel) - not on the front of the right bank like described everywhere I've read. Also, there's no casting numbers on the block at all. There's only a small "4472" hand stamped near the pan rail on the right front. WTF?

And yours has an oil dipstick hole. I think all X blocks were cast without. And it should have 318 casting numbers if it’s an x block.