This is my favorite thread!

 

They probibly found it in the Taco Bell truck. Figured some Illegal was trying to take it home and put it in there car. And decided to throw it away. lol.

But on a seriouse note, if you end up scrapping it at a junk yard, be very carefull. Cause if there is a big industrial area close by they usually have something worked out with the Junk man. When ever they get curtian things in Like say an Aluminum block that is not all the way machined, They will tell the nearist company and you might get in trouble for having possesion of stolen property... It happens all the time here in Va. At the Shipyards and stuff. People will take home brass or stainless piping or zinc plates from the ships in Overhaul, and they end up getting in trouble for it.

Lane

 

Make a table out of it, or ship it to me and I will do it!

 

excellent find! (i wish i could find something cool like that)
it sounds like you need to get up with the guy that makes lamps from cams and cranks, you'll have yourself a cool matching set.

i agree with crazylane, i was thinking the same thing as i was reading this thread, you DEFINATELY need to be very careful if you try to scrap it for mod money.

 

Wish I could get so lucky. I've had a major rash of bad luck recently, I could use something like that.

I'm also going to hop on the table ban wagon. Without all the holes and such, cleaning it would be really easy.

 

cut it in half down the valley and post the "bare blocks story" on the ecotec forums.

Double or nothin'

 

My Taco Bell sucks! The only thing I find behind my Taco Bell is some pissed off skinny cats and a homless guy named Phil! Sweet find! I would hand it upside down from my ceiling on a chain and stick recessed lights in the sleeves. That'd be cool!

 

over a pool table

 

Yeah!

 

Had this article I saved out of a trade magazine, it caught my eye because it was an un-machined LSx block. Looks like this huge machining company has an office in ponitac, so maybe the block you found came through there?? not sure, but just a guess.

 

Unless Im mistaken there ARE number stamps on the front of that block in the first pic. and if you really care just call G.M. near you ask to speak to parts and all will be reviled!!!

 

Hey man,
Why don't you sell it to me, so I can make a polised table out of it!?

 

you lucky bastart mike. I was just asking you what you were goin to do with your scrap stock block remember? I say, TWO tables dude. matching nightstands, or how bout a glass poker table with both blocks under it? or, how bout table for you AND table for ME!!!! ok lets do it. haha. I want those iron heads btw. just keep forgetting to email you bout it.

chris

 

Not sure why but that made me crack up. That would be a pretty sweet garage ornament.

 

Here ya go! got this in a red-neck inventions e-mail today....i want one [IMG][/IMG]

 

****.. who the hell would have a wife that would let you put that thing in the living room???

i can understand if you are single.. but... come on...

the only good idea i can think of for it.. is if you have a pool table.. flip the block upside down, put some lights into the cylinders and use it as a pool table light.. so long as you paint it accordingly.. and make it look decent..

 

Yeah, no wife here! So yeah it would be in my living room. What, she gets to decorate the whole house with flowery bullshit. Maybe for a wreck room or something. The pool table light would be unique but would need some serious support.

 

what an awesome find....im jealous

 

I'm very curious on how that got to where it was, I'd see what I could dig up before I did anything. If it was a prototype or preproduction thing, then GM might want it back to destroy it.

 

I'd rock it, not in the living room but the garage definitely...

Yeah and my best guess is that they found a problem in the block after they pressed in the sleeves, they wouldn't of taken the time ot take out the sleeves to melt it back down. It's probably a hairline crack that would show up in an x-ray process...