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Re: Official Difference btween the 396 and 402 BB Because you asked.
It is out of the ordinary and pretty confusing. Been there,done that. I had a '71 402 Cheyenne and had people telling me I had a 396 Custom Sport Truck and somebody changed the badges,once they saw my SPID. To me it's a mystery why they would print SPIDs to say 396 when the 402 was in it's second (and even the first) year. It's not a drinking on the job thing or some other screw up. It's obviously intentional. Each SPID is made individually. I always figured they kept using SS396 after '69 because it had become a model name,just like GTO,and it was really just a minor bump to 402. Not worth changing an icon. In a way,it's still a 396. Just like when I've rebuilt/bored a motor,I still call by it's original displacement. Sometimes I might mention the over bore,if we are talking technically about it.
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