The numbers on the engine do not match the VIN number. Neither will the Chassis number that is welded on the left hand side of the chassis in the engine compartment. It's more like a "serial number" or "Lot Number" if you want to call it. Just the manufactures way of keeping track of what engines went into what cars so if a problem arose with a certain lot of engines....they knew what cars they were in. Since Delorean did not make the engine and Volvo did, it's Volvo's numbering scheme. All car manufactures have engine numbers stamped/welded onto the blocks of the engine. Steve --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "Marc A. Levy" <malevy@xxxx> wrote: > A question was asked earlier about the numbers on the engine block > matching the VIN of the car. While I do not expect the numbers to > match, I was wondering if there is any documentation on what those > numbers represent... And if any documentation exists that talks about > what motors went where... Kind of like the list of what cars went to > specific people in the DMC company, is there is similar list for motors > that someone may have?