LS3 Engine number

[Steve5150]

Hey guys can anyone please help me finding the origin of this engine number

K14 163381425

 

[NJD-1992]

By origin, do you mean manufacturing plant?

Pretty certain all Aus bound LS3 engines are sourced from Mexico, likely the GM Silao facility

 

[Skylarking]

Hey guys can anyone please help me finding the origin of this engine number

K14 163381425

If by origin you mean you want to find out which vehicle (type) the engine came from, such info can't be decoded.
Holden may be able to look it up if they could be bothered (were still in business and chasing sales)...

From https://forums.justcommodores.com.au/threads/holden-and-hsv-gen-iv-engine-number-prefixes.250144/

Using your number *LS3*163381425*

LS3 is the RPO code for the engine
16 is the year 2016
338 is the julien date, that is the 338th day of the year when the engine was manufactured (day 338 is december 3rd)
1425 is the assembly plant sequence number

What the K14 signifies IDK but if there is a DGD or DCF code somewhere on the engine it could mean the following

DGD = 6.2L (option LS3) V8 - VFII Commodore (auto trans)
DGF = 6.2L (option LS3) V8 - VFII Commodore (manual trans)

 

[Anthony121]

Hey guys can anyone please help me finding the origin of this engine number

K14 163381425

Looks like a 2017 year car as my engine is a lower engine number and mine is a MY17

 

[Skylarking]

Given that Holden’s ”MY” model years change in September (I think), even an engine built in June/July would mean they’d make it into the following model year vehicle (given component manufacture and delivery lead times). Such is mentioned in the link I provided above.

So yes, an engine built in early December 2016, as is Steve5150’s, would most certainly be used in a MY17 model year. Heck, it’s likely an engine with number *LS3*16183xxxx* could also be in a MY17

But as yet we haven’t heard back from @Steve5150 so don’t know if this is the sort of info he was after

 

[Paul Smedley]

IIRC the decoding of the engine number is as follows:
16 = 2016 built
183 = julian day of the year - ie 2nd July
xxxx = the xxxx engine of the day. ie 0001 is the 1st engine of the day, 1000 would be the 1000th of the day

All recent V8's indeed came from Silao

Uggh Skylarking already decoded it, oh well.

 

[Forg]

Given that Holden’s ”MY” model years change in September (I think), even an engine built in June/July would mean they’d make it into the following model year vehicle (given component manufacture and delivery lead times). Such is mentioned in the link I provided above.

So yes, an engine built in early December 2016, as is Steve5150’s, would most certainly be used in a MY17 model year. Heck, it’s likely an engine with number *LS3*16183xxxx* could also be in a MY17

Actually I seem to have a vague recollection that the plant in Mexico either shut down, or stopped making LS3's, before Holden stopped manufacture; and that Holden bought the entire last few batches of LS3's in one go & stockpiled them for the purposes of keeping them in engines until Holden stopped production?

 

[Steve5150]

By origin, do you mean manufacturing plant?

Pretty certain all Aus bound LS3 engines are sourced from Mexico, likely the GM Silao facility

Thanks mate

 

[Steve5150]

If by origin you mean you want to find out which vehicle (type) the engine came from, such info can't be decoded.
Holden may be able to look it up if they could be bothered (were still in business and chasing sales)...

From https://forums.justcommodores.com.au/threads/holden-and-hsv-gen-iv-engine-number-prefixes.250144/

Using your number *LS3*163381425*

LS3 is the RPO code for the engine
16 is the year 2016
338 is the julien date, that is the 338th day of the year when the engine was manufactured (day 338 is december 3rd)
1425 is the assembly plant sequence number

What the K14 signifies IDK but if there is a DGD or DCF code somewhere on the engine it could mean the following

DGD = 6.2L (option LS3) V8 - VFII Commodore (auto trans)
DGF = 6.2L (option LS3) V8 - VFII Commodore (manual trans)

Thanks for that Anthony

 

[Steve5150]

IIRC the decoding of the engine number is as follows:
16 = 2016 built
183 = julian day of the year - ie 2nd July
xxxx = the xxxx engine of the day. ie 0001 is the 1st engine of the day, 1000 would be the 1000th of the day

All recent V8's indeed came from Silao

Uggh Skylarking already decoded it, oh well.

Thanks mate!!