best way to remove block vin numbers?

[moparnut]

how can you remove block vin numbers without a machine shop and get the pad clean machined? Before you all flame me its just a question, not that i plan on doing it

thanks

[72hemi]

Why do you ask? The only way to remove it and make it look like it wasn't is a machine shop, because grinders are too rough on the finish. Even then unless they cute a lot I believe the vin can still be pulled out of it.

[The Cuda Guy]

Why do you ask? The only way to remove it and make it look like it wasn't is a machine shop, because grinders are too rough on the finish. Even then unless they cute a lot I believe the vin can still be pulled out of it.

 

[moper]

It takes a special interest in doing it, and a good machinist to do it without anyone noticing.

[wagesofsin]

the procedure is tenuous.
and yes acid etching can almost always retreive the "erased" vin.

[Moparal]

The side pad or the top pad?  I would think the top pad would be easy.  I cleaned the top pad off of my 72 cuda 499 cube engine so I could stamp millenium missile on the surface. It was a 340 cuda with an rb engine

[moparnut]

I was just curious how that was done. The 70 383 dodge truck i just bought looks like it has the original motor but the VIN pad has no numbers on it. Maybe they didnt put any on or its a warrenty block?

[Moparal]

the side pad would say f 383 and have some other stampings on it for assembly date and stuff

[Aussie Challenger]

  I had an apprentice about 30 years ago who I found out was into stealing cars, he would clean off the number from the engine pad and find another number and restamp the block.      Caught him going through some old motors out back and writing the numbers down, I soon put a stop to that and for some strange reason he didn't work for me after that (he got busted). The local police came and checked the same blocks to see if any of those numbers had been used. 

[moper]

Those are not the VIN pads. If a 383 is rebuilt by a shop who is not thinking, simply decking theblock removes the codes there. They are date an option codes, that's all. Not VIN. An RB may lose it if the place does the decking properly and mills the end rails too again, without paying attention to the numbers. But to really do the VIN takes some talent.