Dmeeks

2011 #436 built by Bruce Blomfield. I bought it in November with 3400 miles on it.

2011gsJoe

2009 JSB...bought the car in January with only 2300 miles on it and just this week got it licensed and can't wait to get some time behind the wheel. I checked out the engine tag: Richard McBride built my LS9, but getting the serial number is quite challenging. I'll have to get that another day.

NofakeJake

Welcome to the family Joe!

Your vin number can be found at the bottom of the windshield on the driver side of your car. The last four digits reveal your unit / build number

I've owned 3 of Mr McBrides blocks and he only builds monsters. My current car dyno'd 556HP/ 550 TQ at the wheels

DebRedZR1

Or on title, registration, insurance

NofakeJake

HP, beauty and smarts ... Quite a combination

BTW Deb, don't get those black wheels. It leads to more mods, like that pulley

Just a suggestion

2011gsJoe

Thanks for the info, guys. I actually know the VIN number for my car, but I thought the members were posting a serial number tagged on the engine block itself. That's what I am having a hard time finding (if that's the case).

eaglei

Hey Joe,

There is a serial number for your unique engine. The EUN (Engine Unit Number) is located on the bar code labels on your LH cylinder head. The labels are on the front and rear surfaces of the head. Labels are not easy to see - you may need a small adjustable mirror to read your number. Number can be decoded to give you the birthdate and sequence number of your LS9. Here's a shot of an EUN label. This one is on the build manifest but is same as ones on engine.

2011gsJoe

Thanks so much for confirming this for me. This is what I thought - and it is a bit of a trick to get to the label. When it gets warmer here, I'll take your suggestion and use an adjustable mirror to help.

02 mo

Just recently purchased 2009 1263 miles, #526 built by Don Henley!

Burgy

2010 #1555 -- Mike Priest. What a beast!

blue corvette

2012 ZR1 VIN:1G1YN2DT6C5100043
Engine Builder
RON HEIN

oysteinrogne

Mine was built by Mike Priest. How do you find the serial number?
Car #1306

eaglei

The EUN (engine unit number) is located on two bar code labels on the front and rear surfaces of your LH cylinder head. Not easy to see, you will probably need a mirror and some luck to get the numbers.

Here's a shot of an LS9 label attached to the build manifest (identical to labels on engine).

eaglei

Had a Corvette Forum request for final production numbers from Wixom. So I did a little digging and here's what I came up with by each model year.

2006 LS7 (Z06) 6,272
2007 LS7 (Z06) 8,159
2008 LS7 (Z06) 7,731
2009 LS7 (Z06) 3,461
2010 LS7 (Z06) 518
2011 LS7 (Z06) 904
2012 LS7 (Z06) 478
2013 LS7 (Z06) 471
2013 LS7 427 Convertible 2,552

Total LS7 Corvette 30,546

2009 LS9 (ZR1) 1,415
2010 LS9 (ZR1) 1,577
2011 LS9 (ZR1) 806
2012 LS9 (ZR1) 404
2013 LS9 (ZR1) 482

Total LS9 Corvette 4,684

2010 LS3 (GS) 1,468
2011 LS3 (GS) 1,699
2012 LS3 (GS) 1,628
2013 LS3 (GS) 1,515

Total LS3 dry sump GS 6,310 (manual shift coupes only)

Total Wixom PBC Corvette engines 41,540

Note: This total does not include crate engines (either full builds or long blocks).

Numbers as interpreted from Corvette Action Center website. Cannot verify absolute accuracy.

Gary '09 C6

...41,000+ engines is plenty for all Wixom PBC employees to be proud of, Don !

Gary

eaglei

As of May 16, 2014:

Mike Priest- 36 (PBC BG)
Ron Hein- 24 (Transferred)
Rick Dadd- 23 (Retired)
Bruce Blomfield – 21 (Retired)
J.D. Dickinson- 17 (Retired)
Richard McBride- 13 (Transferred)
Mike Armstrong- 12 (Retired)
John A. Ross- 12 (Transferred)
James Knipp- 9 (Transferred)
Thomas N Taylor / T N Taylor - 7 (Retired)
Gary Andrews- 6 (Transferred)
Don Henley - 6 (Transferred)
Rodger Schultz- 5 (Transferred)
Chas. Giese Jr. – 3 (Transferred)
John Ketchum- 3 (Transferred)
Ronald Lucas – 2 (Transferred)
R H Booker - 1 (Transferred)
Darius Henry - 1 (Transferred)
Mike Klamo - 1 (Transferred)
Byron Marshall – 1 (Transferred)
Chris Mason - 1 (Transferred)
Gary Phillips- 1 (Transferred)
Dale Simmet – 1 (Retired)

Mike Johnson - 1 (Guest Builder)
Jordan Lee – 1 (Guest Builder)
Ken Wright – 1 (Guest Builder)

Forum member total = 195 + 13 = 208 LS9’s posted.

Please keep the posts coming in! Only about 4.44% have been posted on this Forum.
It’s OK to bully and cajole your friends to make a posting.

Yes it is true, Wixom PBC has finished building engines for C6 Corvette production. It has been a great run!

Performance Build Center has now moved to the Corvette Assembly plant at Bowling Green, KY. Best wishes to the PBC team for continued success at BG!

I will continue to monitor and update the totals so let's keep this thread alive. No sense ending our beautiful friendships now...

Many thanks for your support for the gang at Wixom. We have been truly fortunate for so many loyal and appreciative ZR1 owners.

Joe_G

Don, does that mean you moved to BG? If so, that's great, would be great to see you again at one of the bash or other get togethers!

Are you guys going to do a SEMA build this year? I think that is GREAT marketing to the performance Vette crowd.

eaglei

Hello Joe!

Sorry but I did not take the move to BG. It was a tough choice but instead I took a job at GM Milford Proving Ground. I'm working with Durability Testing, so this too is a good job (maybe not as cool as doing Corvette engine builds though).

I also hope Chevy Marketing sponsors an engine build demo at SEMA again this year. As you know we had a great response when we did SEMA. It was a little unnerving to be in the spotlight, but a lot of fun to meet Corvette enthusiasts like you! And it seems to me like we delivered a pretty good bang for the buck. Certainly I would be willing to be involved...

Best to you Joe and thanks for your continued support!

Joe_G

There is no doubt that you guys being there and rubbing elbows with the fans was a great marketing idea (and GM could use some right now with all the bad press going on) - it's personal when you can meet the guys who build the cars and connect with them on that level. Builds great brand loyalty.

Durability testing huh...perhaps your team wants to investigate my OE clutch which as 76,000 daily driving stop and go miles on it and 494 drag strip passes, usually with a 1.4 60 foot on a 6,000 launch like below? I plan to frame that thing if it ever starts to slip which it hasn't in 9 years....

That clutch in my car has to be some sort of record for durability. Carries me dutifully back and forth to work in bumper to bumper then delivers a 1.4 60 foot on demand.

eaglei

Joe that's very impressive! (Your run and the clutch durability).

Showed your video to one of our durability engineers and he loved it. Said he would show it to the clutch guy in the Corvette group.

Believe it or not there is a huge emphasis on durability. Engineers and techs pore over these cars and trucks looking for any potential issues. But I know, with all the bad press of late, there is a lot of skepticism about GM...

So I think I know your secret to clutch durabilty. Just how many cc's of Marvel Mystery Oil did you add to your clutch fluid?

Rock on Joe!!