Fastguy

Go to Superfast80's website.
Read "The Mark Of Zora" link and hear it from the man himself.:)

SuperFast80

'And with unrestricted exhaust, 640. I pick 430, I don't know why. Is just a number.' :lol:

Chris Fowler

I love it! :lol: :lol:

SBR

Bad L88, Do not run a chambered exhaust it is to restrictive. If you run headers use them with the side exhausts that were a dealer option on L88s. This way you will have the HP you want and it will give your car a vintage racecar look.

Chuck Harmon

BAD-L88,

It sounds like you are doing what I started nearly 15 years ago. I always wanted to experience what the famed L88 was all about. I bought a pair of NOS factory iron exhaust manifolds so that I could have a stock setup too. I have never mounted them and probably won't. The headers are too important to make the power. I can now understand why the L88 is the stuff of legends.

Chuck

67HEAVEN

Chuck,

Drop a trailer hitch on that baby, hook up a fuel tanker with aviation and come on up for launch day. We'll blast around Mosport like the good 'ol days. :cheers:

And for a special treat, I want someone to videotape the Hemis and 440's oversteering into the woods. We can show the tapes at some of the Cruise-Ins.
:lol: :lol:

Chuck Harmon

Maybe a better tow vehicle would be a Mopar? Either a Hemi or 440 would be good enough for that, right?


Chuck :lol:





[Modified by Chuck Harmon, 9:36 PM 1/9/2002]

BAD-L88

Chuck,

I stand corrected on the RPM's. And yes, I soon hope to fully experience the legend.

SBR,

Because of everything I have read here, the chambered option is now dead. It's stock, headers to stock pipes, or headers to side pipes. You are reading my mind on the dealer option side pipes.

PMemes Twitter

I had seen anywhere from 550-580

Jebbysan

With a modern valve spring and ring pack they will make 580 all day long.......give it a 5 angle Serdi job with Ferrera 6000 valves and a mild blend, that number goes to 620 or so......this is assuming all GM parts.
Wonder what the first guy that drove one in 66' though when he jumped on the first L-88 test mule?.........nobody had even heard of anything that powerful.......what a time that must have been.

Jebby

WA 2 FST

Seeing some in "pure stock" form run 10s @122-123mph at the drag strip, all I know is that is a LOT more than 430hp flywheel.

'75

18 year old thread, wonder if this is a record? Still interesting though.

7t9l82

I bought an early 68 L-88 roadster about 1975 from s local SCCA racer going through a divorce. He also had a 67 he was not selling. He had the Stahl side pipes on it.i didn't think it ran as good as it should so I ran through the valves which were all over the scale. Put a curve in the distributor. Then changed to an old 3 barrel Holley later changed it to something else . But just those changes I really have to say it had to be 600 horsepower. 3:73 gears at 100 mph it didn't just burn the tires if your tire pressure was off on one side it was dangerous. I had lots of fun with that car. I raced some kind of Ferrari on the Dulles access road outside d.c and from the time we took off I watched his headlights get smaller till they disappeared.
A buddy at the DMV got me a special tag I8A4RE. I WAS TRULY blessed early in my life by being in the right place at the right time.. good luck with your adventures you will love it

vettebuyer6369

Responding to an 18 year old post. Might be a record.