Anher Bogus L88
01-23-2010, 10:24 PM
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Does anyone reproduce those headers today?
01-24-2010, 01:06 AM
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I have run 2.73 gears at Daytona and they were too tall for my stock 69 L88. I could only pull just over 5500rpm with that gear. I ran it because Peg Bishop told me that the Dave Heinz car was running 2.73 gears, but it was obviously running MUCH more horsepower than I was.
At Talladega, Dr. Wilber Picket "towed" me around at about 180mph for my qualifying lap. That was with 3.08 gears and 27" tires. That's the fastest I ever went, Note that this was before the "bus stop" chichane was installed on the back straight at Daytona. In 1976, John Grenwood's batmobile Corvette was clocked at 254mph on the banking at Daytona.
At Talladega, Dr. Wilber Picket "towed" me around at about 180mph for my qualifying lap. That was with 3.08 gears and 27" tires. That's the fastest I ever went, Note that this was before the "bus stop" chichane was installed on the back straight at Daytona. In 1976, John Grenwood's batmobile Corvette was clocked at 254mph on the banking at Daytona.
I ran a 3.08 and 27 inch at Daytona also and I wished I had a 2.73. Maybe my L88 would still be in one piece. I was turning 7200 much of the time and that was just too much to last. But it sure was fast.
Probably something in the range of 2.80 would have been an ideal gear, or simply having a 6 speed.
01-24-2010, 10:33 AM
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01-24-2010, 12:08 PM
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I ran a 3.08 and 27 inch at Daytona also and I wished I had a 2.73. Maybe my L88 would still be in one piece. I was turning 7200 much of the time and that was just too much to last. But it sure was fast.
Probably something in the range of 2.80 would have been an ideal gear, or simply having a 6 speed.
Probably something in the range of 2.80 would have been an ideal gear, or simply having a 6 speed.
01-24-2010, 07:28 PM
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I e-mailed the seller. It's an estate sale, and only being sold as described. The estate owner passed away in 2009. He confirmed my question of it NOT being an original L-88. 
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01-24-2010, 07:46 PM
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All these years I thought that the L-89 had aluminum heads but the L-88 had iron heads. I have to apologize to a guy who has a 1969 that he swears is an L-88, (and dealer backed him up when I asked) but has aluminum heads and I have always insisted that meant it was an L-89. So both have aluminum heads, just painted in the case of the L-88? So much for thinking I knew what I was talking about.
01-24-2010, 08:32 PM
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All these years I thought that the L-89 had aluminum heads but the L-88 had iron heads. I have to apologize to a guy who has a 1969 that he swears is an L-88, (and dealer backed him up when I asked) but has aluminum heads and I have always insisted that meant it was an L-89. So both have aluminum heads, just painted in the case of the L-88? So much for thinking I knew what I was talking about.
01-24-2010, 09:39 PM
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01-24-2010, 11:08 PM
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I can only imagine how those guys in those original L88s back in the '60s must have felt, with none or little aerodynamics on the bodies, and the ability to fly like an airplane.
I imagine that may be why this one is geared the way it is, attempting to make it like a Daytona racer. But the 2.73 was not available in anything in '67 from the factory. It wasn't until the '68 big block autos were available that the 2.73 was an RPO.
01-25-2010, 01:55 PM
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01-25-2010, 04:39 PM
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The L88`s cylinder heads were painted with the engine, {see Boat pictures}.....they also came with cast iron exhaust manifolds not headers....I believe I read somewhere 'Kustom Equipment' in Flint Michigan built some for GM....
01-25-2010, 05:23 PM
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I thought I heard VetteFinder Jim say in a thread a few weeks/months ago that they were still looking for the last of the 67 L88s. Was the last one just found? Or was that statement not right? Or am I not remembering it right? Just curious....
01-25-2010, 05:46 PM
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they are painted from the factory, thats why, not raw aluminum and it actually does have the correct block, ..{suffix 'IT} but whats in it. There is more to a real L88 than the correct block.
Whether the car is a L88 car, who knows without the original order or window sticker...that been said anything can be printed....With that 2.73 gear the car would never get out of 2nd....talk about skipping and bucking that gear selection could not have been worse for the street...a 4.1 does work though....I dont believe its real except for the block unless that too was a re-stamped stocker...
by the way the 88`s are not that bad on the street......
Here are a pair of real L88`s straight from there crates....Notice the yellow sticker on the back of the right valve covers with the 'IT' printed on them...thats the correct L88 engine suffix....and its not on the engine in the for sale car...whatever
Whether the car is a L88 car, who knows without the original order or window sticker...that been said anything can be printed....With that 2.73 gear the car would never get out of 2nd....talk about skipping and bucking that gear selection could not have been worse for the street...a 4.1 does work though....I dont believe its real except for the block unless that too was a re-stamped stocker...
by the way the 88`s are not that bad on the street......
Here are a pair of real L88`s straight from there crates....Notice the yellow sticker on the back of the right valve covers with the 'IT' printed on them...thats the correct L88 engine suffix....and its not on the engine in the for sale car...whatever
01-25-2010, 07:24 PM
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I feel that if you really look at the text of this ad, the owner is not trying to pass this coupe off as 1 of the 20 '67 L-88s . I never got the impression that he was trying to defraud anyone or claim that he had an original car.
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01-25-2010, 07:46 PM
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01-25-2010, 07:54 PM
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