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I did not know this about that cam. I remember when I had trouble with my 65 BB cam some old timers around my town told me the oiling was the same as the 55 265. I guess not. It’s close. Thanks for the picture.
From: Putnam Valley, New York. Amateur Radio Operator K2NS
Cam
I don't want to hijack this thread, but I have a Quick interesting story. I bought a brand new 68 Impala in June 68. It was special ordered with an L-72 425HP/427. It was $3723 out the door---I had to put down $3000 for the dealer to order it. In 1970 I got a hairbrained idea to convert the engine to an L-88. I had the engine bored .060 over and installed the L-88 pistons, rods, and cam. Biggest mistake of my hotrodding career--The car was virtually undriveable on the street. Meanwhile a friend of mine had a 66 Chevelle 396/360HP. I gave him my old cam and lifters and he installed them. He said the car ran great-----For about 3 hours. All the rocker arms started squealing due to no oil up on top. The OEM 1968 L-72 cam had NO GROOVE in the rear journal. The replacement over the counter cams did, because Chevrolet did not know what year engine they were going into. He went to Byrne Brothers Chevrolet in Valhalla, NY and bought a cam---It had the groove in it and solved his problem. By the way, that's me in the third picture---21 years old with a brand new car, a full head of hair, and not a care in the world !!!
From: Putnam Valley, New York. Amateur Radio Operator K2NS
Originally Posted by Nowhere Man
Do you know where that car is today. They are cool cars
Yes, a guy in Connecticut bought it about 5 years ago and restored it. I posted those pictures about 5 years ago on this forum and he saw them. He e-mailed me and asked me questions about the car. I told him some of the things I did to it, and everything matched. The one conclusive fact was the engine had 1 oversized head bolt. When I installed the heads after the changeover to an L-88, the right side rearmost headbolt hole stripped out. While the head was still on, I tapped the block out to 1/2"-13, and installed a Buick head bolt. When he took the engine apart, that oversized head bolt was still in there !!!
RON
P.S. The car was built in the Tarrytown, NY plant. At that time, I was still living at home with my parents in Irvington, NY, about 5 miles away from the plant. I knew roughly when the car was going to be built, and the weekend after the build date, I took a ride over there, and there it was, the last car in the row about 5 feet from the fence I was standing in front of.
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