L88 question
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AFAIK no factory engines were blue printed at the engine assembly plants. If the new owner was a VIP, it is possible the engine was shipped to the Test Center at Warren and gone through there before being sent on to St. Louis.
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Wes
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Talking to a couple St Louis factory engine installers the L88 came down from New York as a long block and at St Louis they finished up the engine and then installed it .there were holly reps at the factory to make final adjustments .my l88 engine isn't much different than the common 435. Engine
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Common 435... Really?....
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Blueprinting an engine means that all the parts and assemblies within it meet 'blueprint' tolerances. The assumption would be that all new parts in a newly assembled engine from the factory would be "blueprinted". However, I suspect that part of the 'blueprinting' of a factory L-88 engine would be a more closely toleranced balancing process, to support the higher revving engine.
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"Blueprinting" means that the "wiggle room" designed into a mass produced engine, is removed, and all the parts are machined as close as possible, to the "nominal" specs, as drawn on the design blueprint.
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L-88`s.....the code is IT for them
they were put together with special parts but not in any special build procedure....Yes I originally thought the assembly was balanced and blue printed {matching parts} ...That never happened and were put together in Tonawanda...I guess that spelling is close enough. And, some of the special parts were 3/8 rod bolts on a special full floating pink rod with a special domed piston and spiral locks....
The 1970 350 LT-1 as a note had special pink rods too
The engine from Tonawanda Had a light 13 Lb flywheel and a 10.5 clutch assembly, bell housing, distributor, tall full open plenum intake, water pump, and the aluminum closed chamber heads with 3/8 screw in rocker studs and exhaust manifolds' I was interested blueprint or lack of one....I did to this engine the full matching port, blueprint, weighing procedure....and I bought enough creat L-88s and put them into everything including 2 into a 18 foot drag boat..
No way is a 435 the same as a 88...the real ones are awesome....In fact I would place a L-72 right behind the 88....
The 1970 350 LT-1 as a note had special pink rods too
The engine from Tonawanda Had a light 13 Lb flywheel and a 10.5 clutch assembly, bell housing, distributor, tall full open plenum intake, water pump, and the aluminum closed chamber heads with 3/8 screw in rocker studs and exhaust manifolds' I was interested blueprint or lack of one....I did to this engine the full matching port, blueprint, weighing procedure....and I bought enough creat L-88s and put them into everything including 2 into a 18 foot drag boat..
No way is a 435 the same as a 88...the real ones are awesome....In fact I would place a L-72 right behind the 88....