385hp
Race Director
Joined: Dec 1999
Posts: 19,610
Likes: 778
From: Forked River NJ
Tell him to put the crack pipe down.
Unless he is talking about the Duntov turbo. I still don't think it was 385HP. I think about only 80 or so were built out of a supposed run of 200. They did not sell well.Car was butt ugly!
http://www.superchevy.com/features/c...olet-corvette/
Unless he is talking about the Duntov turbo. I still don't think it was 385HP. I think about only 80 or so were built out of a supposed run of 200. They did not sell well.Car was butt ugly!
http://www.superchevy.com/features/c...olet-corvette/
Last edited by Gordonm; Apr 27, 2019 at 12:52 PM.
Corvette Stories
The Best of Corvette for Corvette Enthusiasts
8 Coolest Corvette Pace Cars (and Replicas) of All Time
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Corvette Engines RANKED by Peak Torque (70+ Years of Muscle!)
Joe Kucinski
Corvette ZR1X Will Be Pacing the Indy 500, And Could Probably Race, Too!
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Corvettes Coming to Mecum Indy 2026!
Brett Foote
Top 10 C9 Corvette MUST-HAVES to Fix These C8 Generation Flaws!
Michael S. Palmer
10 Revolutionary 'Corvette Firsts' Most People Don't Know
Joe Kucinski
5 Reasons to Upgrade to an LS6-Powered Corvette; 5 Reasons to Stay LT2
Michael S. Palmer
2027 Corvette vs The World: Every C8 vs Its Closest Competitor
Joe Kucinski
10 Most Common Corvette Problems of the Last 20 Years!
Joe Kucinski
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,456
Likes: 102
From: Piedmont Va
St. Jude Donor '11-'12-'13,'19-'20
There is an old war story around here about a long decommissioned local Chevy dealer owned by a hot rodder who hated the EPA regs. As the story goes, he acquired several L-46 crate counter engines brand new from GM. If you new, or new someone in the know, they would take a brand new Vette or Z-28 and swap a L-46 into it as a dealer option. They would also pull the cat and run standard dual exhaust. Also as the story goes, the EPA caught wind and started turning up rocks, and the remaining L-46's were removed from the dealer under the cover of darkness and sold off on the used market. Nothing was ever proven and it eventually went away.
I'd bet this wasn't the only dealer pulling this stuff off back then.
I'd bet this wasn't the only dealer pulling this stuff off back then.
Safety Car
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 4,355
Likes: 2,633
From: Draper Utah
Not a chance in hell it came from the factory. I was big into SCCA racing in the 80's and if such an animal existed it would have found its way to the race track and been all conquering. The racers would have been all over such a car before it hit the end of the assembly line.
