67 Z28 intake with '65 casting date

[olredalert]

----First, I stand corrected. I know little about the genesis of the Z/28 program. Its great to learn about this stuff........Bill S

[Charley Lillard]

Yes I have one on my 67 Z with the aluminum engine. Cool to see another one.

[92646]

Aluminum small block? As in all aluminum GM small block? Can you tell us the story on the motor please?

[runningbear55]

I paid $550 to my door WITHOUT HESITATION to own this baby!!! Maybe it makes up for the '67 427/435 Vette 3X2 intake I once had, that I sold at a NY swap meet in the 80's for under $200!! Sold it to pay for new driveshafts in my Vette motored '75 K5 Blazer. I snapped BOTH power braking for the amusement of my friends. I obtained it in trade, for a cast iron Saginaw 4 speed out of a 78 Malibu 4 door!!! Ohhhhh, the treasures I had that I let go of!! Lets not even talk about the '65 409 4 speed Impala SS CONVERTIBLE I took parts from in a Catskill's junkyard....to build a 6cyl rat!!! 7K tach and all... 20/20 Hindsight...

[iluv69s]

not to hijjack the topic, when I used to sell at Carlisle, I sold a "complete" NOS x-ram setup for 3500 bucks including carbs, fuel lines, and every part and also some duplicate/extra parts even the aircleaner and 2 foam seals (that were junk once we opened the boxes)... haha ... and I delivered it from Philadelphia to Chicago for that price !!!! I thought I killed on that deal !!! haha....

cool intake though..would love to have it, but my 67 Z project has other more urgent priorities right now.
Good luck with it. You need to find an all-aluminum motor....and then buy a 67 Z for it just like Charley did !!

[runningbear55]

I'm out of the Z28 game...since I had to let my Black '81 4 speed w/o AC, and my 30K mile, full option, black, orig. owner '86 TPI G92, 4 wheel disc brake IROC go. Now I'm just collecting Vette, and Z28 engine goodies to use on my '55 2 door sedan.

[L72copocamaro]

Very cool manifold and I'd like to have one... but it still has nothing to do with the Z-28 program though.

[runningbear55]

I disagree. It pre dates the Z28 "production" hi rise...and it is almost identical. It seems almost certain, to be one of the earliest prototypes leading to the Z28 assembly line version with casting number and firing order. It is definitely not a L-79 dual plane...that is obvious. And it has an "0-" experimental part number, so what other explanation makes sense?

[leach]

Way I heard from friend who has one of the original 1967 Camaro Z28 test ones with the intage on it that were given to Nascar crews to do a test at Daytona all those cars came out before the 1967 ones ever hit the market. His had disk brakes all the way around still had the headers on the 302 original engine trans and rear no back seat painted orange under neath and when he took paint off had number on the door he still has the car don't know if they gave 20 or so of them to test out.

[L72copocamaro]

For arguments sake, let's say you're right. Then it proved inadequate and may have led to another 0 design that led to the tuned runner open plenum 610 manifold. There were thousands of experimental parts made back then to keep GM competitive. Your manifold could have been cast for any number of reasons or applications. It's a very cool piece of Chevy history, but saying it has to be a Z-28 prototype is probably not accurate. It is dated way before the conception of the Z, and VP stated that the engineers used off the shelf parts for the prototype Z. So the manifold was apparently not specific for the 302. But who knows, you could just as easily be right, but I doubt you'll ever be able to prove that.