RAIV and RAV more continuation....

[Steve_Hoog]

Tom Goad is going to be down here next month and I'll just put it on him. I don't know how deep in the RAV program he was, so it's time to find out.

[Jeff H]

Those are some sweet looking manifolds. Imagine if Chevrolet put a decent set like that on a big block Camaro.

[Steve_Hoog]

Terry with the RAV Judgement Day passed this along:

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Steve,
I really started with a ram air three 428cid with a tri power set-up (I have one photo off that engine) I will send later. Then I went to a 440cid ram air iv and ran that for some years with different carb and cam set-ups from 2 afb's and then to a 1050 dominator. Played with different intakes, gears, and the list goes on. The ram air v was the big project it was a 455 4 bolt main block with 8 sleeves and then bored to 4.250 with a standard 4.21 crank. The block was o-ringed and I had to make my own copper head gaskets, total of 477cid. The roller cam was a Howard with a intake lift of 778, ex. about 740 if I remember right. I also made a special water system for cooling; you can see some of the plumbing in the photos. That was two Gary Williams 1050 pro stock dominators at $1500.00 each on top (and that was back then). Big block Chev push rods, Ridgeway stud girdle. Springs and all that stuff was Comp cams. Rear end was a Chev 12 bolt with a 5.14 gear. The turbo 400 trans. was my own build with a Tci brake and a 5500 stall conv. These are some things just off the top of my head, if you need more just ask. The car ran in Tulsa, Las Vegas Nev., the Texas Motorplex and orange country in California I ran the best ET and mph in Las Vegas at 9.82 148mph. here in Tulsa was a 10.02. I think I still have the et slip for Tulsa. I lost two motors before I got the combo right, the v engine is not like any other Pontiac there is a large load on bearings a other parts because of the large tunnel port heads they flow a lot of air. The valves I used were out of a ford tunnel port they were Manley stainless. The list goes on! The last motor I used was a big block Chev with Pontiac alum. pro stock heads 515cid this motor was only used for testing because I had ordered a dragster and was waiting for it to be finished. I will also send photos of the dragster too. The rods in all Pontiac motors were Bill Miller or Howard alum. rods. Later on I used Childs & Albert. The best time in the dragster was at Mo-Kan 7.82 at 170mph. The ram air v motor were $10.000 each at that time to build. The dragster engine was &18000.00. When I look back I can't believe I did all this, how far do you want to go with this? Terry


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[J GLASGO]

I did sell that RA 5 motor with the factory GTO exhaust manifolds a few months ago(wrong block),it brought alot more money than i thought it would,so i did give the guy the factory mag pulse distributor,and the complete mag pulse ignition system. It was a neat piece! I would posta couple of pics if i could figure out how to!!

[Belair62]

If you can't figure it out I can post them for you John... [email protected]

[tjs44]

John,did you have the wireing piece that went between the box and the dist.I have the 2 pieces but dont have the inbetween harness.I REALLY want those exhaust manifolds but after putting the numbers together I figured he paid 18K for the exhaust.I was in it for awhile but it just got INSANE.Tom

[StealthBird]

This is the engine bay of a 69 RAV (400) Firebird as prepped by Royal Pontiac.

[tjs44]

RA IV lower pan and no power steering cooler?

[StealthBird]

Having some fun with 11 second Bird.

[StealthBird]

Yep, strange looking, isn't it? This was the Royal Pontiac 350 F/S car that Royal prepped and ran using the 350 H.O., then later used the same car to test a RAV 400. The car has double hood tach nacelles too.

With the RAV, it ended up running 11.65 at 121 mph, and it was a tired test engine.