[MotownMadman]

We have to remember that the enginneers at GM spent millions figuring all this stuff out, over and above their mathematical geeky equations they went through a great amount of money, trial, and error before coming up with the right combination. Other then tuning for the track it would be a project to out do the enginneers, the only way that is possible is to tune and do away with whatever they HAD to install to make the engines less obnoxious for the street, namely giving the car more exhaust flow. Over the years I have seen a great deal of over camming, over carbing, and neglect in the flow department. HP is made in proper tuned exhaust, no matter how much power your engine is making it doesnt do any good if it remains in the engine holding itself back. The L88 was always pushing crossing the line as far as being a practical street engine, get caught in traffic for a few hours on a hot day and it becomes easy to see why this entire engine, cam, compression, etc, etc, was just a bit overdone for a daily driver. Had it not been for the ordering paperwork showing the 435HP engine as having five more HP, a great deal more of the L88 engines with it's honest over 500HP would have made it to the street and probebly ruined the whole project for Chevrolet.
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