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10-10-2007, 10:08 PM
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Re: 1970 ls6 chevelle
Are those SS emblems upside down??
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10-10-2007, 10:19 PM
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Re: 1970 ls6 chevelle
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Are those SS emblems upside down?? [/ QUOTE ] Absolutely upside-down... 
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10-10-2007, 10:38 PM
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Re: 1970 ls6 chevelle
Back to the block cast so far prior to car build: It was not uncommon to see this occur up to 6 months of a delta (betw casting of block and build of car) acoording to Jeff Dotterer. He said this was primarily due to relatively low production numbers for the LS6 cars. They would cast a bunch of blocks based on projections and dole them out as the RPO was checked off by the customer.
I am making NO statement about this particular car in this thread.
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10-10-2007, 10:42 PM
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Re: 1970 ls6 chevelle
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Back to the block cast so far prior to car build: It was not uncommon to see this occur up to 6 months of a delta (betw casting of block and build of car) acoording to Jeff Dotterer. He said this was primarily due to relatively low production numbers for the LS6 cars. They would cast a bunch of blocks based on projections and dole them out as the RPO was checked off by the customer. I am making NO statement about this particular car in this thread. [/ QUOTE ] I never really thought of the LS6 cars as "low production" cars.  Patrick
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10-10-2007, 10:50 PM
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Re: 1970 ls6 chevelle
That is why I used the word "relatively". The bean counters at GM have to make projections on how many they feel the public will buy so the supply/support folks can ramp up to meet these needs. If they overestimate (which may have been the case with the 70 LS6) you will more likely see longer periods between casting dates of unique items (i.e. LS6 block) and the build date of the car.
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10-11-2007, 12:31 AM
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Re: 1970 ls6 chevelle
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If they overestimate (which may have been the case with the 70 LS6) you will more likely see longer periods between casting dates of unique items (i.e. LS6 block) and the build date of the car. [/ QUOTE ] Perhaps a good argument if they were thinking about building LS6 Camaros and scrapped the idea at the last minute. 
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10-10-2007, 11:19 PM
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Re: 1970 ls6 chevelle
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[ QUOTE ] Back to the block cast so far prior to car build: It was not uncommon to see this occur up to 6 months of a delta (betw casting of block and build of car) acoording to Jeff Dotterer. He said this was primarily due to relatively low production numbers for the LS6 cars. They would cast a bunch of blocks based on projections and dole them out as the RPO was checked off by the customer. I am making NO statement about this particular car in this thread. [/ QUOTE ] I never really thought of the LS6 cars as "low production" cars. Patrick [/ QUOTE ] Considering they built nearly half a million 70's I think the term is quite accurate-perhaps not if you own an L89,but they did build 51thousand L34 SS's.All depends on your frame of reference 
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10-11-2007, 12:11 AM
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Re: 1970 ls6 chevelle
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Back to the block cast so far prior to car build: It was not uncommon to see this occur up to 6 months of a delta (betw casting of block and build of car) acoording to Jeff Dotterer. He said this was primarily due to relatively low production numbers for the LS6 cars. They would cast a bunch of blocks based on projections and dole them out as the RPO was checked off by the customer. I am making NO statement about this particular car in this thread. [/ QUOTE ] I never really thought of the LS6 cars as "low production" cars. Patrick [/ QUOTE ] Considering they built nearly half a million 70's I think the term is quite accurate-perhaps not if you own an L89,but they did build 51thousand L34 SS's.All depends on your frame of reference [/ QUOTE ] O.K. I can look at it that way!  Patrick
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