GM Experimental Prototype SBC 3x2 / Tripower setup

[Lynn]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: earntaz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As a retired aircraft maintainer, I can tell you stainless steel-braided hose and red/blue aluminum fittings were used on AF jets I worked on back in the early '60s. So I am sure they were used for &quot;exotic&quot; applications such as this 3X2 setup. TAZ [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img] </div></div>

If you are saying a hot rodder could have used aftermarket AN fittings back in 69, I agree.
No reason to think GM would have used them. Plenty of 3x2 Pontiac, Olds, and Corvettes before 1969, and all used hard lines.

[iluv69s]

Anyone have a pic of one of these bare intakes?

[earntaz]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lynn</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: earntaz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As a retired aircraft maintainer, I can tell you stainless steel-braided hose and red/blue aluminum fittings were used on AF jets I worked on back in the early '60s. So I am sure they were used for &quot;exotic&quot; applications such as this 3X2 setup. TAZ [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img] </div></div>

If you are saying a hot rodder could have used aftermarket AN fittings back in 69, I agree.
No reason to think GM would have used them. Plenty of 3x2 Pontiac, Olds, and Corvettes before 1969, and all used hard lines.</div></div>

Maybe Smokey was involved ...

[Lynn]

He would certainly qualify as a hot rodder.

[earntaz]

Yep -- old Smokey forgot more than most of em' know ...

[1969HO455]

I thought I would update this post. This intake setup is on a 69 Camaro Z/28 that has been sitting in a backyard since 1984. My friend and I have been after this car since 2016. My buddy was finally able to purchase the car. I asked him to join this site and he will post the full story. The car was purchased by previous owner in the early 70s. He wrote technical books and articles for many automotive magazines and had connections to many heavy hitters in the industry. He built the car and parked it in 1984. The intake he bought from Smokey Yunick in the early 80s while he was at Smokey's shop interviewing him for his Book, Power Secrets with SY. Very cool car.

[Mr70]

I was just thinking about this car earlier this year and was going to bring this thread back up to the top.
Too cool.

[mssl72]

Cool car!!! Fill us in!

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]