RAIV and RAV more continuation....

[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]

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.

[J GLASGO]

Tom,i had the complete harness with everything including nos coil,and rebuilt amp,it worked great.The price of the parts was quite surprising,but the exhaust manifolds dont pop up for sale very often.I actually crated the motor and trucked it.The exhaust manifolds were picked up by hand in a new suitcase,and were driven 2500 miles across the country!I wish i would have done a couple of things different when i did that motor,i think it would have ran considerably better,although it was still a handfull on the street.Steve ,i think the manifolds on the hot rod cover,may be the same as the ones Bob Mullikan has on his Judge,he and i actually raced each other a couple of times at the gto nats in 91? Pretty rare to see 2 Ram Air 5 GTO,s with factory exhaust manifolds drag racing!!

[Belair62]

John...those pics are huge files...can you send seperate e-mails for each photo ??/

[Chevy454]

Bill Schultz's '69 Royal GTO that was at SCR7...it was a magazine test car back in the day...was it a RAV?

[Steve_Hoog]

Belair

If John's files are too big, I have unlimited email size at [email protected] and I can resize and post on my server if needed. I would really like to see them.

John

That other GTO is probably the one Gene Ingle first raced from our dealership. I have pics of it launching at 91 Nats but not you? Would love to see your ride on the track if you have one of those? For the life of me I can't see how that left side manifold in that Hot Rod would fit between the frame rails of an A body, but you never know. I also wonder if they are aluminum.

Then why some one doesn't take a set of the A body manifolds to one of the two places repo'ing them, I'm not real sure. With so much money involved in the rare originals, a couple of copies you think my sell for several thousand in them self.

Steve

[tjs44]

John,any idea where I can find the inbetween harness,I have everything else,NOS coil,dist and the box.Dave Fiedler made sure everything worked but did not have the connecting harness.I want to put it in my 69 T/A but dont want a trashed up looking harness.Tom

[StealthBird]

Having some fun with 11 second Bird.