Prowler V6

[Aaron Willis]

At 08:00 AM 6/1/99 -0400, you wrote:
>The Z-28 has a 10,000 rpm engine?  The old 302s were redlined at 6000.  The
>highest redline pushrod Chevy I know is the old 327/365 and 327/375 which
>had 6200 rpm redlines.  It is pretty tough to get a pushrod valvetrain to
>work at 10,000 rpm and certainly not with factory parts.
>
>Gary Derian <gderian at oh.verio.com

	According to my father, who owned a '65 327/365 Corvette way back when, it
was redlined at 6500, which it easily pulled with the top down with 3.73
gears, indicating 135 MPH.  He never took that one past redline but it sure
sounded like it wanted to go there...as an aside, his '69 SS396/375 El
Camino was also a solid-cammer redlined at 6500.  Apparently it was not
nearly as fast as the Corvette, though.
	Those were (allegedly) the days...



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