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Originally Posted by McCune
Not true. The 74 L82 had 202 screw in stud heads,O Rocker arms, steel crank, pink rods, forged pistons windage tray. Basically the same as a LT1 with a hydraulic cam cast intake and quadrajet carb. Non AC cars got the deep groove pulleys. The 73 and 74 L82 engines made 10 hp less that the 71 72 LT1.
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There were stock 74 Z/28’s that would wipe the floor with many 60’s era muscle cars. Property tuned they were as fast as a low compression LT-1.
CARS magazine hi performance car of the year in 1974 for that reason.