NSW Corvettes

Technical Tips => Engines - Carbies - Exhausts - Dissys => Topic started by: reserved on September 22, 2007, 01:53:02 PM

Title: L82 engine
Post by: reserved on September 22, 2007, 01:53:02 PM

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Anybody know if you can tell the difference between a standard engine and an L82 engine if there is no engine number in a 1976.
How did they develop the extra horsepower, did they have different heads which would have different casting numbers.
Was there any external differences.

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Title: L82 engine
Post by: ettev87 on September 28, 2007, 09:49:38 PM

The obvious external would be dual cold air intakes to the air cleaner. This was on the 1978 but not sure about earlier?
I believe most of the differences are internal; bigger valves, different cam, different pistons.

Title: L82 engine
Post by: TPI-383 on September 29, 2007, 12:15:57 AM

Try www.mortec.com  it is a site with chevy block and head casting numbers and where to find them,it may give you the info you need.

Title: L82 engine
Post by: reserved on September 30, 2007, 01:05:12 AM

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Thanks for the feed back , but I decided not to buy it after all.
It may have been to hard to export it out of the states without an engine number.
Also the inspection I had done stated that the engine, gearbox and diff leaked, it also had a crack in the body just behind the front bumper bar. But still it may have been a good buy for US$5500, It would have owed my about A$12000 landed in Aus.

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