Appears to be genuine ...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6420

Anyone interested in a vintage racer?

Mark.

 

cool! that thing doesnt even have the bracket for the a/c and smog, talk about them being deleted completely!

 

Is that not a 91-92 nose, lights, spoiler etc. on that alledged '89? I'm not sure why a race car would also come with an LB9, especially when in '89 they were still mounting the l98 with the t-5? Also, I'm not sure where that Camaro intake is going, as the Firebird hood closes much to tight to ever run an air intake over the radiator. If you look close that article mentions 12,400 miles on the odometer as well.

I call that ad a little suspicious. But then I'm cynical

 

Commonly in the SCCA racing or Firehawk series, you HAD to run stock cars, or stock as you interpret the rules. Hence you could only order a 305 5speed. There was never a 350 5 speed factory built.

The body work change would be correct for a racer that wanted to run a 1989 car in the 1990 season. Just update the body work and your good to go ... again depending on the rules of the series.

The intake routing and lack of A/C delete pulley is odd, but I would suspect that the car was raced in a later series where modifications like that were allowed. I also noticed headers in the picture, and that for sure would not have been allowed in the SCCA races.

12,000 miles for a car that is only raced is quite a lot if you consider that each lap is only 1-2 miles. I doubt it has ever seen street life.

Consider that this is what happened to many of the early 1LE cars.

Mark.

 

i think you have your numbers backwards, man. the LB9 WAS the 305 and the L98 was the 350, both TPI motors. the L98 NEVER came with a 5-speed from the factory. the 5-speed was a popular option on the only TPI motor it was available on, the LB9 305. the LB9 cars tended to be faster out of the box due purely to less power lost through the 5-speed, so they were chosen for this championship. and also the fact that an auto would take ALL the challenge and competition out of it! the 5-speed gave the drivers' an edge if they knew how to shift!

Josh

 

When I finally got that article on a CRT monitor I could read the article. It says it was wrecked hard in the rear and re-assembled with 91 GTA bodywork.

I didn't realize that the L98 was never attached to a manual trans. I knew it wasn't after 90 but thtought you could get it earlier.

You learn something new every day! Thanks for the info!

 

somebody changed over to SD also. i see the map sensor mounted on a 90-92 tpi plenum.