'85 IROC with 350?

[Dope]

All right guys. Sorry that this is my first post...never realized I haven't registered. I used to be on the old thirdgen.org board before it ehem...switched around...as Adam/Dope. Anyway...

I've got a guy who is trying DESPERATELY to convince me that his 85 IROC is a limited edition with a TPI 350.

I've shown him the data...no 350 IROCs in 85, only about 50 made in 86..blah blah blah.

He is convinced otherwise though (interesting note: he first tried to tell me that his was a limited edition which had the vette rear (IRS!), front end, transmission (well duh), and engine. Now, I know the guy is full of it, but how else can I prove him wrong? Any VIN decoders? Anything else I can ask him (Option codes on the door) that I can prove to him?

His current claim is that his rear bumper says "5.7 Liter TPI Injection".

I could have sworn a L98 car said something different...but I don't remmeber. 5.7 Liter Tuned Port Injection maybe? Something like that.

Any and all help would be appreciated http://www.3rdgen.org/ubb/smile.gif

Dope
2000 SS (#4567)

[Dope]

Update: he just posted this

Actually the IROC's a bizarre deal.
Found the car one day at a small dealer (in 1991)and found out he had bought the car at a goverment auction for siezed
vehicles etc. (said he heard the original owner was busted on drug charges / when i got the title "US Department Of
Justice & United States Marshall Service" were listed as previous owners / prev license plate "Exempt"). I took the car to a
local GM Dealer and had them look at it. At first they said "no way!" , but then they checked the serial #'s on the inside of
the center console and matched them up via the GM parts book and they came back saying "This is weird, but it came
with a 350 TPI according to the #'s". Since 1991 though i have had to do a few semi-major repairs to it (rear-end went
out back in 1992 / Harmonic Balancer same year due to main seal leak, etc.).

But....every GM Dealer Mechanic and Independant Mechanic that has seen the car have agreed it came with that exact
engine in it....the #'s match.

Hence the reason i was told "it's very rare"
That and the fact it was made even before the little IROC plates were made for the car. On passenger dash, both ground
effects and rear bumper there's Z-28 plates not IROC plates. But the Door Decals are present and are factory stock
silver(checked by #'s at dealer).

So, your sheet gives you the same impression as the GM dealers before they inspected the car....i'm not surprised.

Any ideas? Hmph. Engine block # maybe?

Dope

[86ZZ4]

HMMMM pathalogical liar maybe???

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86 Z28 ,ZZ4 usual bolt ons 13.707@101 on junk street tires with a blazing tractionless 2.16 60 ft . 69 AMX 390 intake and headers and sticky tires 13.74@98.5

[Newsance]

Check the VIN for the motor code. 8= L98 350. Also check his RPO codes. Look for L98.

If it isn't there, he is full of it. Which he is.

[Corey]

I think B2L was the actual RPO code that designated the L98 engine (?) Saw it over on thirdgen.org

[Timmy]

No it says "L98" on the rpo's.

[BadForm]

Heh. The IROCs didn't have iroc badges on the rockers or rear bumber until '88, when the Z28 was dropped for a few years. They had Z28 badges. And they also had Z28 on the dash, though I don't know what year that stopped.

The rear bumper would also read either "Tuned Port Injection", or "5.7 (L? Liter?) Tuned Port Injection" on the driver's side.

Every book I've read says that there were NO L98 85s. BUT there were 50 L98 86s. I don't know if any made it to the public.

I won't say it's not real. Anything's possible. But his story is highly suspect, especially if he can't tell the difference between IRS and a live axle. http://www.3rdgen.org/ubb/wink.gif

Clint

[Newsance]

He is full of shit. Bottom line.

What he is referring to is a car with a corvette motor put into a camaro from the factory.

That almost surely happened, for feasability if nothing else. However, It would not have a VIN, and therefore would not, could not have been sold. 1986, as everyone knows, was the first year of the 350 actually going into cars that coulod actually be sold.

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1991 Firebird Formula WS6- Black, L98, 350, T-tops, MSD 6 and free mods.
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Jesus Loves You. Everyone else thinks you are an asshole.

Banned- 1 time and counting!

[WS-666]

Actually, there were 50 or so of the 350 cars in 86 that were used as production prototypes, I'd be willing to bet that a COUPLE of them got sold as '87s...but for all intents and purposes 87 would be the first year the 350 was available.

[GR8LT1TA]

The few 86 350 TPI cars were test mules.

[Iroc Z285L]

The 350 Iroc Z came out in june of 86 they were surpose to be for testing use only, but i think about 50 of them were let out. In 85 they had a carbed LG4, an L69 HO, and an LB9 5L TPI.