<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pxtx</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why call it an L88 then? I'm sure it may have been done, but has anyone seen anything to doccument GM calling the iron head offering an L88?
I know Don Yenko called the Nova LT1 a Corvette engine in his marketing. Maybe GM was doing the same thing.
I personally would not accept calling an iron head motor an L88.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Enoch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Plowman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I though L88's had aluminum heads. </div></div>
you could get over the counter L-88's and L-S7's with steel heads. </div></div> </div></div>
Some Super Car Conversion companies used the L88 short block assemblies with both aluminum heads as well as iron heads.