1977 Camaro ZL1 ??

[RichSchmidt]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jtower1969</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;at one time ZL-1 short blocks alone costed $3000 in a crate&quot;...

.............imagine that!! </div></div>

My dad was going to purchase one from Gearheart Chevy in the early 80's for his '55. I think the price was $3500 for the long block. He took the LT 1 short block because he had a complete blower set up and a complete Hillborn set up for a small block, neither made it on to the car. He put a 250 shot Compucar kit on it. I think the heads he had were done by a &quot;Brandywine&quot; or something like that from PA. I still bust him to this day that he passed on a ZL-1. </div></div>

Yeh,but I bet the LT1 was a lot cheaper.Back in the early 80's and LS6 longblock was about $2200 and an LS-7 shortblock was about $1700. I bet that LT-1 was under 2 grand,especially if it was actually an early leftover. To add a ZL1 to a 69 Camaro cost close to 4 grand back in 1969,and that was after you factor in the deduction for whatever engine would normally come in the car. Even to assume that te price was 4 grand over a regualr base model car,you can fgure that a grand of that 4 grand was absrbed by the fact that there was no smallblock being installed.