Number of 68 COPO Chevy II s ??

[Nova Research Project]

Kim_Howie;

I do not have access to the original source for production figures. But according to the Novaresource.com link above I see the break down as this:

1968 Big Block Chevy II's
Engine....Automatics|Manuals|Total Production
L34 Engines......48.MR.|..186.MX.|.....234
<u>L78 Engines......50......|..617.MQ.|.....667</u>
Total Engines....98......|..803......|.....901

It also lists Acadians as part of the total. So the actual number of 1968 L34 Chevy II's maybe lower. On the sign in front of Chris' car speculated that there were only about 20 1968 L34 Chevy II's left.

Greg

[mr396]

The 68 M40 L34 Camaro is also MR code. Were the 234 MR code Nova's part of the 1015 MR coded engines for the Camaros?

[Kim_Howie]

The camaro and nova shared the same codes MQ,MX,MR. I am not sure if that was the same figure used.

[brideinabq]

The copo only got the M40 tran .Unfortunely thats the reason that so many of the engines were blown ,to high of a shift point(7800rpms) and not a large enough oil pan(high volume pump).

[Mr70]

Wasn't the M40 &amp; the TH400 one in the same?

[brideinabq]

No, there was the M40 first

[brideinabq]

The M40 was a high performance tranie

[Kurt S]

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Wasn't the M40 &amp; the TH400 one in the same?

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Yes. M40 was the ordering code for a TH400 trans. Same code used for all TH400's.

In 69 (not sure on other years), M40 was also the ordering code used for the TH350's and showed up on the window sticker. M38 was actually the internal GM trans code for TH350's. Go figure....

[brideinabq]

The M40 used in the 68 COPO NOVA was a very different tranie it had a 6800 rpm shift point 6 bolt pattern and one extra disc .There were only 52 of the very first ones , the other 2 were used in the Camroe paces cars used a the Indy 500 that year.

[brideinabq]

There were 2 tranies the M40 and the TH400 . The M40 of witch there were 52 made had a 7800 rpm shift point. 50 went into the NOVA AND 2 were used for the two pace cars used for the race at Indy that year