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#1
04-13-2011, 03:07 PM
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73 SD 455 on ebay?
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#2
04-13-2011, 04:37 PM
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I thought he had ram air on that car?
Very cool, I'd love to own it.
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04-13-2011, 05:12 PM
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Yes, cool car and very nicely done too!
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04-13-2011, 11:20 PM
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Neat car, looks like an HO intake on it.
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04-14-2011, 07:13 AM
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Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece, Some guys come home from work and wash up, And go racin' in the street. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street - 1978 |
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04-14-2011, 05:39 PM
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73 SD GTO
yes your right, according to Pete Macarthy's Book that intake was to be used on the 73 SD Model. I have over 500 miles on the GTO, I took it to the Woodward dream cruise, and drove it up and down Woodward for three days and thats how I racked up the miles. What a blast it was!
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#7
04-17-2011, 09:03 AM
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If you have pics of that intake including the casting #S/date codes, i'd love to see them, looks like aluminum with divorced cross over and early choke. As far as any of us that research the SDs, it never made it out on a production '73 SD engine. It'd have a "D" if it isn't an HO intake.
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#8
04-17-2011, 12:54 PM
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The HPP article had a good write up of it, I think.
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John Wallace - johnta1 Pontiac Power RULES !!! www.wallaceracing.com Winner of Top Class at Pontiac Nationals, 2004 Cordova Winner of Quick 16 At Ames 2004 Pontiac Tripower Nats KRE's MR-1 - 1st 5 second Pontiac block ever! "Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." – Socrates |
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#9
04-17-2011, 09:09 PM
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It does state that the motor was built to the original '73 SD specs, not the production version and that the early SD455 Aluminum intakes did not meet the heat retention/emissions red tape, the few already built made it out the door through the "parts" network.
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 2 sons, 2 Firebirds. 1971 Formula 455, 1972/w 455 HO added.1974 Formula 400 "retired", parts car now. 
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#10
04-17-2011, 09:38 PM
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Just to clarify, the 485640 manifold is believed to be an SD-455 manifold based on its number sequence in relation to other SD components
I don't know how many were produced, but many early 1972 455 HO engines were factory equipped with them. A very detailed inspection shows them to be identical to the typical 488945 1972 HO intake manifold in every respect, which followed for a majority of the year. |
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04-18-2011, 04:30 PM
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Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece, Some guys come home from work and wash up, And go racin' in the street. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street - 1978 |
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