muscle_collector, I'd love to see pictures of your GT-37, wrecked or otherwise. It's very likely a-bodies got both XV and YS motors through the course of the model year, probably XV's early and YS's later when the GT-37's rolled out. I've never seen either one in person, so I have no claims to being an authority by any stretch of the imagination.
shiftydr, If you do get the PHS, that would be very interesting to see what teh XV 400was installed in. Tom Miller raced a real '70 LeMans XV 400/Turbo 400/3:90 rear end at teh Pure Stock Drags about 7-8 years ago and ran 13.30's at 104 mph, so they could run with the big dogs. I'm sure it had 10.50:1 compression, and a bit more cam than the 066, as well as threaded rocker arm studs for insurance, but it was surprising and great to see that unusual (and rare) car run that hard.
The 1994 HPP GT-37 article is now recognized to have erroneous information with regard to the WS RAIII motor. It was later determined that the WT 400's were installed in non-GTO A-bodies when ordered with a manual tranmission. We are trying to find out it the WT-code 400's could be ordered earlier (prior to the GT-37 release) in LeMans' and Tempest/T-37's. The original brochures and order forms show that 4-speed (M-20) only available with the 350 2-bbl engine. We have a late March '70 build LeMans 4-door that is factory ordered with the M-20 4-spd and are trying to find out if 4-doors body styles & wagons were able to get a 400 (WT) with the stick.
I'll try to scan the Canadian PHS and photo's of that 400/auto GT-37 tomorrow.
Dennis
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