Thread: I'm a proud owner of a 82 Z28

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That's good info, enough to talk me into leaving the heads on. I really don't want to hot rod it but just wake it up a bit. In 1982 Chevy's secondary flagship car was turning 145 HP , that was the high performance model I really would like to leave in in an un molested condition as much as possible, not that if makes a difference right now, but maybe in 10 yrs it will. From the little research I found it has a 400 cfm Q jet and I would like to leave that on as well or have someone teach me how to raise the cfm on it if necessary if stuff is changed. Maybe a cam change, intake and exhaust could gain some but not sure it's worth the effort. When I was a kid in 1988, my brother rebuilt a 83 Z28 in auto body school and I thought that was the most awesome car ever. I asked him about that and how I thought that thing had lots of power then. He said that one had the HO 305 which was the L69 option, that one did have power for the day. He was telling me he raced his buddy's 76 Camaro with a 400 in it and they were side by side the whole way.I remember him burning out sideways after church one Sunday that leaves an impression on a kid

Edit- Not that it matters or I care a lot but just snooping around on the 83 HO. Most say they came only with a 5 speed manual, my brother's was a 4 speed auto. That means his car was extremely rare or not a L69. If it wasn't a L69 but just a regular Z28 and it kept up with a 400 sbc, that means his buddy could have used some help building a 400