Did a 350 tpi ever get mated to a manual transmission in an fbody?


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No.

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one of the guys my parents are friends with had a 89 firbird with a 350 tpi and a 4 speed, he paid a lot for it don't know if it was some weird gm promo or what but other wise i've never seen that or any other 5 speed hooked to a 350. wish i knew the vin so i could check it out.

The firehawk had a 6 speed.

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Sorry to have to wave the B.S. flag, but there were NONE of the 5.7 cars equipped with any type of factory manual trans other than the Firehawk that came with a 6 speed. A 4 speed has no room in the trans tunnel for the shift linkage, so I highly doubt that GM ever put one in, even if it was a test mule.

Until I see proof I am going to stand by my opinion.

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I've got one...but I did a motor swap

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Yes a few and i mean few 1986 1LE camaros got a 350 and 5spd combo it was a funky thing because the 350 was not avail actuly till 1987 but some late 86's came with the L98 and if you got the 1LE then you had to have a 5spd you clould not get it with a auto i belive.

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A few of this a few of that. It's all BS. Until somebody actually shows me proof, I'm never going to believe it. This gets hashed and rehashed weekly on thirdgen.org, and nobody has ever furnished proof.

There was no such thing as "1LE" until 1988.

No 86 L98s exist, nevermind L98 5-speeds. There were exactly 50 L98s produced in 86 as test mules. ALL of them were equipped with a 700R4, hardtop, base interior, and no AC. All of them were introduced to the crusher.

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[This message has been edited by Jim85IROC (edited June 24, 2002).]

Just wandering exactly why the 4 spd wouldn't fit. They were put in the 82-84 Trans Am's and they're the same. The linkage isn't that close either.

Yes, and I have seen one with my own two eyes. I ran into an 88 iroc that I think may have been a 1LE car that had a 350 5.7L with a 5spd tanny. It had no ac, no foglights, and no power anything. the body was in tough shape and at the time I didn't know that much about camaro's and didn't realize what I was looking at, but to answer your question yes they were made but very very few, maybe 500 at most between 88-92.

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There were exactly 26 introduced to the public. Those 26 were the 91 and 92 Firehawks. 1 in 91 and 25 in 1992. Thats the final answer on this topic. No more Debate! There may have been test mules built but NO ONE has ever owned one and never will. Other than the firehawks there were none released to the public. All you newbies can debate this if you want but like I said before, THERE IS NO DEBATE. There were only 26 produced. Ok?

85IROC and IrocZ-28 are correct.

There were 4 1LE cars produced in 88. The chances that you even saw a real 88 1LE is so slim that it can basically be dismissed. Add to that the fact that L98 5 speeds just flat out don't exist, and there's really nothing to debate. The cars absolutely could not have been "snuck out the back door" or in any other way produced without there being official record of it, and plenty of public knowledge. You can say that you saw this or saw that, but as usual, nobody has proof. It's not hard to swap a motor or swap a transmission and make it look stock. Until somebody shows me a build sheet, or even an RPO tag, I'm not buying it.
If these cars really existed, somebody would have offered proof by now. If I counted every car that somebody saw with their own eyes, knew the original owner of, etc, there would be at least a thousand documented originals. So where are they?


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[This message has been edited by Jim85IROC (edited June 25, 2002).]

Actually, there were 6 Firehawks built in 1991 and 19 in 1992, for a total of 25. There were supposed to be 27 but two didnt get built. I wish SLP had continued the Firehawk program in 1993 as more than just exhaust and a hood, but I guess the cost was too great.


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