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What year was the "Super Power Pack Option" offered for the Chevrolet?
thanks,
Em

i dont know but i remember chevy guys 40 years ago saying " Yep " it`s got power pack heads on it "

Everything you wanted to know about sbc pp looks like 1957

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Mike that's what my step-son says but my friend and old school mate from the class of 57 says '56. I can remember seeing a 56 black 2dr bel air in Victoria, Texas when I was a teen and the owner told me it was a Power Pack - - - - - NOW there's a possibility that it could have been 1957 when I saw it so he would have had the opportunity to have updated the '56. Everything that I google doesn't give me a definite year or at least not to my feble mind anyhow.

That's like the 64 1/2 Mustang! Ford never sold a 64.5 Mustang.. they were all titled as a 65.

They were being built in middle 64 and even sold at the end of 64.. but they were all titled as a 65.

Maybe the same thing happened with the power pack?

Got another email from my School Mate and long time Hot Rodder and he said he asked all the folks at the Car Club meeting last night and they all agree it was '56 so that's what I'm going with !

Correct, Em. A look under the hood of a '56 and you see a four barrel, it's a "power pack" 283. In '57 you could get throttle-body fuel injection.

Please be advised that these are words from an old goat who never was a Chevy guy.

The first time my '56 Dodge D500 was beaten on a drag strip it was by an injected '57. In my dreams I can still see those damn pointy '57 Chevy rear fenders going past me.

I take comfort in the fact that he "had inches" on me ....... 327 to my 315 Dodge hemi.

Jim

the FI was direct port squirt nozzles--------but was not 8 stack if that was why you called it a throttle body injector

I don't doubt at all that you're right, Jerry. As I indicated I was never much of a Chevy enthusiast, even though I have owned several and my wife drives one now.

According to a Motor Trend article I just found, the "Super Power Pack" was offered in the Bel Air in late '55, bringing the dual exhaust 195 horsepower Corvette engine package to the Bel Air body.

Originally Posted by Big Tracks

Correct, Em. A look under the hood of a '56 and you see a four barrel, it's a "power pack" 283. In '57 you could get throttle-body fuel injection.
Please be advised that these are words from an old goat who never was a Chevy guy.
The first time my '56 Dodge D500 was beaten on a drag strip it was by an injected '57. In my dreams I can still see those damn pointy '57 Chevy rear fenders going past me.
I take comfort in the fact that he "had inches" on me ....... 327 to my 315 Dodge hemi.
Jim

Jim, I think you'll find that the '55 and '56 Chevies had a 265, not a 283, which came out in '57. I saw a '56 at the drag strip in 1958 that had 2-4bbl carbs and the cam made it say.....potato, potato, potato, potato. (Duntov cam). Also, the Rochester F.I. system was mechanical. Pontiac had a mechanical F.I. system on the 389 in '58. I saw one at Dahio Drag Strip in '58 (a bundle of black tubes).

And by the way, that '56 sittin' there idling like that is what flipped my switch. I was smitten and ruined forever.

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back then there were options that came in the trunk for dealer install------------cmas, carbs,continental kits

Dang, Tech, I haven't heard anybody say "potato, potato, potato" in a long time; what a distinctive sound. Like you say, I was smitten; today, I can still hear a "cammy" engine a mile away, if it has a "good" exhaust system on it, no matter what type it is.

Originally Posted by techinspector1

Jim, I think you'll find that the '55 and '56 Chevies had a 265, not a 283, which came out in '57.

Well, Richard, I give up. I sat down here to prove you to be wrong....... and I could not do it.

A few years back I tried the same thing. I've forgotten what the subject was then but I do remember that it didn't work that time either!

Jim

What I have gotten so far is that the "Power Pack" was NOT necessarily available "only" on the 283 but a version of it was available in LATE 1955 for the 265 also but the 4bbl option was only offered for the 283???? Am I even close?

However, the best part of this thread was "potato, potato, potato, potato"
Em