R4Sedan
Larry
A friend of mine just picked up a low mileage motor 360. That came out of a '79 LRE P/U. Would anybody on here know the cam specs or know where he could find them.
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It's the stock 340 auto camshaft.
268/276/44
.429/.444
Das wut I thought.
How did those things run? I know they were fast when nothing else was back then.
Can't help directly.. I always assumed the LRE package was just exterior stuff and nothing different inside the motor....??
A 79 if tuned properly would go a 14.9ish.
Das wut I thought.
That's right. The W2 head was scheduled to go on the LRE, but they backed off. Wouldn't THAT have been somethin?
A neighbor had one and he claimed it would get the front wheels off the ground by just bolting w2's on it. I was also a teenager then so he could have been yanking my chain.
Low 15s. SCs and LREs clocked quick for the time, the 350 Camaros were a distant runner-up. Most other things were about as impressive as a 2 barrel Aspen.How did those things run? I know they were fast when nothing else was back then.
Just about. LRE blocks don't have any part of VINs stamped though. Cam, heads, intake, carb were the same- LREs didn't have ELB like the contemporary E58s did and they were in trucks that weighed 300-500 lbs more than the E58 F bodies. I don't know if they had different pistons- they did have 3.55s which most of the cars did not get then. The buddy seats they offered around then are some of the best for that generation truck in my mind. The LREs had a unique motor that was not offered in any other trucks, nor did any come with anything besides the basically 360 with basically E58 specs.Is the 79 E58 the same 360 specs?
They didn't because at that point the 440s had 25 less HP and weighed more. So it could've been slower and used more gas. You could get a 440 Warlock in '78 that was basically an LRE w/o stacks. They were slower- that's most of why the big blocks went away. Everything to pass smog meant that the large cars with big blocks just couldn't compete- that writing had been on the walls for years.my old LRE.. fun to a point but man it needed a big block.. only got 10mpg..