1970 engine UPC code help

[Mike Trom]

The 1970 GS455 Daily Car Reports show three engines.

Flint built cars only.
L75 (Stage 1) = 2865 cars
L98 ? = 278 cars
L99 (Standard 455) = 2319
Total - 5462

What is an L98 engine? :Do No:

[bob k. mando]

i'm only showing three options total for the 1970 year.
SF = Riviera
SR = standard
SS = Stage 1

i suppose it's possible that they ran into some shortages on normal 455 production and just shoved a couple of Riv engines into the GS's?

[Marco]

The 1970 GS455 Daily Car Reports show three engines.

Flint built cars only.
L75 (Stage 1) = 2865 cars
L98 ? = 278 cars
L99 (Standard 455) = 2319
Total - 5462

What is an L98 engine? :Do No:

Hi Mike -

I don't know why it's separate, but L98 appears to be the GSX 455 non-stage motors.

There is also a discrepency in the 1970 GSX 4-speed figures...

[Duane]

Mike & Marco,

If this is true, "L98 appears to be the GSX 455 non-stage motors", the only difference that I know of between these motors and ones put in regular 455 GS's was the pulleys. All GSX's, whether they were AC or non-AC still came with the AC pulleys and the corresponding Alt belt.

Maybe Buick coded them this way because they automatically knew which pulleys/belt to attach. They would have needed more information for the other motors, ie, AC vs non-AC.
Duane

[Mike Trom]

Hi Mike -

I don't know why it's separate, but L98 appears to be the GSX 455 non-stage motors.

There is also a discrepency in the 1970 GSX 4-speed figures...

Marco/Duane, that does make sense.
678 GSX's built
400 were stage 1 cars
that leaves 278

The DCR's are weird, I don't know why they listed some of the option group totals like what type of tires came with AC cars :Do No: Why was that important :Do No:

Thanks....

[Duane]

Mike,
Am I understanding you correctly, you are trying to make sense out of "Bean counters"?

"The DCR's are weird, I don't know why they listed some of the option group totals like what type of tires came with AC cars Why was that important." Who knows maybe most of the cars had AC so they wanted to know how many tires to stock.

In my area Penn Dot (Pennsylvania Dept of Transportation) did a 3 year study on the feasability of repairing a road. They spent something like 2 million dollars on the study, and then decided not to do it. A few days later the local TV station then did their own, including pictures of holes through bridges. Surprisingly the road started getting fixed within a few months.
Duane

[Mike Trom]

Duane,

You are right about the "Bean Counter" logic....

There are just some weird combination totals that were kept and it must be for some sort of "accounting" reason.

The have spent millions of $ in my area doing studies on what type of bridge they want to build to replace to current one going into Canada. That started 5 years ago and they still have not figured out what to do :Dou: I am sure a private contractor could have had the bridge built by now with alot less waste of tax payer money :af:

[BlueSky]

Mike & Marco,

If this is true, "L98 appears to be the GSX 455 non-stage motors", the only difference that I know of between these motors and ones put in regular 455 GS's was the pulleys. All GSX's, whether they were AC or non-AC still came with the AC pulleys and the corresponding Alt belt.

Maybe Buick coded them this way because they automatically knew which pulleys/belt to attach. They would have needed more information for the other motors, ie, AC vs non-AC.
Duane

I'm too lazy to dig through my stuff right now and I may be all wet but I think cars without AC and with the 'heavy-duty-cooling' option had the AC pulleys. Seems to me the (70 anyway) Stage package included heavy duty cooling. Also I believe 'H-D cooling' came standard on GSX cars, so there are your large pulleys. So the only GS455s in 1970, (in theory) with the small pulleys would be non-Stage, non-GSX, non-AC, non-H-D cooling cars......... :Do No: :Smarty: