Re: 1980 Trans-am 350 turbo?

On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 4:06:01 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi there, my dad has a 1980 Trans Am Indy pace car edition that=E2=80=99s=
 all original with the turbo 301 and auto. We were talking about restoring =
the motor on it and he wanted to do a 350 with the turbo and a manual from =
a race car and get GM to recognize it as an official car. I couldn=E2=80=99=
t find any information about a factory trans am with that setup but he trie=
d to contact GM about it in the 80=E2=80=99s and they never replied. Does a=
nyone know any information about a Trans-am from that was used in a race se=
ries with a turbocharged 350 and a manual?=20
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> Thanks
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> Giancarlo

No.  Never heard of such a car.  The only engines available in a Trans Am i=
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1980 were the Pontiac 301 and Chevrolet 305 for some strict emission and hi=
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altitude areas.  The Pontiac 350 was long out of production.  All of them w=
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backed by an automatic transmission that model year.

GM doesn't care about something they built in 1980.  Chances are they don't=
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even have records of it even being made by them anymore.

-Dennis