FACTORY FACTS! CHEVROLET SERVICE NEWS

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Fuel Injection was first offered as a factory option for the 1957 Corvette model year. 1957 saw the widest range of fuel injection choices by option numbers 579A, 579B, 579C and 579E. Then model years 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961 offered only two choices each.

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…Starting with the 1962 model year and lasting through the last year of “Ram-Jet” fuel injection in 1965, one choice was offered for each year. 1962 and 1963 fuel injection was at 360 H.P. For 1964 and 1965 Corvette model years, the fuel injection option RPO L-84 was at 375 H.P. If you are one of the lucky owners of a 1963 F.I. Corvette, please note the starting information in this issue of Chevrolet Service News as the information in the original owners manual for 1963 is INCORRECT!!
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This information on 1968 camshaft problems comes from an engineering service letter between different departments of Chevrolet in January 1968. It notes that factory mixups happen and what to look for when camshaft problems occur. These mixups over the years on Corvettes were not confined to erroneous problems. In 1967 for a short time there was a shortage of small block hoods and ’some’ small block Corvettes left the St. Louis plant with big block hoods to keep production going on the line. If any of our readers know of other “mixups”, please let VETTE VUES know!!
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