OK so I must have been sleeping or staring at the achitecture of the Chrysler building when Rockefeller came up in history, but I remember the signs


and this is where I went estray. Didn't realize long before that the were part of the same conglomerate. Way to keep me on my toes, BTW Exxon/Mobil isn't a monopoly, according to Fortune .... BP is still bigger (#2) but Exxon/Mobil (#3) is more proffitible Also Shell (#4) Total (#10) round out the top 10.

LT5? the 89-95 ZR-1 engine has NOTHING in common with anything from the 1950s, its not even technically a Chevy engine and shares nothing with the architure of the SBC.

The LT5 was an aluminum creation of Lotus (at the time owned by GM), built by Mercury Marine... ... I will conceded that since the LT-5 was a 32 valve DOHC engine ... 16 intake runners would make sence.

Now where is this 16 port SBC intake from the 1950s? Perhaps you are thinking of Zora Arkus Duntov's experimental DOHC SBCs he was hoping would be used competitively in the Grand Sport Corvettes of 1963-1967 that raced Le Mans ... these engines not only didn't see use competitively, they were certainly not availible to the public ... in fact I had read an old old copy of Hot Rod (no I do not have a copy to scan), these engines weren't even seen by the public till 1975 (Zora's retirement). Again even if my assumption is correct, they have no commonality to a LT-5

Need to make a couple of corrections.


I inadvertently used the name Offenhauser above, I should have used the name Weiand in it's place. Fortunately the name makes no difference, as the description (such as it is) is accurate.