1969 camaro hood

[HandOverFist]

As usual, it isnt going to be NHRA nitpicking details such as spoilers as much as your fellow racers...likely someone with a grudge or just looking to monkee wrench a competitor. If something is clearly illegal and a competitor demands attention NHRA has no other recourse but to address it. Btw, the spoiler was not mandatory on Z-cars until late production models...early models had the option and it might have been the narrower "68 spoiler if installed.

[Billy Nees]

SSDiv6, you have a P.M.

[Crew Chief]

Its not just the aluminum Police intake on the 67 Mustang. I checked the specs and found that the larger 428 Cobra Jet Holley is allowed. Thats quite a jump from the original 600 CFM.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by 69Cobra

What I'm saying is if that engine/hp combo didn't have the option for a cowl hood then how can you run it? With that being said I think its funny how pretty much every 67-69 F-body stocker does not run a rear wing yet 95% of the ones that were ever on the street had them. I'm not a F-body guru and I'm sure the reason they get away with that is GM had the rear wings as an option but was that rear wing an option on cars that had Cowl hoods or was it part of the package?

The spoilers were options.

[HandOverFist]

Spoilers (D80): The spoiler option was not available in 1967 on any Camaro. It became available as an option on all cars (except those with a rear antenna) in 68-69. It was not mandatory on any car, except for the 69 pace car replicas and later 69 Z's. The narrower 68 spoiler was used on the 69 Camaro up to January - March of 69, when the wider 69 spoiler was phased in. One of the torsion bars on an original spoiler equipped car will be of larger diameter to compensate for the weight of the spoiler. The front center of the 69 subframe will have a drilled hole to mount the center brace of the front spoiler.

Cowl hood (ZL2): The cowl hood was an option on SS and Z28 models in 1969 and was included on all COPO's and Pace Cars. It was introduced midyear 69. #1 ZL1, built 12E at Norwood is one of the first Camaros to have a factory ZL2 hood. A late December LOS-built Z28 with ZL2 has also been documented.
The ZL2 option included a solenoid and flapper in the hood. The wiring for the solenoid was routed through a special hole in firewall above the fuseblock. Only 10,026 cars received cowl hoods in 69 and about half of those went to COPO's and Pace Cars, meaning there were only 5,000 Z28's and SS's (out of about 20,000 Z28's and 30,000 non-Pacer SS's) that received the cowl hood.