1987 shelby Z [Archive] - Turbo Mopar Forums

Turbodave

07-24-2009, 06:06 PM

I have total 87 Shelby-Z production as 7,152 cars.

I don't have a breakdown by engine or transmission.

The intercooled TII and 555 5speed was standard, but the Shelby-Z could be equipped with an automatic. The Automatic trans cars were give the non-intercooled 2.2 Turbo engine which in 87 was the log intake suck-through version.

turbocars

07-24-2009, 07:04 PM

Thanks guys was hoping to get total for intercooled cars.

GLHNSLHT2

07-24-2009, 07:46 PM

87 Shelby z's were all sticks as far as I know
Q

BZZZT! As turbo dave noted the 87 could be had with an Auto which meant you got the 2.2 T1 suckthrough motor.

Thanks guys was hoping to get total for intercooled cars.

I'll start the count. I have 1 of each, a stick car and an Auto. They're both stick cars and intercooled now though :)

Aries_Turbo

07-24-2009, 07:56 PM

The intercooled TII and 555 5speed was standard, but the Shelby-Z could be equipped with an automatic if you were a gazer of men.

Fixed.....

turbokid

07-24-2009, 09:18 PM

My bad. Interesting info

BadAssPerformance

07-24-2009, 09:33 PM

How many were made with BadAss 2.4L's? :D

GLHNSLHT2

07-24-2009, 10:51 PM

zero.....

Aries_Turbo

07-24-2009, 11:41 PM

yeah zero. the one you have has a Gazer 2.4L in it lol. ;)

BadAssPerformance

07-24-2009, 11:48 PM

DoH! LOL...

Mopar318

07-24-2009, 11:54 PM

What does the Z stand for in the Shelby Z? Mines not a Z

BadAssPerformance

07-24-2009, 11:59 PM

TurboRon25

07-25-2009, 12:24 AM

It was Carroll's middle name... Carroll Z. Shelby The Z is an abbreviation cuz his middle name didnt fit on the stickers :D

Carroll ZaBadAssMoFo Shelby

Actually... the Shelby Z was after the Turbo Z of the 1G Daytona's... the Z? good question... last letter of the alphabet is the coolest? IROC-Z did the same thing...

I thought the IROC-Z stuff was to tie into the previous top o the line Cam-arrow, the Z-28. Like "We used to sell the Z-28, now that it's used for the IROC races we have the IROC-Z!".
Z is a cool letter. Z rated tires. 280Z, Z06, ZL1.
Never heard the official TurboZ explanation. ...so if you got a TBI car would it just be a "Z" or a "TBIZ"?

Ron

BadAssPerformance

07-25-2009, 12:34 AM

Yeah, Z must just be a cool letter... I remember telling Karl Morgan about my Shelby Z and the Turbo Z (when he was a Camaro guy before I converted him to the dark side) and he showed me a magazine with a 1979 Camaro Yenko Turbo Z .. a '79 Z28 ran 17's in the 1/4 but the Yenko Turbo Z (turboed carbed small block) ran 14's! LOL! ... So Dodge kinda stole it from that car maybe?

GLHNSLHT2

07-25-2009, 12:39 AM

TBI is just a daytona or Gaytona. The Turbo Z had all the ground f/x. They kept the Z in 87 but dropped the turbo and tipped their hat to Shelby with the ShelbyZ, in 89 they dropped the Z and it just became the Shelby.

turbocars

07-25-2009, 11:50 AM

One more question did all the shelby z with the intercooled motor come with the two piece
intake.

BadAssPerformance

07-25-2009, 11:54 AM

One more question did all the shelby z with the intercooled motor come with the two piece
intake.

Yes, but only in 1987. The '88 & '89 Intercooled cars came with a 1-pc

turbocars

07-25-2009, 12:02 PM

Thanks for the reply.

HemiShelby

08-11-2009, 05:22 AM

I just found an 87 Shelby Turbo Z with an automatic trans. So from what I have seen in here is that I got the crap end of the engines.

BadAssPerformance

08-11-2009, 08:31 AM

I just found an 87 Shelby Turbo Z with an automatic trans. So from what I have seen in here is that I got the crap end of the engines.

Factory 'log' T1, but an '87 is the easiest to do a top end swap on.

HemiShelby

08-11-2009, 01:58 PM

So are there recommendations you have to better the engine. I am getting ready to check it out as to what is wrong with the car. I have head gasket leak/cracked head. I have heard the heads weren't the best and its probably a head cracked. Let me know what you guys recommend.
Thanks alot

kuzman83

09-01-2009, 11:01 AM

ok dumb question here but in 1987 the shelby lancer had a "T2" ish, it was a T2 top end on a T1 bottom end. Now as far as the 1987 Daytona Z is concerned, is that a true T2 set up with the forged bottom end or is it the same as the shelby lancer?

Turbodave

09-01-2009, 11:16 AM

87 Shelby Z if equipped with a manual trans was a true TII, forged crank heavy rods, crossdrilled head/block etc...

blk86trbo

09-01-2009, 11:51 AM

ok dumb question here but in 1987 the shelby lancer had a "T2" ish, it was a T2 top end on a T1 bottom end.

Yeah Dave is correct, as far as I've learned the Shelby numbered cars built in 1987 were the only ones that had the TII top end and the weaker TI bottom end. All the factory TII stuff was built with the good stuff.

And the 2 piece intakes came on all the TII cars built in 1987 (Shelby and Factory), and one car in 1986, the GLHS...please correct me if I am mistaken.

Yeah, Z must just be a cool letter... I remember telling Karl Morgan about my Shelby Z

Is Karl related to Stefani Morgan? She's interesting :eyebrows:

BadAssPerformance

09-01-2009, 08:52 PM

Is Karl related to Stefani Morgan? She's interesting :eyebrows:

LOL, doubt it, would be cool tho!

WickedShelby88

09-07-2009, 11:44 AM

I thought Z had to do with the correlation with DOT's highest tire speed rating(149+mph). Granted almost none of the 80's Z cars could attain those speeds but it symbolized speed in general. Just a randow thought one of Chryslers designers might have had that was influential. After all the Turbo Z came before the IROC-Z :p

JohnnyIroc

09-07-2009, 12:05 PM

I just found an 87 Shelby Turbo Z with an automatic trans. So from what I have seen in here is that I got the crap end of the engines.
it sounds like there were not to many made in auto

I thought Z had to do with the correlation with DOT's highest tire speed rating(149+mph). Granted almost none of the 80's Z cars could attain those speeds but it symbolized speed in general. Just a randow thought one of Chryslers designers might have had that was influential. After all the Turbo Z came before the IROC-Z :p

i like JTs reason better haha

Yeah, Z must just be a cool letter...

turbokid

09-07-2009, 06:33 PM

Chevy actually made a turbo z camaro before the turbo z daytona came out.
Just an interesting tidbit

BadAssPerformance

09-07-2009, 09:58 PM

Chevy actually made a turbo z camaro before the turbo z daytona came out.
Just an interesting tidbit

Yep, see post 15... qouted here:

Yeah, Z must just be a cool letter... I remember telling Karl Morgan about my Shelby Z and the Turbo Z (when he was a Camaro guy before I converted him to the dark side) and he showed me a magazine with a 1979 Camaro Yenko Turbo Z .. a '79 Z28 ran 17's in the 1/4 but the Yenko Turbo Z (turboed carbed small block) ran 14's! LOL! ... So Dodge kinda stole it from that car maybe?

WickedShelby88

09-08-2009, 06:03 AM

You mean this thing? http://www.yenko.net/dealers/yenko.htm#81Camaros

The 84 turbo Z did come out with Gatorback tires but they were VR so I'm guessing V rated at the time so I guess that kills that theory.

A little off topic. Thought the first tallon or one of them is here. Built by an outfit similar to Yenko, Baldwin Motion, or Shelby even, I have never seen or heard of one anywhere else but this loan mag article I found in an old Hot Rod mag I had. Didn't know this article was on the net either. Lots of $$$$, but quite the beast back then for a domestic and since we had a lucrative partnership for the Saudi's when it came to oil it is only fitting.

http://thepontiactransampage.com/gallery/album06