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The Purple Camaro
- Thread starter Bent77
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When I was in high school and college I used to take paint thinner and remove the white Hoosier lettering so it was less obvious I had sticky tires.
You should definitely hook with those.
You should definitely hook with those.
I thought you found a clutch pedal?
Did you have fun? That's most important!
Look at it this way, you have room to go faster!
Look at it this way, you have room to go faster!
Had fun. Lights were good. All the expensive cars with turbos we’re trying to figure out how slomaro was whipping their ass for the first chunk of the track. Apparently that’s new for them
Once I find the issue, it’ll be more fun for me
Once I find the issue, it’ll be more fun for me
Well we had to clean it up to ride in Mrs. Bent's car!!
Didn't need her to get cranky at both of us for putting dirty stuff in her Lexus!
Having lunch with you two was great!
Didn't need her to get cranky at both of us for putting dirty stuff in her Lexus!
Having lunch with you two was great!
Plan is some more shop time for the sloMaro. It got shuffled to the back row. I’ll pull the driver side header, collector, and the pipe back to the muffler first
Here’s the issues with the exhaust:
Headers are the competition Hookers built to the chassis by Mike Lupfer, long time Denver chassis guru. They fit awesome, even left us room to add a man pedal
But they are made for a Gen1 SBC
Crate engine is a zz5, vortec pattern
Reversion here
I knew this when I dropped the engine in. We didn’t want to dump the headers.
Still dont
Plan will be to carefully modify them to push them up without ruining the jet coating
2nd problem. Looks like exhaust dude slipped the 3” pipe into the collector, not flush. Reversion here
Next problem is the muffler. It’s 2.5”
But the exhaust dude just welded the larger pipe to the case over the inlet.
Reversion here
2.5” outlet
Once these are resolved, I’ll look to set it up to swap to a different dizzy at the track. So I’ll make wires and such, everything ready to quick swap. Make a few passes, change and test
Still convinced it can get to the low side of 13s
All of this work will be done prior to the 4 speed. I want all of the bugs worked out on a known consistent platform, before I make a major change
Here’s the issues with the exhaust:
Headers are the competition Hookers built to the chassis by Mike Lupfer, long time Denver chassis guru. They fit awesome, even left us room to add a man pedal
But they are made for a Gen1 SBC
Crate engine is a zz5, vortec pattern
Reversion here
I knew this when I dropped the engine in. We didn’t want to dump the headers.
Still dont
Plan will be to carefully modify them to push them up without ruining the jet coating
2nd problem. Looks like exhaust dude slipped the 3” pipe into the collector, not flush. Reversion here
Next problem is the muffler. It’s 2.5”
But the exhaust dude just welded the larger pipe to the case over the inlet.
Reversion here
2.5” outlet
Once these are resolved, I’ll look to set it up to swap to a different dizzy at the track. So I’ll make wires and such, everything ready to quick swap. Make a few passes, change and test
Still convinced it can get to the low side of 13s
All of this work will be done prior to the 4 speed. I want all of the bugs worked out on a known consistent platform, before I make a major change
Getting rid of restrictions in the exhaust is definitely a good step, I look forward to seeing the results. I had dual 2.5 on my SBC regal back in the day, uncorking the header to the 3" collector would pick up over 2 tenths every time.
But you can't run open header because the lack of back pressure will make you lose power!!
Please note the sarcasm.
Please note the sarcasm.
At least it was sealed??
If you had 781 heads a FelPro Performance 1411 gasket would fit really good.
