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Originally Posted by 71 Ventura II

Oh yeah!!! LOL

1. Met a guy at the track w/1979 Z28 who "Could Not" get past a 16.50 ET!!! I verified he had a good combo of parts i.e. cammed engine, good heads, ignition, stall, 3.42 gears, and sticky tires. I ask, what the tune up was ie timing? "He said we got the timing dead on it starts everytime"!!! I asked him about tuning the Holley carb, "Yeah she seems to be pretty close, we weren't sure wich side of the carb was AIR and which was FUEL at first"!?!? I noticed the rockers were a bit noisy, he explained "We set the lash at .030 while the engine was running." (Very Strange adjustment for a Comp 268 hydraulic cam. LOL) I gave him insrtuctions on how to check and set his timing with a "light", how to properly adjust the valves, and how the air/fuel screws work on a Holley. He later that Summer ran mid 13's!!! LOL I had to help the fellow out!!!

A good friend of mines dad swears he owned a 1968 Camaro 327 with a 4 barrel and dual exhaust that ran *8 SECOND* quarter miles back in the day! ??? He said the key was having a POSI rearend..... ??? No amount of logic could put a dent in the memory he had of that old Camaro. I just let him continue to dream!!!

Your friends dad may have had the first guy you mentioned adjust his hydraulic lifters to .030 with the engine running to get that kind of time out of it LOL!