[goatwgn]

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!

[Buckle]

A guy at work has boasted about "building" a 454 chevy many years back, and just how bad this thing ran in his 72 Lemans that he no longer has. Goes on and on about building the whole car, it scared people because when he would launch it all you could see was sky, pull the front wheels off the ground. This same guy refers to my 72 2 door Grandville I just bought from California, super clean and original car, dash isn't even cracked, nice nice, he refers to it as my "hooptie" when he saw me get out of it in the parking lot here at work. Anyway, later I heard him slip to another guy that this monster 454 that he used to have was a stock motor that he installed a cam in. Nuff said.
Buckle