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1968 - Orphans / Re: 8N466273 Z/28 engine

« on: February 02, 2009, 01:39:18 PM »

Has this changed hands once already ? One place lists the sellers location as Canada and says the engine is complete & together with low miles and the Ebay ad says Michigan & shows it completely taken apart.

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Originality / Re: camaro 68 RS from antwerpen belgium.

« on: January 22, 2009, 03:35:45 AM »

They look like stock 67 Chrome valve covers to me. What's up with the rubber strip on the rear bumper ? Lots of strange things going on with this car. What's the story on these ? Were they assembled in Belgium from parts shipped over from here or what ?

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Restoration / Re: Looking for rear spoiler studs

« on: January 22, 2009, 01:35:50 AM »

 Sauron327  Thanks for the tip. I was wondering this same thing myself and when I bought a "kit" on Ebay awhile back all I got was some 1/4x20 pieces of threaded rod & a bag of nuts & washers. Not at all what I was looking for.

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General Discussion / Re: 67 Camaro base cp. 12 bolt posi

« on: January 22, 2009, 12:05:13 AM »

Ron I'm not sure if you're asking me or Mikey but Kurt & Bertfam have all of my info. If you need it I'll have to get back to you as soon as I shovel a path to my garage...

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General Discussion / Re: 67 Camaro base cp. 12 bolt posi

« on: January 21, 2009, 01:04:24 PM »

My 67 6 cylinder Powerglide car has a 12 bolt posi with 2.73 gears. No traction bar bracket.

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Originality / Re: another 2 piece rotor questions

« on: November 16, 2008, 03:58:28 AM »

As I stated in another post, my 54k mile 69 Z (with single piston calipers of course) had it's original 2 piece rotors on it that it was born with. I don't believe that when they went to the single piston calipers they changed to the one piece rotors. My car was an 04C built car. What do the experts say on this ?

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Originality / Re: two piece rotors

« on: November 16, 2008, 03:53:18 AM »

My 69 Z I used to own had 54k miles on it when I got it and had 1973 license plates on it. It had it's original 2 piece rotors still in place. It was an 04C built car

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General Discussion / Re: 400 block...

« on: November 15, 2008, 06:03:54 PM »

As an old circle track racer I came up with a combo that gives you the same quick revs due to a big bore & a short stroke you get from the 302 but with a bigger displacement. This combination was developed due to the 355 cubic inch limit we had in the class we were racing in at the time. With short track racing the race is won by the guy who can get the revs up the quickest coming out of the turns while building power all the way down the straights. We used a 400 block with a 327 large journal crank using the same bearing spacers they make for putting 350 cranks in 400 blocks. 5.7 rods with custom made pistons. Comes out to roughly 348 cubic inches with a standard bore and slightly over 350 with a .030 bore.  We were using forged steel cranks from 68 Vette motors because they were still available new from GM back then but any 327-307 large journal crank would work.  This may sound like alot of work & extra expense to go through to build a roughly 350 CID engine but the difference between these & a normal 350 is like night & day... We never told our competition what we were doing different and they never figured it out..

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General Discussion / Re: What would cause a heck of a back fire like this???

« on: November 15, 2008, 02:30:43 PM »

Back in my young & foolish days we used to do this stuff on purpose. Only works with std transmissions of course. While driving down the road (especially fun under bridges and in tunnels) shut key off while still in gear & moving, pump the crap out of the gas pedal & then turn the key back on... Blew the mufflers completely off a 69 Mustang doing this once. Created quite a mess with having the mufflers & tailpipes wrapped around the rear axle & all....