[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

My preference is earlier.

My favorite corvettes are "56 - '62 ('62 being my absolute favorite).
Mustangs - '64 - '66.
GTO - '64 - '65 (mine was a '65 with Tri-Power)
442 - '64 - '65
Chevelle '64 - '67

All mostly for body style - back then we 'tricked' our own engines, trannys, rear ends, suspension, etc.

My '65 Chevelle started as a stripped 300 with a tiny 194 c.i.d. six but I built a 4-bolt 350", bored it and mounted an Edelbrock 4bbl manifold with a Holley 750 CFM carb, 2.02" heads were too expensive so I bought a set of 1.94" heads (big difference, right?) 350 HP cam, headers, reworked distributor with a somewhat radical advance curve... It was a very fun car but the 750 Holley was too big for it so I dropped to a 650 CFM Holley and it ran even better. Suspension was all replaced with much thicker stabilizer bars, progressive front springs and the thickest stock El Camino rear springs I could get. Shocks were heavy duty on front and adjustable on the rear. That car was a real screamer and handled like it was on tracks.

The only thing I did to my GTO was to pull the heads and have the machine shop put threaded rocker studs in it 'cause I kept pulling them by revving too high. After the new threaded rocker studs I had problems with pumping out the lifters so I put a new cam in it with solids. That gave me the incentive to replace the flywheel with an aluminum one. Revs were very touchy then. Response to the accelerator was immediate!!




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