Time Travel for gear heads , a nastalgic tale.

[ll____b0t____ll]

This going to be a long nastalgic story so I warn anyone upfront that only the most car crazy fools like myself
might want to wade through this post

"A CAM STORY" or "THE TALE OF THE RED WHITE AND BLUE 65 CHEVELLE" or "MY NEW ENGINE"

Well the first thing we need to do is jump in our time machines and head all the way back to the year 1968.
I know some people havent even been born yet "me either" but hey this is my Family's story and well thats where it begins.
So plug your toaster oven in and drop it in the bathtub or smoke 28LBs of bannana peels or well whatever way you
know of time travel ,split atoms , black holes, fly backwards around the earth , slingshot the sun ENGAGE!!!!!

Tensil, thats my Dads mom "Grandma" is in the market for a new car, well new to her anyway and off a car lot.
She and my Uncle Lee went to Montana to get one of them there grocery getters but having took along my Uncle Lee
he might have persuaded her to get one of them new camaro's or hey an SS nova back in 1968 wasnt all to expensive .
Whatever she got it was sure to be a chevrolet and something the boys could work and tune on.
The boys mind you had some tuning skill, you know the kind "hey lets drop that 427 big block in that 1963 nova, hey lets
cram a v8 down that vega, hey why not a 396 big block opel cadet on a 4 wheel drive frame.
So ya Grandma new the boys would be tinkering with whatever she got wether she liked it or not HEHE gotta love "Them Boys".

Well as it turns out a local Billings Montana Drag Racer had traded in the lot they went to a very special 1965 Chevelle SS.
No it wasnt the 396 that everyone talks about it was a 327 but the guy who baught it brand new had big plans for it.
It never hit the street in this guys hands it went right to a speed shop and got some good old school parts ,you know
long tube headers, a better cam , carb work , it didnt take much in those days to be on the strip.
And this guy won all kinds of loot and trophys with the car that became localy well known with its Red White and Blue paint job.
The fact it was blowing away cars like other big block chevelles and SS camaros right and left and vettes aswell added to the cars fame.

Well apon seeing it my Uncle Lee was feeling like a kid in a candy store and then the man fired it up..Thump Thump Thump..Thump!
It had so much lope to it that the open doors could be seen to almost dance to the rythmic engine tune.
Frankly I think Uncle Lee was sold at the paintjob but if not firing it up sealed the deal.
Now Im not sure to this day wether it was a hey mom thats the one or a please please mom or how many chores got thrown into the deal,
But Thump Thump Thump down the road they went in that chevelle.

LET THE STREET RACING BEGIN!
And it did my Dad and Ucle Lee raced the bajeebers out that car the way it was and stomped so much local muscle they had to go the state over just to get a race.
Mind you its the late 60's now early 70's and there are some nice cars to contend with.
My dads friend had a 65 ss chevelle himself and his had the 375HP 327 from a vette under the hood .....smoked him bad!
Big block chevelles ranging from 396-427-454 drag tuned ....smoked!
This car was amazing but a mystery as no one could understand why that 327 ran so darn hard.
Now I know what your thinking "Sounds like any other fishing story" right? Ya me too and Ide agree if it had come from anyone elses mouth
but my Dad and Uncle Lee.
Ive witnessed to many times when they talk about what they can build only to have others scoff and outright call them liars and seen them put up or shutup.
When it comes to chevrolets these Boys dont lie. Now ask them about a hunting or fishing trip and you might wanna bring a shovel cuz wooof!

Anyways back to the 327 , well it was tearing the tar out of muncies left and right and yes they raced and won still missing gears for a long time.
Until they decided to tear it down to once and for all solve the mystery, and a number of fello 327 owners who had been uterly burnt by the car so badly
couldnt wait to find out just what could be smoking the 350hp and 375hp 327's aswell as puffed up L88 427 AND LS6 454'S
As they tore it apart they did it in secret and expected to find some hidden tuning secret, some mysterious part or method grinding that could account
for the 327's 8,000+ all day RPM and bookoo power output.

Was it some new cylinder heads or special grinding technic? Nope some mildy ported and polished camel humps, certainly a decent head for the time but
that alone couldnt account for it.
As a matter of fact everything looked pretty mild in there from the pistons "which in those days a domed piston wasnt new as the gas sapported it fine",
to the Cam that was so noisy.
They never did find that mystery part but they wrote down every part # all the same including the Cam #.

Now fast forward some years and the boys had tried diferent combos and even that same cam in other engines ranging from a 350,373,383.400 still ran great but never
really producing the same result.
However every single time that Cam was pushed into 327 with the same combination of parts the same result was acheived.
I say every single time but lets be honest it was only one other time .
It wasnt the cam alone it was the Cam in that combo for that engine alone , the mystery was solved and soon this all became just good old memorys for the boys.

All right I hope your Robotussin or bunji cord time machine holds up one last time because we need to get back to the present.
I know I know we didnt even talk about Motion perfomance vegas or anyway....back to the year 2011.

So due to a vortexing problem caused by a pinhole in my oil pump ive spun a bearing on my 350 with less than 3,000 miles on it.
Its my daily driver my only vehicle and I love my 72 C-10 even though the only time we spend together lately is me chasing the naighbor kids away from playing on it
GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRR i hate other peoples kids or more the parents who sit inside all day while lil timmy plays power rangers where by for some reason
my truck gets to be "The Bad Guy".
Breath .. breath ... ok im fine realy

My engine needs rebuilt and my Dad says what are ya wanting to do with it?
Now being a car guy myself a say the classic line, "Well i think ide like to rebuild it but puff it up a bit" HAHAHA how many time we all said that right?
Anyway he says what 383 it or keep it a 350 or what?
I say well its to bad i dont have a 307 crank or ide just go with a 327 , mind you about this time it looked like the old man had an anurism he was smiling so hard.
He says I got something better than that , how about an actual large jernal 327 crank I been saving for almost 30 years?
I say sounds awsome what you want for it ? he says you let me build the engine exactly to the specs of the red white and blue chevelles 327 and its free.
Now Im caught off gaurd casue ive heard the storys about this engine for years and it takes some time for me to realize im getting it.
Turns out the Cam is a Crower Cam that they stopped making more than 25 years ago and Dad calls them and gives them the Cam specs and the guy their says
"OMG i remember that Cam " ya thats a running so and so.
He talks for almost 2 hours on the phone with my dad about this Cam and how its profile was somehow "Lost" in the old days and they tried recreating it numerouse times.
Never fully getting it correctly the same because they didnt have the information for whatever reason.
That is until now , do to my Fathers maticulouse parts # keeping skills and the information he had they are regrinding this Cam for me.
Honestly it sounded like Crower is as happy about it as I am.
Will they now be bringing this Cam back? I cant say ....ok well I could say but im not going to lol.

Now I know this my not sound like a big deal to many but to me this is what it means.
My Dad has faught a long battle with Cancer and multiple heart attacks and to be truthful this will most likely be the last engine he builds.
The engine he and his brother Lee kept so secret for all these years will soon be the engine in my 72.
When he dies I wont be getting any inheritance , I come from a poor family with a rich history of working hard for what we do have, so in all honesty
this 327 this memory this "legend to some" is all Ill have left soon.

And I gotta tell ya Him and I are chomping at the bit as the parts come in slowly hehehe we stared at pistons for 2 hours today and when the Cam comes...
im sure it will get fondled more than any peice of metal has a right to be


Anyway thanks for reading , I hope I didnt bore or depress you too much and if you like keep on eye on my build thread Project Morgan as it becomes Project Pheonix
and Ill get more info and pics up soon.

Good day!

P.S. none of those forms of time travel actualy work in fact some can kill you so please dont do any of them if you intend to travel through time.
Besides everyone knows if you want to time travel all you need is a speak and spell 3 paper clips and lots of duct tape

Edited , check down theres a Pic of the Chevelle