67 Camaro Build

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Originally Posted by rgunlock

That's a monster! Bet you were at least a little nervous the first time he took it up to 6K. I know I would have been. I'm excited for you. That's going to be so much fun in that Camaro!

Thanks Rick, I was a little anxious at first but Fastlane just killed it, those guys are the best. Hoping to have as much fun as this old guy is in his V-Gate equipped Mustang, check out the grin on that man’s face! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8X1sld3zeAk

Originally Posted by mongocanfly

Man..that's killer..!!!!

Thanks Greg! It's a really big motorvator to get our Camaro done.



It took just over 19 months of work, parts acquisition, machine work, assembly, and finally the break-in and dyno tune. Here’s the now truly “Good to go!” 511 back home all mummified from the trip. Had some wet weather for the ride home so Mark gave me a hand shrink wrapping and weatherproofing.

If you didn’t catch it in the final video here’s the dyno printout. Horsepower is just shy of 575 @ 5800 and torque is 590 @ 4600 on non-ethanol 91 pump gas. Yes, triple bonus points for naturally aspirated, pump gas and doing it with the old L-88 style parts. I’m very pleased, should make a reliable and fun street engine for the Camaro.

Ha, anymore powah and we might’ve had to start rethinking our transmission choice. I’ve heard and run across comments (link) on this cam grind saying It’ll show no mercy to manual transmissions. In fact, it is starting to get close to the recommended max of what our trans can hold (builder Paul Cangialosi when asked said it would do 650 ft-lbs). I’m sure it’ll be fine since this is a street car and it’s rarely going to hook up well enough to be a problem.

https://www.claysmithcams.com/hr-920...rpm-5800-6200/