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I hate to say this but, ive been a subscriber to super chevy for a long time. And id like to see more articls set up like mustangs and fast fords. We all need to see some coverage on real world turbo installs. I am dihard about chevy and am planning on building a real world. prostreet s10 which is done. but the motor is going to be a 355 with a t-88 turbonetics turbo, newgen wastegate, godzilla bov, procharger intercooler, and procharger, carb bonnet, and carb shop blowthrough carb. The articals about turbos were great, but now its time to show some true realworld installs. that would be sweet. and i love my susbscription to super chevy. keep up the good work.

welcome to lateral-g henry, glad you signed up and started some posting........

Scott, cograt's man, simply amazing how much publicity your site has recieved. A+ job friend....... :hail:

Give Jim his very own column!!!!

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:lateral: = great people with great cars...

how about a " lateral-g section"??? scott???

you could get many features cars from this site..
you could also follow a build of one of the top quality cars on this site .
im sure scott would have a suggestion on what car to follow
it could be a couple of pages dedicated to protouring cars from this site...

hey gotta promote this great site ...

radrambler

Hey, don't be giving away all my feature cars!!! :willy:

lol.. I really enjoy reading CHP.. best part is that I get it for free now :)

Welcome to the forum.

welcome :)
rick kirkindall

Steevo, I was serious for my designated one time this year. It would be a joke column at best. Thanks for the job recomendation. :thumbsup:

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Hey Henry -
Another request for magazine content.
People have said that they like installment articles.
Since many people contemplate and upgrade in horsepower as well as suspension mods, an article that takes a decent small block bottom end, and then each month tests it with (on pump gas):
1.) Roots Blower
2.) Screw Type Blower
3.) Centrifugal Blower (w & w/o intercooler)
4.) Single Turbo (w & w/o intercooler)
5.) Twin Turbo (w & w/o intercooler)

In each case shoot for approximately the same boost level and then compare the torque curves and horsepower curves. Give us the cost of each power adder, then we would have a real world comparison in $ per hp. If you included information such as added weight to front end, complexity of installation, lists of suppliers that would be cool. You could do the same series with a big block and compare. Kind of like an internal engine master's challenge. Then at the end, award the engine of choice to the winner of the long haul mileage contest posted in my first message.


I intentionally did not add Nitrous to this list, because it is not a true apples to apples comparison and most magazines already have it covered well.

Just another idea to throw on your pile. :cool:

Tanx,
-Bruce

Hi Henry, I was talking to Terry @Sema about features in general and the kind of car feature content that really appeals to me... the buildup series of his 68 Vert is right on the money, also take a look at the structure of the article in Car Craft awhile back about Jeff Trush's car "Reality Resto".

Of course, not every car has as great of a "back story" as Jeff's, but the appeal of that style of article is 100 times stronger than the typical basic template-style writeup and "rattle off the parts list" that has been pretty much standard fare since the 60s.

I want to see more car features with before / during construction photos, more history about how the owner came to have the car, tales of things that didn't come off as planned, things that came off better than expected, etc. If a potential feature car doesn't have any back story, and not much detail about how it came to be what it is currently and the experiences and people behind that...then maybe it should be passed over for something else.

Just my $.02 - Rob