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Originally Posted by 214Chevelle
Do you have a 2 gas tanks? To me, it looks like shots of both sides of the car.
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Good eye! I've been thinking that I want this car to be really street friendly, as in, something that is comfortable, safe, and reliable enough to drive to events a few thousand miles away. I also want the car to be a fun driver's car on the track. In order to keep the reliability and streetability I want, I'm not going too radical on the engine. There are manifolds that raise peak power up to 8200rpm, there are larger throttle bodies and there are nasty cams that build much better power in the upper rpm ranges, but get rid of variable valve timing. I don't want to go in that direction, since I want to preserve the most useable amount of low to mid torque and get the best response out of the engine that I can. To that end, I'm sticking to basic items like long tube headers, a little additional port work on the heads and good intake and tune using the factory engine management system. One of the good things about the factory harness is that I should be able to plug in a hand held tuner to the computer, and be able to change tunes in under a minute. See where I'm going with the two fuel fillers.
If the engine is grossly lacking everything that makes it really fast, I can always pull it out in a couple years to sleeve the block, bore it out, and toss in super light rotating assembly with a billet crank and better rods and pistons.
