1968 Camaro "Badmotorfinger" v2.2

[ProdigyCustoms]

Originally Posted by Flash68

Thanks Frank. Yeah it does rev quite nicely altho I haven't really gotten into that hard yet. The shop that dyno'd it shut it down at 6500 and the curve was still heading up, so with that cam I am guessing it peaks close to 6800-7000? Was that your experience?

Easy. In my street racer I have a 271 / 279 @ .050 in my 6" rod 404CI and I always shift it at 6800 on and it goes out the back door at 125MPH at 6400 RPMs on motor passes and it goes out the back door at 7400 on nitrous passes and it never lays down.

You have a much better stroke / bore ratio for RPMs and I ASSUME it is a 6" rod motor which would make the rod ratio killer to. I would bet 6800 to 7000 is a good shift point for you.

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by ProdigyCustoms

Easy. In my street racer I have a 271 / 279 @ .050 in my 6" rod 404CI and I always shift it at 6800 on and it goes out the back door at 125MPH at 6400 RPMs on motor passes and it goes out the back door at 7400 on nitrous passes and it never lays down.

You have a much better stroke / bore ratio for RPMs and I ASSUME it is a 6" rod motor which would make the rod ratio killer to. I would bet 6800 to 7000 is a good shift point for you.

Yeah thats screamin. Im not sure yet what the rod length is.. I got 3 big envelopes of receipts and paperwork I still need to go through that came with the car.

But yesterday I just wanted to get the car home safely. I'll rev that sucker up here soon and see how it goes. It does have a high rev kit on it I believe. We'll know soon enough.

[6D9]

Congrats Dave!!! Im so stoked you got it. Where gonna have to get together soon for sure. Still gonna try and hit the strip with us on Oct 16th?? I hope so! Sucker should flat rip!

I totally agree about the cam......thats a big ol sucker for a nice street car. Something in the 240 ish at .050 would be alot more street friendly and still run super hard.

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by 6D9

Congrats Dave!!! Im so stoked you got it. Where gonna have to get together soon for sure. Still gonna try and hit the strip with us on Oct 16th?? I hope so! Sucker should flat rip!

I totally agree about the cam......thats a big ol sucker for a nice street car. Something in the 240 ish at .050 would be alot more street friendly and still run super hard.

Thank you Ron. Yes definitely.. been wanting to check out your car too. Will have to see on the drag day on the 16th... would like to come.

Yeah I think the cam is matched well for the motor but not so much for street driving and cruising. The cam is Vertigo was around 240/250 @ .050 and it was pretty easy to cruise I thought.

[6D9]

Cool keep me posted!

[Tom.A]

Congrats Flash That did not take long at all. I remember seeing the car posted before and I liked it. Keep us posted

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by tom_a

Congrats Flash That did not take long at all. I remember seeing the car posted before and I liked it. Keep us posted

Thank you Tom! Yeah it seemed a while, but it wasn't bad. I guess it seemed like forever just cuz I never really got to enjoy the first one and put a lot of miles on it.

This one will get the miles.