1968 Camaro "Badmotorfinger" v2.2

[Vegas69]

I don't do open houses.

[CrossRamRich]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

It's Mike Honcho. Don't tell anybody but he "Spread his but cheeks for Playgirl magazine"

Rich, did you find any loose valves? How is the gear doing?

Thats beautiful!!!

Yes all the valves were around .002 to .003 off thier cold adjustment. .015 intake .017 exhaust. Gear is beautiful put a MSD holdown on, lost 6 degrees with the cheap one. Had a bent cheap fuel pump block off, caused leak at RTTC. Distributor cap, center electrode broken, replaced. New plugs, NGK, gapped at .045. Oil was DONE. Shifter still bein funky, workin on that more today and fixing a collecter gasket. Trying out Lucas octane boost, seems to be working. Now try and catch us!!! We need a good radiator catch can, any suggestions?

[Flash68]

Valves were consistently off by about .003 Rich said.

Distributor gear is in perfect shape. Some more gear material from the previous gear was on the magnetic plug and a little in the oil filter.

Oil was black and a little low (yes we are working on a DIPSTICK solution).

Timing was down to 30* which was a little worrisome. But Rich discovered we were still using a cheapy distributor hold down that was likely the culprit. Replaced with better MSD hold down.

Replaced old plugs (should have down before probably) with new NGK 7938's.

Old plugs showed a little detonation so timing was set to 36* and Rich threw some Lucas octane boost in the fuel cell so we will see how she runs tmrw at Marina.

EDIT: Rich, I guess we are pretty much on the same page!

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by CrossRamRich

Trying out Lucas octane boost, seems to be working.

Rich,

Might give Kemco 130 a try too: http://www.kemcooil.com/products.php?cId=4

I've had good luck with it in my bikes. Leaded with a nice racey aroma.

[CrossRamRich]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Rich,

Might give Kemco 130 a try too: http://www.kemcooil.com/products.php?cId=4

I've had good luck with it in my bikes. Leaded with a nice racey aroma.

Wow! Thanks for the tip. That stuff is the real deal. TEL, main ingredient, that'll work.

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by CrossRamRich

We need a good radiator catch can, any suggestions?

How much capacity would you prefer, Boss? I can source this.

[Vegas69]

Sounds like success.

[Flash68]

Had an eventful day yesterday at the Marina AutoX. Some awesome dedicated track cars there. American AutoX series is pretty serious stuff I found out firsthand. Didn't get to see Brian Hobaugh's red 64 Vette run as I had hoped... he was packing up when we got there.

Mary Pozzi and Brian both encouraged me to specifically come to these American AutoX events as they are big tracks made for bigger car. They were right. Very cool and difficult 2 lap course that resulted in 70 to 80+ second times.

I took 3 runs and of course spun out on 2 of them, but I feel I did okay all things considered. Traction was no where near what we saw at RTTC. The car just wouldn't stick and do what it did for me at El Toro. We had pretty good weather too. 60s and overcast most of the day.

Mary P took my car out for 3 laps after I was done, and I was stoked about this. I learned a ton from those 3 ride alongs. One that stood out was that I hit the brakes like a 9 year old girl. Man when she gets on the brakes she does it with conviction.

My GoPro was on the wrong setting for all my laps but I fixed it for Mary's final and best run here.



For some reason this vid wasn't as clear as past ones. You can't really view the course that well or get the affect of the car hitting the brakes so much harder than when I have driven. Huge difference.

The course also was a challenge for my car because we had to run in 2nd gear and it didn't get up into its powerband in any of the straights. And I wasn't interested (or was Mary) in take lap after lap screaming at 7000rpm all day. Some courses are great for certain cars, and others not. That's how it is.

Mary and Dave P talked with us awhile after and we discussed several things to take a look at one the car based on how it behaved. Thanks to the Pozzi's for their insight and ideas about my car. Pretty valuable info right there. and top secret...

Oh, and then I ran out of gas on the way home. Doh.

[tones2SS]

Very cool Dave. Learning from the best is good. Running out of gas on the way home,...not so good.
Have fun buddy.

[GregWeld]

Good write up Dave!

The Pozzi's are such sweethearts! So helpful and eager to share!


So - you need a quick change rear end --- get to the track - switch ratios and get that badmotorwhateverthehellitis bang the rev limiter.


Running out of gas! Priceless.


So my story on that.... just completed doing the EFI for the first time on the Nomad many years ago --- I'd put about 10 gal of gas in it -- dyno etc... get 'er done and park it for a couple weeks. Comes the weekend of GoodGuys show here - get up and get 'er washed up - and head out at O'dark thirty. Car goes 10 miles and starts bucking -- then runs fine - then bucks - hiccups - then runs fine. I'm thinking "crap!" Must be a wire on a header I didn't tuck away right etc.... Then she just gives up. No biggie - call a tow truck. A tiltbed rollup comes and gets me. Since I'm on the side of the freeway - we can't hear or talk. He buttons it all up and I jump in the cab. He asks me what's wrong with it.... and I say... I just did full new EFI blah blah blah but it felt just like you'd run out of gas. BINGO! Lightbulb comes on and I tell him to get off the next exit and go to the gas station. While it's up on the bed I put some gas in - hit the key - it fires off immediately... We back it off - I pay him the $175 and off I go to the show... YES I told all my buddies what I did - and anytime we head off somewhere - their first question to me is "do you have gas"?