67 Camaro "The Victim"

[cjfirstgen]

Originally Posted by Spiffav8

It’s a 2.66... same as the old one. It’s worked well and I didn’t feel any need to change it. What are you running?

2.29 but had 6th gear swapped for a .58 among some other internal upgrades so it can still run in the low 2k rpm's 70-80 mph with 3.73 gears. Gearing is setup exactly like the 6th gen ZL1 basically. if the motor isn't happy with 3.73's I may go 3.90.

[Spiffav8]

Originally Posted by cjfirstgen

2.29 but had 6th gear swapped for a .58 among some other internal upgrades so it can still run in the low 2k rpm's 70-80 mph with 3.73 gears. Gearing is setup exactly like the 6th gen ZL1 basically. if the motor isn't happy with 3.73's I may go 3.90.

Smart combo and approach. 3.73's should work, let me know what you think once you've run it for awhile. Making a lot of notes for my next build.

[Steve68]

Curtis,

do you have a picture of the engine vs firewall clearance?? I looked at page 107, hard to see, you have any pics showing clearance or from memory, thanks

[Spiffav8]

Originally Posted by Steve68

Curtis,

do you have a picture of the engine vs firewall clearance?? I looked at page 107, hard to see, you have any pics showing clearance or from memory, thanks

Steve.. Just looked through 1224 photos of the car on my IPad and the ones on page 107 are probably the best of the lot. Everything being black make it all kinda blend. I’ll look on my LapTop this weekend and see if there’s something better. I’d guess it’s roughly 1.5”-ish. Sorry I can’t take a better pic for you at the moment.

[Steve68]

No problem,

Mines closer than that, I need to move the mounting tubes forward, lucky I know a great welder!

[Spiffav8]

Dropped an Airplane off at WA Pane field for some heavy maintenance on Monday. Rather than jumping on the first commercial flight home, I grabbed a rental and headed down to Christ Holstrom Concepts. Got a tour of the shop, meet more of the crew and a detailed briefing on all that's been addressed on my car. Adrianne Weld showed up in the 40 along with Basher as did my buddy Tom who lives in the local area. The weather was awesome so we headed out for a bit of fun. Fist stop was Griots Garage and then over to AME for few. It was a fantastic day for a shake down run! There's not a lot of smooth, flat road there, but we managed to find a section that allowed me to hit 115 mph and check the vibration issue (which is gone).





The new T56 Magnum-F shifts super smooth and I was surprised at the reduced throw. Getting into reverse takes a bit more muscle, but it's not as long of a stretch. Very pleased.

The new accessory drive from Holley made a huge improvement on the over all look under the hood, but it also made other not so great looking items stand out. I decided to make a few more changes to address that and over all it's an improvement. Perfect... no, but it doesn't suck by any means. Yeah.... I'm OCD.

Here's a BEFORE pic. It's a decent setup, but the more I looked at it, the more it reminded me of Tow Mirrors on an F-350.



The new Mid Mount Setup and routing of the AC hoses was an improvement, but things seemed cluttered to me.



I pushed the EASY button and bought valve covers and billet fuel rails from Holley and swapped the brake master for a black one. CHC added the stainless hardware, made up the cross over and cleaned up the wiring a little. Should have gone this route in the first place. That white plug is being swapped out FYI.



I have been very impressed with the level of customer service from CHC and plan to build another car with them. The quality of work is 100% and everything has been completed ahead of schedule.

The car is being picked up on 4/15 which means it will arrive just in time for LS Fest. After that it'll be photos and

[cjfirstgen]

Nice improvement. Much cleaner.

[ScotI]

I get a lot of flack when I mention my dislike for most of the more 'budget friendly' accessory set-ups out & available. That "Tow mirrors on an F-350" is an accurate description IMHO....

The Holley stuff looks clean. Nice updates!

[214Chevy]

I'm loving the new look. It was nice before, but this is so much more becoming of the engine bay.

[camcojb]

Very nice improvements Curtis.