American Family of "MANIAC" Brand Ambassadors, Gearheads forever, keeping recorded moments in time to remind the patriarch, the family and the fans how precious life is in the moment! 1st Gen Camaros and Monte Carlos are the favorites, along with Jesus and drag racing!!! Attempting to create a brand,,, MANIAC JOHNSON MOTORSPORTS in the God fearin' parts of Appalachian Tennessee
You thought right of course,,, I'm always planting seeds for our 18 degree MAYHEM 421 and 434 Mighty Mouse combos,,,, the engine size is on the license plate. Bill Mitchell, Shafiroff and Blueprint all make 454 Small Blocks, but we have the 18 degree induction package to make it FLY!!!
I'm on my daughter's RU-vid. A friend of mine races sprint cars. I once asked him why his guages were crooked. He told me once the engine is at operating temp and is racing all the needles of the guages point straight up. When you're racing you don't have time to read the guages. You just take a quick glance. If all the needles are pointing straight up everything is fine. Just a friendly suggestion because it looks like you have a lot of time and money in your car.
Thanks Vince, this Camaro has been the charity clown car so to speak, had it now for over 20 years and still working on it today. She originally was a 6cyl low option dud. Been single carb 350, tunnel rammed 355, now 6-71 Weiand blown 377 with Edelbrock heads and 6.250" long Scat rods.
Passed by a mini-van. Really? That's the tune of a supercharger singing? Yeah, real maniac there buddy. Just a little embarrassed for you. BTW, did you actually even run a belt to it?
My 516 made similar power,actually a shade more but I think i made the wrong cam choice. Actual compression is 10.88 after we angle milled a bunch off the heads, but it does not like pure pump gas. It needs a blend even at 32deg total timing. The cam is 714/714 lift, 252/258@.050, on a 110. I personally think it needs more duration.
I'd be curious to know what the cranking compression is when engine is warm. Hard to understand why your combo wants blended fuel at 32 degrees. Could be on the edge of lean with oxygenated pump gas containing 10% ethanol. Do you have a compression tester?
Going up hill... It is all load related, the converter is a 10" TCI, "3,400 stall" with a 3.08 gear on a 26.8" tire. At max vacuum or lightest load (flat ground going 75mph) the stall tightens and will level out. This is Johnson CIty Tennessee, we got mountains everywhere around here, thank God!!!
I have a hood, cut, fitted, pinned and painted fiberglass 2" cowl, cuts the blower pulley in half, revealing the perfect belt cleavage for all to ogle. What I don't have is a high quality camera... Holler
