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Title: The Beginning Post by: Dan Mazur on May 15, 2010, 02:57:49 am I remember having taken this photo in 1979. I had just spent over $10,000.00 rebuilding the engine in my 1971 Chevelle SS 454.
My neighbor Paul, had recently purchased this Standard Early Model painted and lowered it. His total cost was under $1,000.00. I remember driving past this car daily and was blown away by how radical the stance was! My comment was "It's just a stupid bug........but it looks outrageous! It was even more fun cruising in it! Within one year of this photo, I purchased my '69 Sun Roof and it's all history! On this day, Paul bolted on a set of Fuchs Alloys and wanted a photo of his car. It was complete and I had to have one!! (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Dinger_Dan/Thebeginning-1.jpg) Title: Re: The Beginning Post by: Worm on May 15, 2010, 03:44:16 am SS 454 with Cowl Induction!!!!! Nice car (both of em'). $10K on the 454 engine? Wow. Did you ever run it at OCIR Dan? How about some ET's eh?
Title: Re: The Beginning Post by: Rick Meredith on May 15, 2010, 04:55:44 am Great pic Dan!
Title: Re: The Beginning Post by: Dan Mazur on May 15, 2010, 18:12:09 pm SS 454 with Cowl Induction!!!!! Nice car (both of em'). $10K on the 454 engine? Wow. Did you ever run it at OCIR Dan? How about some ET's eh? No Et's. Never ran it on the track. I just wanted a "drag race ready" engine on the street. 454 bored .30 over. All TRW inside parts. Smog Engine, LS-5. Two bolt mains. It was a sleeper. Edelbrock Torker Manifold, that matched seriously ported heads. The runners were ported and flowed straight into the intake ports. 12.75 to 1 pistons that had to be cut down for street compression. Engle custom cam. Brand new Chevrolet LS-7 Forged Crank & Rods. Balanced & Blueprinted. That's all I can remember. It twisted the ladder bars and the distributor launched weekly. For a crappy Two Bolt Main engine, it revved and pulled well past 8.5! I could wind it to over 50 mph in first gear. I remember racing my friend who had a small block Chevelle. I had him by several car lengths in first gear. When I told him that, he admitted he had shifted through third! Sad thing, it was a Numbers Matching car but, I was young and stupid. Traded the car for a Kawasaki Z1-R after a friend borrowed it, launched the distributor and spun the rod caps blue! That was the end of oil pressure! Tod Fuller has some memories of my Chevelle, ask him sometime! Title: Re: The Beginning Post by: LuftsickTero on May 15, 2010, 20:08:13 pm (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u134/Dinger_Dan/Thebeginning-1.jpg) Cool photo and awesome cars, both of them 8) Title: Re: The Beginning Post by: Nico86 on May 15, 2010, 21:19:53 pm Nice cars !
Title: Re: The Beginning Post by: DKK TOD on May 15, 2010, 23:15:55 pm 8) By that time,I already had a BB396 67 Chevelle and 71 V8 Vega wagen and when I took this rat for a ride, I almost soiled myself :o !! A big block that pulled hard past 8000rpm.(making power/got what he paid for!!)Also had a M22 4 speed,just plain bad ass/chick magnet. ;D
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