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!