Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 1, Issue 2 February 2021 i All Chevy Performance

Vehicle: “Masq Supernova” Owner: Joe Masquelier When Joe Masquelier contacted me about drawing up his 1966 Nova project, I could tell that he had a solid vision already in his mind of what the car should be. The elements were all there and Joe was kind enough to let me link them together with some interesting design elements. We started out by designing a custom hex-pattern grille insert and then moved around to the front fenders. A batch of front wheelwell vents were presented and we settled on a clean-looking carbon element that would be a custom layup. Sheetmetal hood vents, SPA Technique mirrors, and a custom rear spoiler round out the exterior. Inside the cockpit, we designed a simple dash that center-mounts the Holley digital display. Custom-designed door panels…

As a car-crazed kid growing up in Northern New Jersey, young Mike Lagomarsino developed a perpetual passion for GM’s iconic 1957 Chevy. “From the beginning 1957s were always my favorite car,” Mike says. “I had models and HO cars everywhere—all of them were 1957s. When I got older, Popular Hot Rodding magazine’s Project X was my favorite feature. I read and studied every article with the intent to one day build an ‘X’ of my own.” So, at age 15 Mike got his hands on his first 1957—a project car that basically needed everything under the sun just to get it out on the street. Holding him back as well was the fact that he was still a few years short of legal driving age in New Jersey. “That Chevy…

If we had to pick one Holley carburetor to represent the entire history of Holley carburetors, we would choose the 3310. It is the ubiquitous carburetor. Originally created as a 780-cfm vacuum secondary, four-barrel, original-equipment carburetor on many GM big-block engines, this carb has evolved into the go-to standard for street performance. This carburetor became so in demand that Holley quickly began selling this carburetor first as a 4150 style, which includes a secondary metering block. Over the years, to attract an even broader clientele, the 0-3310 was converted to the 4160 version, meaning the secondary metering block was replaced with a metering plate but still with the same metering characteristics. Along the way, its rating slipped slightly to 750 cfm. There were a few other changes, but the demand…

The old Hollywood adage was “you can’t be too rich or too thin.” While Hollywood prefers to live in the land of fantasy, the last part of that recommendation holds some truth when it comes to making horsepower with internal combustion engines. The guys at Total Seal have been telling us for years that there’s hidden horsepower in most engines if you bother to lighten up the ring package, but there have always been skeptics. Not long ago, Lake Speed Jr. was performing an engine bearing test at Shaver Racing Engines in Torrance, California, and we offered to follow along. This test had nothing to do with piston rings, but in the middle of the process of switching bearings in the 383ci small-block Chevy that is the shop’s test mule,…

Owning and driving a top-notch Camaro can be downright addictive. Just ask Vinnie Rosato of Union Beach, New Jersey, and he’ll tell you the same thing. You see, Vinnie always had a thing for Camaros—especially the 1969 models. “I’ve always been a car lover, but the 1969 Camaro has been my favorite model by far,” Vinnie says. He’s obviously not alone in his thoughts, as the 1969 has become the most sought-after F-body design of all time. So, when Vinnie got the urge to design himself a drag car to hit the local dragstrips, there was no question which car would be the basis for his new racer. “I found a suitable 1969 Camaro and turned it into a track terror. I raced it through the ’80s, ’90s, and early…

We’ve all seen the stories about engine builders producing other-worldly amounts of power on so-called “street” engines. And yes, modern engine management systems, turbos, and superchargers all make that easier than ever. But too often when you read the fine print you realize that the builder may call it a street engine, but nobody in their right mind would really want to live with it in everyday life. Compression so high you can burn only race gas, aggressive ignition timing curves that keep you constantly on the edge of detonation, and engine rebuild intervals that come up faster than tax day when you aren’t ready. Still technically streetable but hardly any fun in the real world. That’s what Prestige Motorsports aims to fix with this supercharged LS build, which has…

It’s easy to see that the Chevrolet Corvette is America’s most beloved sports car, taking owners on an amazing performance-driven journey with each defining era—from the C1 all the way to the cutting-edge C8. What’s even better is the ability to inject more edginess into the model of your choice to push it to the limits on the street, dragstrip, and road course. For Rick Smith, of Quincy, Massachusetts, building a hard-edge C3 Corvette that could carve cones at the autocross with a perfect combination of horsepower and grip led to many late nights in his workshop till it was time to hit the track. Not every build is planned, however, and this one has a unique story. Rick was autocrossing a fire-breathing, LS-powered 1971 Camaro on the circuit a…

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When laying out the plans for a fresh build or updating your present ride, it’s always a good idea to try and establish performance goals before getting started. It’s nailing down a budget to work within to be able to score the best technology available. It’s also important to make the determination if you want to have a tame boulevard cruiser, hopped-up Saturday night special, or an aggressive cone-carver. Any way you look at it, if you want to put down the power, you’d better have a rock-solid base to work with, starting with suspension, steering, and braking. On a recent visit to Procision Industries in Taunton, Massachusetts, we met up with shop owner Pat O’Brien who had recently purchased a 1971 Camaro project. The stripped roller had been blasted…

With the early ’70s came a good number of appealing and capable new cars from the auto industry, yet there was a slew of models that failed to achieve high rankings as well. Cars such as the 1971 Ford Pinto, Chevrolet Vega, the 1975 AMC Pacer, and the Plymouth Sapporo (we’d never even heard of that one), just to name a few. But nowhere on the ’70s “sucky car” list was the Chevrolet Nova. And for good reason: It had nice styling and the car’s engine was known for durability and reliability. Today, the Nova hasn’t achieved muscle car supremacy like the 1969 Camaro, but it does have a substantial following. Finding one in decent condition can still be had for a relatively reasonable price, but the popularity of these…

When a magazine title has the word “performance” in it, you expect the pages to be full of engine tech, braking info, suspension upgrades, and other performance-based stories. Overall driveability improvements that increase the joy you get from driving your Chevy is what we’re all about, which is exactly why we felt it was important to show you how to make your driving experience safer by improving the performance of your windshield wipers. That’s right, windshield wipers! We understand that windshield wipers are not likely on your top 10 list when it comes to performance, but when you roll through a rain storm, it’s amazing how high on the list a reliable, smooth-operating wiper system becomes. Inconsistent, twitchy, old wiper motors are just not safe on the road. Thanks to…

In 1969 Chevrolet built exactly 20,302 Z/28 Camaros. This is the sad fate of one of them. Discovered during a 2018 visit to Vancouver, Washington’s All American Classics auto parts yard (AAC, 800-955-4999), this LeMans Blue SCCA homologation special was just a year old and had under 5,000 miles on the odometer when it struck a concrete bridge abutment at speed. When it was new in 1969, the muscle car boom was in its sixth year. Millions of “baby boomers” were getting their driver’s licenses and the insurance industry was beginning to see what happens when teenage drivers are given cars with 300 and 400 hp. And even though the Z/28’s 302 was factory-rated at a seemingly mundane 290 hp, the reality was closer to 350 with mild tuning. What’s…