Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 1, Issue 10 October 2021 i All Chevy Performance

Life often throws challenges our way. How you adjust to compensate for it could mean the difference between success and failure. Since the early ’80s, Jay and Erin Doleshale, of Bonner Springs, Kansas, traveled state-to-state racing Outlaw Pro Street drag bikes. Jay was creeping up on the 6s at over 200 mph (with no wheelie bars) when they lost their entire operation to a shop fire in 2013—talk about challenges! Luckily, no one was hurt but there was nothing left. Instead of rebuilding the decades-old operation, they decided to switch to four wheels so they could both have fun. The two agreed on a 1967 Chevy II and found one on eBay in Texas. It was just a shell but it was a good rust-free body. They bought it sight…

An LS swap into a Chevelle is not breaking news. In fact, it’s a nearly commonplace occurrence. Most media stories reveal just the main points and never the little details and information that make the swap a success. There are plenty of nuances to these swaps and after struggling through our fair share of these, we thought we’d share the little nuggets as well. For example, if you don’t choose the right oil pan, ground clearance will suffer, the pan will hit the crossmember or the steering linkage at full lock. Our test mule is a somewhat out-of-the ordinary 1967 Custom 300 sedan that Eric Rosendahl purchased with a small-block 383 and a TREMEC five-speed. While he loved the car with its Hotchkis suspension, 17-inch wheels, four-wheel discs, and great…

https://vimeo.com/586941479 The saying goes, “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” For ex-Sprint Car racer Shawn Rhyne of Marion, Arkansas, it took a little bit of time and trading to make the other man’s “junk” 1970 Camaro RS into a treasure, but he finally got there. The story is proof that persistence pays off. Shawn was deep into Sprint Car racing—like over-his-head deep. He was pretty successful punching above his weight, racing on a shoestring budget around the South. However, it all changed in 2011. After spending his winnings refreshing the chassis in the offseason, he was taken out by another competitor in the first race, stuffing the car under a guardrail. With a family on the way and no money left in the bank after fixing the car, he…

There’s nothing better than the sound of a hopped-up Chevy mill, especially if it’s running a set of dual quads, a blower, or turbochargers. The sheer adrenalin rush of feeling the ground shake under your feet as your heart races lets you know all is well in the performance automotive world. With everything that’s passed in the last year it was a refreshing break to get back on the road and head off to a huge national event to hang out with like-minded car owners who were more than ready for a long-awaited horsepower fix. We topped off the tank and set our sights on New York to experience the 21st Annual NAPA Auto Parts Syracuse Nationals. After taking a year off, the Nationals team was more than ready to…

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When it comes to installing a camshaft the operation is pretty straightforward: lube the lobes, slide it in the block, and install the timing chain set. But for those gearheads who might want to adjust the timing of the cam for a little more low-end grunt or to move the powerband up a few hundred rpm, there’s more to the simple stab-and-go approach. And even if you find yourselves, like us, not chasing that little bit of extra power but like the idea of double-checking that everything is as advertised, there lies more to a camshaft install than one might realize. This extra step is commonly known as “degreeing” the camshaft. In layman’s terms, degreeing a camshaft is the simple operation of checking that the installed camshaft functions happen as…

“I’ve always liked doing things my way. I’ve been like that throughout my entire life,” Henry Shelton states. “When it comes to muscle cars, most of my friends have old Chevelles, but I wanted to build something different, which is why I built this 1974 Nova. It’s not even considered the most desirable year in the Nova world, but I just dig the look of this particular model. I guess it goes back to wanting to build something a little different from everyone else.” For Henry, the muscle car itch began way back in 1986 when he was just 18 years old. A neighbor of his owned a Candy Apple Red Nova–it was loud and it was mean. That car became the motive for Henry wanting a car just like…

For most performance fans, the 2020 Corvette is just about perfect. With tons of horsepower cranking out from the mid-engine 6.2L LT2 powerplant, big sticky tires at the four corners, and an interior right out of a SpaceX rocket, there’s no reason to change a thing, right? Wrong! Well that’s certainly incorrect if you talk to J.R. Granatelli who took his $100,000 Corvette and started pulling off panels, engine components, and a lot of other stuff to bolt in a few very cool performance upgrades. His purpose was to not only dyno test the stock machine to determine rear-wheel power output, but to add some of his dyno-tested performance parts that have already proven to generate significant power increases on other cars with similar powertrains. As if that weren’t enough,…

The COVID-19 national lockdown of 2020 gave many of us a case of cabin fever–the feeling of being imprisoned in our otherwise-comfortable and happy homes. By staying out of circulation, we did our part to help squash the bug. But on occasion it was necessary to venture out into the world–preferably to sparsely populated locations where the risk of transmission was minimal. Such was the case one June afternoon in 2020 when we visited the quiet farming town of Charlemont, Massachusetts, and Clark’s Chevy Ranch. Over a year has passed since these photos were taken, so enjoy this review of interesting Chevy relics that face their own special pandemic: rust. It’s true that rust never sleeps, but with the same spirit of human enterprise that so quickly conjured a COVID-19…

Making a muscle car appear more modern is a delicate procedure. Change things too much and you end up with an abomination. If you don’t change enough you may have something too subtle for your liking. Murray Kustom Rods tasked me with riding that line with their 1970 Nova project. It had the great underpinnings already started with modern power and a Roadster Shop chassis. Tuning the overall look was going to be the trick. We started by shaping a minimalist front bumper that still jives with the stock grille shell. Under that would be some 1969 Camaro-esque foglamps. A custom front spoiler finishes off the chin. Inside the grille is a custom hex-themed insert that is also mimicked on the rear taillight panel. The hood started as a desire…

When it comes to building a classic hot rod you can pay a shop to do it all and have it done fairly quickly, or as in Mike Friend’s case with the build of his 1968 Camaro, you can take the ol’ “start ’n’ stop” route, which, unfortunately, adds a few more years to the build. It’s not ideal, and it wasn’t Mike’s initial plan, but that’s how it went down. “I bought the car off an eBay auction about nine years ago from a guy in Detroit who claimed he was the second owner who purchased it from a guy in Bakersfield who claimed to be the original owner,” Mike states. “The shell was in good shape with little-to-no rust, although it needed a tail panel, doorskin, hood, and…

If you are familiar with NASCAR Cup engines, then you are likely aware that they have used their solid-gold R&D budgets to develop drysump oiling systems that use a multi-stage pump to do more than just move motor oil around. The engines are actually sealed tight, and the external oil pump also scavenges air along with oil to effectively pull a vacuum inside the crankcase. Obviously they are doing that because it helps create horsepower. But the Cup system also comes with a lot of complexity and maintenance, and for hobby-level racers dry-sump oiling systems aren’t usually legal. The good news, however, is there is an option for those of us with cubic zirconia budgets that can get us close to the same result. As an engine is running, some…

Modern technology has certainly crept into our world of hot rodding and performance. There are plenty of electronically controlled devices, from ignitions to gauges, transmissions, and, of course, fuel injection systems. In many cases, these make great updates to our Chevys, but sometimes keeping things simple is a welcome change. One of the great debates over the last decade is that of going with modern EFI or sticking with the old technology of a carburetor. It seems that all the talk is about throttle bodies and port fuel injection these days, but we recently saw the updates Edelbrock made to their line of AVS series carburetors and we can tell you that the R&D on their tried-and-true carbs continues right alongside their EFI program. They recently released the next generation…