ACP will provide a desire for Bowtie fans to immerse themselves into the technical aspects of vintage-to-modern Chevrolets, whether it be a muscle car or restomod.
It’s hard to believe that we here at All Chevy Performance magazine are celebrating our two-year anniversary. With ACP having a born-on date of January 2021, the magazine you are holding in your hands or reading online is our 25th issue. That’s pretty cool being the odds of success weren’t on our side, or at least that’s what some of the feedback would suggest when we announced the addition of a Chevy-only magazine to the roster of In The Garage Media’s Modern Rodding and Classic Truck Performance magazines. “Don’t you guys know that print magazines are dead?” “No one buys magazines anymore.” “Which one of you ‘brainiacs’ decided to start a new Chevy magazine?” “Why would you publish a new magazine when everything is on the Internet?” Yep, we heard…
1. TWO-SIDE TACKING Design Engineering’s (DEI) Adhesive Transfer Tape is a very aggressive, pressure-sensitive, double-sided tape designed to bond substrates while maintaining a high tack level. Use it to attach heat and sound barrier materials without the need for a spray adhesive. Available in single-or dual-roll packs, the tape measures 3 inches wide and comes in 32-foot lengths. Providing a high strength, long-term bond, it can be used for scrim reinforcement, as it resists water, condensation, and aging. It is temperature-resistant from-22 to 248 degrees F. For more information, contact DEI by calling (800) 264-9472 or visit designengineering.com. 2. INJECTION BASE The Hilborn RAW “Race-And-Win” Injector is the classic racing unit for the standard Gen 1 small block Chevy. These base intake manifolds fit small-block Chevy engines with ’55-86 262-400…
This is one Camaro that is deceptive from the get-go. From a distance it looks like another nice Yenko clone. Dig into the details and you’ll find that this build goes deeper than others. Although not originally a Yenko, this series of SPEC Camaros are officially endorsed by Yenko. While the graphics and overall appearance remind you of a restoration, the underpinnings will not. A SPEC Roadster Shop chassis with 14-inch Baer brakes handles some major new power. There’s a Don Hardy–built 427 LS underhood dressed as a stock GM powerplant. The 18-inch Atlas Mags complement the retro styling but offer up room for big brakes and 335mm rear tires. That retro style runs through the interior as well. Stock shapes remain but most everything is fit and finished with…
It doesn’t matter what decade you grew up in as there’s always been that particular moment in time sitting at your desk daydreaming about owning the most-wicked hop-up in town while the teacher rambled on about some mundane subject. A flash so real that you could smell the race fuel and burning tires mixed with adrenalin as you launched from the lights during a late-night street race till you got the proverbial tap on the shoulder to snap out of it. The ’61 Corvette gasser laid out across our pages brings a high school flashback to life for Danny Jones of Joppa, Maryland, who dreamed of owning a hot Chevy with a nosebleed stance for an eternity. Growing up in an automotive family since his dad sold Studebakers, it wasn’t…
HOW TO DETERMINE WHETHER YOUR SMALL-BLOCK CHEVY IS A BUILDER OR A BOAT ANCHOR If you’ve been around old cars for very long, you’ve experienced the pressure and anxiety of buying a used engine. It’s always a gamble, whether it’s a freshly plucked junkyard engine or an abandoned build that someone claims is “ready to assemble.” Occasionally, you’ll get lucky, but there are plenty of duds and so-called “Corvette engines” out there, so beware. Our intention with this article is to give you some clues for quick inspections when you’re under the gun, and some tips for further investigation when you have time to run the numbers. In the case of our subject engine, we picked it up in a package deal with a ratty late-’70s Nova. No information was…
In the summer of 1969, Bryan Adams bought his first real six-string at the five and dime, Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones purchased an old home belonging to A.A. Milne (author of the Winnie-The-Pooh books) and later that year was found dead in the pool, and on August 15, 1969 the Woodstock Music and Art Fair took place in upstate New York. It was three days of love, peace, and music that featured 32 planned acts and two unplanned births. It’s hard to believe but those two babies would now be 53 years old. Also born that same year was the ’69 Camaro, a car that the GM engineers had no idea would arguably be the most popular muscle car ever built over 50 years later—a remarkable feat that I’m…
