Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 5, Issue 52 - April 2025 i All Chevy Performance

John Trigg got started in the hot rod scene by spinning wrenches on cars back in his teenage years. He and his friends would mess with cars in the garage doing general maintenance and minor upgrades. That early interest in cars developed into a love for the Pro Street scene. “Hot rods and drag cars were always appealing to me, and being as my high school years went down in the late 1980s, my friends and I would spend many weekends at Gateway International Raceway watching drag racing, which is when I became totally intrigued by the Pro Street movement,” John recalls. Like many young gearheads, John’s first foray into car ownership was modest. After high school, he drove a 1974 Impala—a street cruiser that was worlds apart from the…

Old cars have personality, which means each one is a little different. Tolerances weren’t as precise as today’s machines and if you’ve ever tried to achieve show-quality panel gaps on a muscle car, you know it’s a large task. Sometimes you can get lucky and make some adjustments that make the gaps uniform, but the reality is that most cars from the 1960s and 1970s had huge gaps. Wide gaps are acceptable on an original car, or a driver, but details truly matter on high-end cars, like Mike Selvaggio’s 1966 Chevelle station wagon that’s currently under construction at Old Anvil Speed Shop in Orange, California. This car will have top-notch pieces inside and out, and a great way to accent the high-end workmanship is to dial in the panel gaps.…

Frank Antonaccio’s background as a retired auto technician has afforded him the knowledge and expertise making him proficient at restoring classic cars. He’s also no stranger to vintage Corvettes as he’s done three to four stock restorations, but when he came across this 1966 Corvette he decided to take a different approach and create a restomod tribute to the legendary Sunoco Penske racing Corvettes. The journey began in 2016 when Frank’s buddy, Lou, spotted a black 1966 Corvette for sale on Craigslist. “I’ve restored a body-off big-block car that I’ve owned since 1970 and I’ve also done a numbers-matching ’67 coupe,” Frank tells. “So, it was time for a hot rod Corvette.” When he purchased the car, it was far from being in pristine condition. It had small flares in…

The corniest and most overused story title in the book for a car magazine is “It’s a Family Affair” but sometimes you just have to go with it … or maybe not. The saga of 15-year-old Hunter Hay and his dad, Ron, building a 408ci stroker LS engine to run in a drive-and-drag 1966 Nova when Hunter turns 16 years old is really a story about Hunter and Ron’s help and support from their extended race car family. At age 11 Hunter was helping his dad service and prep a Fox-body drag racer. At that early age Hunter learned how to cut the lights when Adam Burkholder and his son, Abe, invited Ron and Hunter to check out RC drag racing. It was an awesome hobby with a full-scale Christmas…

1. NEW WHEEL STUDS ARP, renowned for engine-related bolts and studs, also offers high-performance wheel studs for competition and street use. Made from 8740 chromoly steel and heat treated to 190,000-psi tensile strength, these studs have rolled threads for improved fatigue strength and cadmium plating for protection. The Speed Studs feature a dry film lubricant. ARP provides replacement press-in studs for over three dozen OEM axles and hubs, as well as screwin studs ranging from 1.950 inches to 3.470 inches for aftermarket axles. For more information, contact ARP by calling (800) 826-3045 or visit arp-bolts.com. 2. LS BILLET INTAKE Summit Racing LS CNC Billet Intake Manifolds are designed for LS engines to handle up to 2,000 hp and over 300 psi of boost. Made for cathedral-port heads, they feature CNC-machined…

The venerable first-generation Chevrolet small-block has been out of production for decades now. Since then, multiple generations of engines from various manufacturers have come and gone, but the small-block is still everywhere you look. Of course, it remains incredibly popular in several forms of racing—everything from drag racing to oval track and beyond—and it remains a favorite with hot rodders in general. Its reputation as a reliable engine that makes great power without breaking the bank is well deserved. Besides the ability to make big power pretty easily as well as its durability, one of the great advantages of the classic small-block is its versatility thanks to tons of aftermarket support. We’ve seen great small-block builds with carburetors on tunnel port intakes, giant roots blowers, twin turbos, you name it.…

It turns out 1971 was a good year for young hot rodder Paul Tholey. The fresh-faced mechanic from Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, was on the lookout for a new ride, and luckily the stars aligned. This 1967 Chevy II practically fell into his lap. You see, the local parties were a mecca for good times and going fast, with muscle car freaks always ready to talk shop. Paul was in the right place at the right time when he overheard a Harley guy complaining about his Chevy locking up between shifts. Sensing an opportunity, Paul reached out and worked his magic to secure a deal for the needy car. As they say, the rest is history. The Butternut Yellow Chevy II—known as the “Deuce”—had already seen plenty of action in its…

Starter motors are kind of like the guy behind the counter at the auto parts store. When he’s competent and efficient you may not notice. But if he can’t find a stock spark plug for your 350 small-block 1969 Camaro, this attracts your attention and not in a good way. Starter motors can be like that—the only time you notice them is when they don’t work. Starters don’t contribute to horsepower, so they are often overlooked—until they don’t do their job. Such was the case for a stout small-block we found ourselves working on recently that offered up more than a little irritability. The owner had recently purchased his XS-series Powermaster starter motor, but it wasn’t happy. The noise it made during cranking was approaching painful. It was obvious something…

With the Legacy Series of spec-built Chevelles, Ironworks Speed & Kustom set out to create a timeless vision that melds with modern driveability. This latest version builds off that platform with a fresh set of modern aesthetics and features. The SS stripes are gone in favor of a carbon-fiber vented hood. Keystone-style wheels have now been replaced with Forgeline AL305 wheels and color-matched calipers. Up front there’s a newly designed lower valance. Modernized side mirrors and plenty of blacked-out trim help contribute to the modern look. The icing on the cake for this build is the new color palette. One ideal color for the job is Porsche Miami Blue. @TavisHighlander TavisHighlander.com Builder: Ironworks Speed & Kustom (Bakersfield, CA)…

Unlike most of us, Shane Jackson has none of the usual regrets about letting his first Chevrolet get away. It was a true granny mobile; a hand-me-down from his big brother at age 16. Their bracket-racing parents, Jamie and Janice Jackson, became second owners at 48,000 miles after the first, a female neighbor, died. “A six-cylinder Chevy II was just an old car in the 1980s,” Shane recalls, now 53. The GM factory in nearby Fremont had pumped countless copies into San Francisco’s suburbs for two decades. The Jackson family’s underpowered training wheels stayed reliably stock, other than the bling of aluminum Weld rims made fashionable by Pro Stock racers of the era. Shane has the old photos in scrapbooks. He has the old Nova in his garage. During a…

If you ever feel the need to enliven a conversation among gearheads during a bench racing session, merely float engine oil into the discussion and then sit back and watch the fireworks shoot around the room. The problem with all the resulting banter is that there are always plenty of opinions offered but a discouraging lack of facts. So, we’re going to enhance this discussion with 11 facts about engine oil along with additional tidbits of which you may not be aware that you will find useful for your current or next engine project. 1. THE BASICS Let’s start off with some fundamentals. Engine oil is made up of two components: the base oil and the additive package. It’s the combination of the base oil and its additives that dictate…

John Camp’s love for cars started early on. “I was 12 years old when I began helping my dad work on cars—he put me in charge of holding the flashlight. It didn’t seem like a huge role, but I paid attention and soaked up information like a sponge. By the time I was 16 he was holding the flashlight for me,” John laughs. “That’s basically how I was introduced to the car world.” Like so many of us, it was seeing a certain car that got our attention during our impressionable high school years. For John it was a ’69 Camaro done up in drag race trim that he fell for. That car stuck in his head for decades. That dream of owning a 1969 Camaro came true when John…