All Chevy Performance Volume 5, Issue 55 - July 2025

In a world where we get our information from what seems like a bazillion sources, there is no shortage of podcasts as one of those sources. Last check there were 2 million global podcasts, with roughly 850,000 to 1 million based or produced in the United States. Needless to say, the U.S. is the largest podcast market, both in terms of content creation and listenership. Some start out hot then gradually fade away, but those who create a unique podcast with a subject matter for a wide audience can survive and become a lucrative business. The most popular genre is true crime, with comedy, news, society and culture, business, and health and wellness following closely behind. Podcasts are one of the fastest-growing and most influential sources when it comes to…

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This Tri-Five is currently under the knife at SaltWorks Fab in Sarasota, Florida. It arrived at the shop as a wellcrafted, finished car. Plans were drawn up to maintain the exterior, but to customize the underhood and interior to the new owner’s liking. That underhood area is getting a complete refresh centered around a vintage-appearing LS with Lokar’s Rochester injection intake system. The backdated powerplant will be surrounded by new sheetmetal with a vintage vibe. Moving to the interior you can see mildly bolstered seats with a nod to factory GM styling. The dash takes the doublehump setup from the factory while adding more layering and detailing. Individual brows will shade the custom gauge cluster and passenger-side bezel. A bright blue accent has been chosen to add life to the…

Travis Alford has pretty much always been a Camaro guy. Being his first car was a 1980 version, that pretty much planted the second-gen seed. But the ’80s Camaros’ performance left a lot to be desired. During that time emissions standards had reduced engine power, choaking the 350 engines to just about 190 hp—and that was on a good day. By 1980 the Camaro had also gained weight compared to the early second-gens (1970-73). Add in vague steering and poor braking performance, coupled with the aforementioned reduction in power, and late second-gens were basically slugs—not bad-looking slugs, but slugs none the less. Years later, Travis wanted to revisit the Camaro world, but this time it had to be a 1970-73 model. “My buddy, Brian Vastine found a clean, one-owner ’70…

A few months ago we offered a look into spotting and identifying the GM LS Gen III and IV 4.8L and 5.3L LS engines. Now that you know what to look for, we can offer suggestions on how to pump up the power with these engines. Common sense might dictate that all that’s necessary is to just follow the footsteps of classic small-block Chevy builds, and in a general sense that would be correct. But the Gen III/IV LS engines enjoy far superior flowing cylinder heads compared to the Gen I small-block. Even the most pedestrian cathedral port heads for the 5.3L LM7 engine flows better and enjoys far better combustion efficiency than the best production Gen I head. While stock 5.3L (325ci) truck engines are only rated at 300…

Monica Tholey Lucas wasn’t like all the other girls growing up in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. While her schoolmates at St. Basil’s all-girls school were into boy bands and doing girly things, Monica spent her days reading car magazines and gathering a cranium full of Chevy muscle car knowledge on yenko.net, a website dedicated to high-powered Chevys and the ilk. It was there she chatted with her fellow muscle car enthusiasts and set the stage for her first big muscle car build. The proverbial apple didn’t fall far from the tree, as Monica was the daughter of local racer and hot rodder supreme Paul Tholey. Having a pair of X chromosomes didn’t stop her in the least, or her older sister Eileen for that matter, as both girls hung with the…