1972 camaro procharged 581

[solarguy09]

Very Nice Job...

[sovain]

damn!

[ndians68]

nice project, Hope to see it done!

[speedjohnston]

Here is a little info on the suspension for v8240z. I'm using the SPC adjustable arms, AFX spindles, Baer extreme plus (6s) front brakes with 14" rotors, Howe tall ball joints, center link and tie rods, and a speedway engineering sway bar. Shocks are from RCD and are a modded Bilstein.





The steering box is a custom Lee box with a slower ratio for high speed.



I had some custom spring adjusters made to make it even easier to adjust height.

[V8240Z]

All I can say right now is INCREDIBLE!

[Simmo]

I think i've seen that front end before....Mark's Book??

Very, very cool!

[speedjohnston]

I think i've seen that front end before....Mark's Book??

Very, very cool!

Yes, it was in Marks book. Good eye!

[Procharmo]

Real nice. Are you looking to follow in the steps of Polly Trans Am and be the first Procharged Camaro to win SSCA? Which head unit is it, F1R, F2? Did you do the arches or were they already on the car?

Stunning extreme build. I'll watch this one for sure.......

[Camster]

OMGoodness, amazing project man.Loving the aggressive look!

[speedjohnston]

Real nice. Are you looking to follow in the steps of Polly Trans Am and be the first Procharged Camaro to win SSCA? Which head unit is it, F1R, F2? Did you do the arches or were they already on the car?

Stunning extreme build. I'll watch this one for sure.......

The funny thing is I found out about the polly trans am after I was well into the build (its actually been a few years). I am running the F2 blower, and the arches were on the car when I bought it in 1991. At the time they had been tacked and were cracking so I had the filler removed and had a solid bead welded, and then refilled to smoothen them back out.

[speedjohnston]

My latest arrival was my GoodAero wing. Beautiful piece in carbon fibre. Only weighs about 5lbs. Hard to imagine all that force on something so light.





Its not completely mounted yet, but we were making some adjustments on friday. Needs to be lowered just a tiny bit and only the bottom mounts are attached, the upper mounts hopefully welded in place on monday if everything lines up ok.

[speedjohnston]

This is the 'little monster' under the hood. A 581 ci BBC with an F2 procharger. With a mild tune and only 5500 rpm the horsepower was 1234 and climbing and the torque was 1178lb-ft and climbing. By 3400rpm its allready making about 800lb-ft of torque. At the time it was on the dyno it had no intercooler and a different carb hat, and a smaller than recomended headers and exhaust. Although I won't (probably) run it that high, peak power for this cam is suppose to come at 7400rpm. After some break in and some fine tuning, intercooler, and maybe some more boost it could be.... ?

[speedjohnston]

Headers were custom made with 2 1/2" primaries going into 5" oval exhaust pipe. A custom 'flat' collector was made to keep some ground clearance.

[speedjohnston]

[sokoloka]

Absolutely amazing. Can't wait to see it done!

[austin552]

You sir are an artist.

[surnufz]

Awesome!

[rocketrod]

Simply amazing!!!!

[speedjohnston]

Thanks guys. Glad you like it. I wasn't sure if it would be well received being a little on the 'not very subtle' side. lol

I went to Rossler (as he builds the fastest automatics in the world) to build me a 4L80E that had engine breaking, could be manually shifted and handle full throttle shifts with that kind of torque into overdrive. The overdrive was modified with extra clutch packs that weren't even on the market at the time of purchase. It also has all those sfi goodies so I don't lose my toes.

[Vegas69]

What do you mean you aren't going to rev it to peak power? Are you American? ha