welcome to wacky Wednesday's, where everyone has a chance to show off their
car mods and here's this week's winner, hello today I am bringing to you my 1969
Camaro z28, we'll start with a little bit of history about this car first, my mom
bought this car in 1970 or there abouts, it was her first real car instead of
some throwaway piece of junk, and she did actually race it, though
technically not legally, did some light to light racing but the 302 just tend to
eat up too many clutches and it was too hard to get traction when you dump the
clutch at 6,000 rpm, so she found her groove in long distance marathon racing
on the street often going from Denver to Fort Collins sometimes as far as Wyoming
and I think I even remember stories about going to Nebraska, and we did sell
the car at one point and got it back with a radiator full of plain water,
water froze and wound up cracking the block in five places, we still have it
and it's going to get restored back to its original glory
the current engine is a 350 cubic inch small block, it's got a split duration
262, 272 to hydraulic cam, I got a fast easy EFI fuel injection set up and that
has improved everything greatly on the performance of the car, I highly
recommend it especially if you are afraid to get away from carburetors it's
very friendly towards carburetor junkies like us, the thing that sets this apart
from most Camaros is the side pipes which have been on the car probably
since about 1975, I had to rebuild the whole exhaust because it only had about
a one and a half to two inch original exhaust
it's very restrictive, because it starts at the header clear over here and then
it had to wind all the way past the subframe then all the way back down to
this corner and then out the back, the exhaust is probably about twice the
length of the whole car, and because of the power loss, we wound up putting the
electric exhaust cutouts in the back, so if I ever needed that extra power all I
had to do is flip the switch, because I am a little bit too robust to be getting
underneath the car to uncap the headers, as you can see I'm getting ready to put
some new leaf springs, I also have some new shocks, this car is extremely
precious to me, because my mom left it to me
she passed away in 2015 and have a little vial of her ashes hanging in the
window there, just so I always have her with me, I took care of her through her
final years and I had this made up and
she and I bonded over this car, got a spot for my dad, my friends as well
because they all helped, my friends help me build the engine, my dad and I worked
on the engine a lot, my dad did the paint and bodywork, and most of the designing
was done by me, so this car to me is a lot more important than just a nice car
it is very much a part of my family, anyway I'm glad to have had the
opportunity to show this car to you, it's definitely my baby it's never going
anywhere, no way no how, and this is going to be my mom's 56 gasser
done in her honor as well, well thank you very much hope everybody's having a
great year,
and please forgive that it is running so rich, it is still a little bit
cold-blooded, well that was this week's video and to have your car mod shown on
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