Speed Reader - Amy's '91 Camaro C/GALT

[manta22]

Its a good thing you found those cracks before it came apart.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[Captthundarr]

No kidding Neil, I've seen cracked flex plates before but this one had four total.

Frank.

[DND]

Hi Frank

That is why Magnafluxing is a good thing to do, to catch that cracked stuff before it blows up on you !!!

Don

[lsrjunkie]

Good read Frank! Talk about the condensed version... WOW! Looking forward to following this one!

[Captthundarr]

Thanks Junkie, I did'nt post during the build as I thought it was a bit mundane, Gen3 camaro with a nothing to hoot about small block. The years I spent reading and learning on this forum made the build , to date, quite straight forward. The real challenge starts this year. We have a 5 year plan to get Amy to her goal of 200mph in the mile. She wants to be the fastest elimentary school teacher in the east. Last year was about getting her use to a car that aint got no A/C,radio, Pow'r winders, reclining bucket seats ect. The new environment was a 20 deg Kirkey containment seat, full cage, ratchet shifter, all of the safety gear and proceedures. This year the goal is to polish her skills, get her next license level, C, and run 150.0 as that is all the tires are rated to. On ward and up ward.

Frank.

[Captthundarr]

Just a note on the method of our maddness. We could kill a creditcard and buy a used NASCAR engine and trans and meet Amy's goal in short order, But what have I/we learned along the way.

[Freud]

You would learn a practical way to get a bullet proof power plant.

That would be one item checked off the to do list.

FREUD

[maguromic]

Frank, Thanks for posting your build. Tony 

[Captthundarr]

Freud, valid point, but I'm use to building little hot rod engines, want to learn the how to's of building a N/A small block with some fairly big power on the relative cheap.

Thanks Tony, my eyeballs just exploded. 8-)

[38flattie]

Frank, I was going to compliment you, but after seeing Tony's avatar,  forgot what I was going to say!

Thanks for posting your build!

[Captthundarr]

What?

[Captthundarr]

This is what the camaro looked like in Jan. '11. 3 months before the first race at Ohio in April. Southeast NC just don't get snow, period. We had 5 snow events that "winter". This winter I think it got cold (below 40deg) for about a week total.

[Frankie7799]

Yikes on the flexplate. Definitely worth the investment to get an SFI rated one. The two drag cars I ran ( the dragster in my avatar and my altered ) both required an SFI flexplate and flexplate shield. Not sure if you have room in the Camaro but it wouldnt hurt to look into a flexplate shield as well Frank. ( well itll hurt the checkbook a little  )

[Captthundarr]

Frankie, ya roger that on the SFI plate. We also installed a flexplate shield and a trans blanket. Don't need any drive line bits pizzing Amy off as she is an Irish redhead w/green eyes. I beefed up the drive line to the rear axle. With the front drive shaft loop, had a 3 1/2" drive shaft made and we are installing a rear loop as well. Lesson learned from someone that 'bout had the floor pan in thier car beat to pieces at the salt.

[Frankie7799]

Smart move. And how ironic is that, I'm married to a fiery redhead with green eyes too. Scary