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I picked up a clean *** 1998 SS camaro a few months back. The car was a cammed/bolt on/radial 11 second car. Ended up spinning a rod bearing at 109k miles on the oem bottom. I picked the car up for 3 grand. Sold 3 grand worth of parts off from it and it began ...
After finally getting the bug to build an fbody. I decided to part out my 9 second civic street car. I daily drove the civic rain and shine. Ill always miss the car but to be competative on the street a fwd car just dosent cut it. The car was a handful but I went through tire after tire, suspension change after suspension change and just could not get the car to hook a reasonable amount of power on the street. The civic made 758whp and trapped 153mph but would do 10's. So the key to a fwd street car was less power to be functional as my 9.7 pass was on only 680/690whp. So I became tired ... onto bigger and better things.
After I picked up the car I decided to let it sit for some time to fully decide on the route I would take. As I learned with the civic, if you do it right or overbuild it the right way the first time ... you will in fact save money in the end.
Billet Specialties fbody specific rear wheels 15x10 and skinnies. I am going to run a radial but I bought them as is for $1,000 and the skinnies were brand new in the box.
Took 8 hours out of last saturday and planned to pull 200lbs out of the car ... Well I took it too far and as I weighed everything up I was at 377! So I took and extra 23.35lbs out to make it an even 400 haha.
I planned to leave them stock but I have such a hard time leaving stuff alone. Spent about 15-16 hours porting and polishing the 243's. Opened the intake up on the top and walls of the port only a small amount. I opened the exhaust side up quit a bit. A little more then I have in the past but I want to see what kind of differences it will make side by side with a stock casted 243. I have a spare set so I will probably do some comparison tests later on down the road.
Spent a lot of time polishing and meauring to make sure all of the ports were well balanced. Hopfully it helps make more power per psi.