Shop Tour - Hardcore Drag Racing

  Robert George is from New Zealand and races this cool old school 1974 Camaro Z28. The original steel body was outfitted with fiberglass doors and front clip from Hairy Glass .  In race trim it only weighs 2350 pounds.   It features a full Chris Alston tube chassis with a Mustang II front end. Out back a set of ladder bars mount to a Dana 60 filled with 5:13 gears & a spool.  QA-1 shocks handle the bumps front and rear.   This is Robert's office. More high quality tin work is through out the interior. An old school cable drive Moroso Tach. sits on the dash , and only a trio of gauges is needed to keep an eye on things.       For power an LS7 454 fills the engine bay. It breaths through a big Holley Dominator carb. And it's filled with old school speed secrets. Dress up items include vintage Moroso valve covers.  The horsepower is sent to a TH-400 transmission with a trans-brake and a high-stall torque converter.     Here is a view with the front clip installed , we can s

                                                  This 1968 Nova is a tribute to the past with the Yenko stripe treatment over the refrigerator white paint job . With its supercharged big block sticking through the hood and tubed out Pro/Street rear-end ,Don Yenko would call this a modern super car !         This Pro/Street special features a Chevrolet 8.1L 496 Stroker big block that makes  850+HP on 93 Octane Pump Gas.   It features a Scat Steel Crankshaft, Eagle forged H-beam rods & pistons. And the star of the show is the Weiand 8-71 Supercharger with a nitrous oxide injection system.   The big block is finished with a set of Brodix 360CC aluminum heads.    An ISKY roller cam with Crane lifters bump the valves. A polished BDS finned air scoop covers a pair of  Holley Pro-Series XE 950CFM 4BBL carburetors .                                                                 The body is all steel except for the fiberglass 3 inch cowl-induction hood.                                

  This 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Pro-Street custom is just amazing.  The build took over 4 years to complete with body and paint by Marx Hot-rod's.    The engine room features a Chrysler Mega Block stretched to 540 C.I. topped with  Indy Aluminum heads fed by an F2- Procharger. This combo makes over 1000  horsepower with the current drive pulley .                                               Spark is controlled by an MSD 6 BTM box and Pro-Billet distributor.   The cooling system features an Indy reverse flow water pump system that feeds into a huge four-core radiator equipped with dual Spal fans.    Ceramic headers and 3inch tubes expel the fumes. Backing up  that horsepower is a 727torque-flite trans.with a 3500rpm stall converter .  A Ford 9 inch rear end is stuffed with 4:10 gears,strange spool , & 35 spline axles. An Art Morrison back half was installed with ladder bars and adjustable coil over shocks. The front suspension is equipped with a Magnum Force K- member fitted

  This blue flamed 1955 Chevrolet 150 Series two-door sedan has a vintage Drag Strip look, With its supercharged engine, racing suspension, and street slicks...    But it also has lights, mirrors, and wipers, that the owner says makes it street legal. The one-piece tilt front end is made of fiberglass for weight savings and easy engine access. The rest of the body is factory steel.  The engine is a 327cu.in. small block with a Weiand 6-71 Roots-style supercharger that’s topped by a pair of 500 cfm. Carter AFB four barrel carburetors. The fenderwell exit exhaust headers were made by Doug’s Headers. A Turbo 350 three-speed automatic transmission bangs the gears , and it’s equipped with a 3000 RPM converter which is controlled by a Hurst shifter . The nose ble ed front suspension was attained with parallel leaf springs and a tube axle, from Speedway . The brakes are Wilwood disc’s front & rear, and the 10 bolt rear end hangs on huge ladder bars supported by air shocks .   Th

    This 1962 Corvette Gasser was built to resemble the car Drag Racing legend Big John Mazmanian raced in the 60's. It was a four year no expense spared build,and features the best period correct parts that could be found or they were fabricated when they couldn't . The main attraction is the all aluminum 434 CID. Chevrolet small block . It's filled with a Lunati crank, CP Carillo connecting rods and swings Ross pistons. For the top end, a set of Bodix cylinder heads, which were fully ported and filled with Manley SS valves. For stellar performance , a Dyres 6-71 blower and a pair of 650 Holley double pumpers are mounted up top.   The owner stated that the combination is good for 650 Horsepower ! And it's street driven on 93 octane pump gas .   This is a factory 4-speed car,so it was natural to keep the manual transmission , the Corvette now features Hurst linkage and a Hurst shifter , power is applied through Lakewood-housing and Centerforce clutch . The interior feat

  This 1977 Chevrolet Nova Super Sport is a Street Racer Special. It features a big block 427CI V8 with large amounts of compression.   Fuel is mixed by a Holley 750 CFM. double pumper mounted on a vintage Weiand Team-G single plane intake manifold.   It's running a full roller valve-train by Comp Cams with over .500 lift. Spark is handled by a full MSD ignition system, 6AL Box,Pro-Billet distributor and 8MM wire set.   Connected to that 427 is a heavy-duty Turbo 400 three speed automatic. Hard launches are courtesy of a 4000 RPM torque converter & trans brake, that's controlled by a Cheetah shifter. The chassis was back halved with ladder-bars which hangs a 12 bolt rear end filled with 4.56:1 gears and a spool. A set of three way adjustable coil over shocks keep the rear tires planted. The front features old school 90/10 drag shocks and six cylinder coil springs. For rolling stock ,huge Cragar wheels- 15x14 in the rear and 15x5's up front. Traction is not an issue.  

                    This 1967 Camaro is nicknamed "Sinister", because it has a bad attitude according to the owner. It's powered by a Dart Big M block stroked to 565 CI . A Holley 1050 CFM Dominator feeds this beastly big block, which sits on-top of a  Dart single plane intake manifold.  A Barry Grant BG- 400 fuel pump supplies Sunoco 110 octane race fuel from the rear mounted 10 gallon cell .  A huge four-core Griffin radiator with three electric fans cools that large big block , for fast cool downs between runs.       The Camaro  has a full ATI drive line , including a TH- 400 transmission with a  4000 RPM stall converter with a trans- brake.  Shifting is courtesy of a B&M Pro- ratchet shifter.  There are massive Wilwood disk brakes on the front & rear and  if that is not enough stopping power , the Camaro is equipped with a Simpson parachute .   It rolls on a set of  Weld  15x5 aluminum wheels with 26X6 Mickey Thompson SPORTSMAN S/R TIRES on the front , while t