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Alan Grove has alternator brackets that work with heads that don't have holes in them. He makes something like 37 different brackets for a SBC.
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FYI - there is a partially built Alpha 1 GTO listed on eBay http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=2477623433&category=7251
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I would definitely contact Tom at Scorpion Z Cars http://www.scorpionzcars.com/ as I think he has the best looking kit.
Sorry, I usually don't do this but I have heard only bad things about AZ Z Car and would never do business with them.
How you build it is up to you and your taste. I tend to like them closer to stock because the GTO has such a classic (and classy!) look as you can tell from my car
Either way you are going to love the result.
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StreetSleeper - I think you are going to have to take it apart to find out. My SBC book and two other web sites agree with Mortec.
http://www.thedirtforum.com/castings.htm and http://www.4willyb.com/
I'd put money on it that your 3970010 engine is a 350 out of a truck. I say that only because 3970010 truck engines are very common (plus it has a cast iron intake and 2BBL.) and 3970010 327 Vette motors are quite rare.
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I hope you find that somebody changed the intake/carb because GM never made a 2BBL Corvette engine.
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Depending on the trans you use it also helps you to get the shifter up through the floor and console in the stock position.
Like you, I have a 327 SBC with a T-5 but in a 1971 240Z. I located the engine back 3/4 of an inch so the shifter now comes up in the stock location. However, I did not use an HEI. Because of my Tri-Power setup I went with the small MSD billet distributor.
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Welcome to HybridZ VanillaSky! You'll find a few GTO Z owners here.
I have traded emails with Tom and it looks like he builds a fine car. Sometime I would like to see one in person. I like the trunk kit he has come up with. If my car wasn’t already finished I would definitely add the trunk kit to my car.
Also, based on some of the stuff he has available I would guess he has been working with Jim Simpson. http://www.simpsondesign.net/index.htm Jim used to build the GTO (he called it a Rhino) when he owned Blue Ray Engineering. Jim is a great guy and also builds some very high quality parts.
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They are called side curtains and they are a bit of a pain. Can't lock them, they leak both air and water, restrict airflow, etc. BTW, not all original GTO's had side curtains.
BTW, you might want to check out this site. http://www.maranello.cc/All.Ferraris/
http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages/view_page.pl?page_id=236622
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I don't even have a radio - the only thing stereo is the exhaust!
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Here's mine.
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There used to be a couple of Daytona Cobra coupe kits available for Z cars. One if them was called a Nalle GT http://www.zparts.com/indexes/inprogress.html
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It would be great if it was a 302!!!!
Tim240Z is right and here is the place where you can find casting numbers http://www.mortec.com/castnum.htm
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Why don't you just buy a real roll bar?
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The GM "Piston Slap" problem is all over the news and internet with the government looking into it and the lawyers starting class action suits. Although it's for later trucks (1999 and up) when they changed the piston design. I'd suggest you do some searching and reading.
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Sorry to hear about your TT. I had a '90 NA and '94 TT and loved both cars but the TT was my favorite. The four wheel steering helped the thing to corner like it was on rails! Without a doubt one of the most exciting and best cars I ever owned but I traded it in on an NSX.
Anyway, you might want to consider a crate engine. http://www.paceparts.com They even have a factory warranty!
LS1 is a great engine but did you ever consider a 383 SBC or ZZ4, (I'd say ZZ430 but they are really rare)?
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One of my Chrysler buddies sent this to me and I thought some of you might find it interesting.
" DEFINITION OF ACCELERATION "
One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more
horsepower than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona
500.
Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons
of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet
fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to
drive the dragster's supercharger.
With 3,000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on
overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid
form before ignition.
Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
At the stoichiometric (stoichiometry: methodology and
technology by which quantities of reactants and products in
chemical reactions are determined)
1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane, the flame front
temperature measures 7,050 deg F.
Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen
above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen,
dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing
exhaust gases.
Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the
output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass.
After halfway, the engine is dieseling from compression, plus
the glow of exhaust valves at 1,400 degrees F. The engine
can only be shut down by cutting the fuel
flow.
If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro
builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with
sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in
pieces or split the block in half.
In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must
accelerate an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph
(well before half-track), > the launch acceleration
approaches 8G's.
Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have
completed reading this sentence.
Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from
light to light! Including the burnout, the engine must only
survive 900 revolutions under load.
The redline is actually quite high at 9,500 rpm.
Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for
free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an
estimated $1,000.00 per second.
The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441
seconds for the quarter mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The
top speed record is 333.00 mph. (533 km/h) as measured over
the last 66' of the run (09/28/03 Doug
Kalitta).
Putting all of this into perspective:
You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-
turbo" powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a Top
Fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter
mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying
start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears
and blast across the starting line and past the dragster at
an honest 200 mph. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at
that moment.
The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your
foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that
sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds, the dragster
catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish
line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him.
Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had
spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted
you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1,320 foot
long race course.
..and that my friends, is ACCELERATION !
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I think they are "spinners" if that's all they really do.... spin as the wheel goes around. They are "Knock-Offs" if they really hold the wheel on the car like the Cobra example or mine http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages/view_page.pl?page_id=236622 They come with a heavy lead hammer for installation.
BTW, my knock-off wire wheels are from Dayton Wheel http://www.daytonwheel.com/home.htm
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ecp48 - It’s actually quite durable. You are re-dying the fabric similar to what the manufacture did when they originally made it. Black is an easy color so you shouldn't have much of a problem.
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Here's an old trick from the used car reconditioning guys. Pick up some RIT dye in black (powder or liquid). Walmart and hardware stores usually carry it. Add all of it to a bucket of warm water along with a good carpet shampoo. Get yourself a good stiff brush and (wearing gloves!!!!) scrub the carpet really well. Let it dry and it will look like new again.
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I’ll go with Grumpy on this one since I use TrickFlow aluminum heads on my 327 and love them.
http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages/view_page.pl?page_id=236622
I used their 23 degree heads and the old 365HP 327 cam which uses solid lifters. Trickflow listed them as having 64cc chambers. Yes, you need to use hard washer under the bolts because you will gall the aluminum. On cast iron heads the hard washers help to even out the torque so it's a good idea to use them with all heads. You don't have to buy a set because Trickflow supplied them with the heads. I did not have to change anything else - head bolts, pushrods, valve covers, intake manifold, etc.
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Hey John - I think you have a few pictures of my car mixed in there!
http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages/view_page.pl?page_id=236622 What gives as I thought you were selling it.
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I bought two 90 degree heater hose connectors at the local auto parts store. Then I bought two heater hoses with 90 degree bends molded in.
The 90 degree connector is inserted into the firewall. The heater hose is flat against the firewall and was cut to the length that the 90 bend molded into the hose gets it around the valve cover. Absolutely no rubbing!
BTW, because of my larger valve covers and extra JTR setback I had very little room. http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages/view_page.pl?page_id=236622
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There are lots of interior pieces listed in the MotorSport Auto http://www.zcarparts.com/ They sell both factory and reproduction interior parts.
Finding a lot of old Z cars in a junkyard in Hawai'i would be a bit tough. Also, interior parts from an old Z car sitting in a junkyard may not be in very good condition. After all, we are talking about cars that are over 20 years old!
However, I had really good luck with the ZBarn http://www.zbarn.com/ and they can usually can get you what you need.
BTW, using the vinyl dye and the vinyl parts that are in good condition is a great idea. I changed the interior of my 1965 Corvette from tan to dark blue that way. The dye actually soaks into the vinyl and changes the color. In the seven years that I owned the car it never wore through to the old color.
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Absolutely!
scarab kit, anyone running an electric fan with scarab kit ?
in Gen I & II Chevy V8 Tech Board
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It's not as efficient, but you could always user a pusher type fan and install it in front of the radiator.