Alf

I raced BMX for five years untill I bought my Camaro, I was 16 expert when I quit in 02. I accomplished alot during my run, I was number four in the nation and number one for the North East Region a couple times. I've really been looking to get back into it, I had a great time, but I sold my bike a few years back to buy a 12 bolt rear for the Camaro. One thing is for sure though, there's nothing like floating through a rythem section. I have a bunch of racing video, but it's on tape, anyone know how to get that onto a computer?

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Update # 14 5/7/07 Greetings, Well, I have about one week untill I'm back on native soil in New Jersey, don't worry, the rod is coming home with me. I havn't been doing much lately due to the closing semester, gotta stay up with the school work. Even though I said the car wasn't going to the show at my school, it did. After a bunch of classmates asked me about if I was bringing it or not I decided to. A budy of mine let me use his truck and trailer which was a god sent, and the school let me store it in their shop over night so I could just push it out the morning of the show. The forecast was gloomey with forecasted chance of hail and thunderstorms, but the show turned out decent with almost 100 cars. The VG rod got some good publicity, some people loved it, some people had no clue what to think, and others didn't like it because it wasn't their style I guess. But I got some pictures so check em' out. This is out side my shop, I pushed it out to get some more pictures with the new parts. I ended up talking to a guy that saw it from the street ,while driving by, for an hour. There she is at the show, notice the beaten down grass around the car, it drew quite a crowd. Of course no one knew what the engine was. Sweet little Porsche across the way, and the vette convertable had a 427 with three two barrels. This was also at the show. This car is very similar to mine by coincidence. It's running a quad four GM four cylinder with a model T body, nice car. Thats all folks, my next update will most likely be from home, so keep your eyes open for more progress. I'd also like to thank everyone for the comments.

I still havn't got the engine running, so if you guys have any tidbits of info I should know about, don't hold back.

Update #13 4/23/07 Well, it's been a while. I guess you could say I've hit the "wall" on this project, I'm pretty burnt out, and things are slowing down. I'm never going to make the car show I mentioned earlier, but no worries, there's always next year, and she'll be finished by then. Inspite of my new found lack of enthusiasm, things are still getting accomplished and i've got some pictures bellow, check em out. I decided what I wanted to do with my headers and there's the finished product, still got the D-side to do yet. I had been dreading this job for months. I had to do some serious frame mods to make everything work. The biggest problem was that the center of the X happened to fall right under the mount on the tranny, no good. My plan was to brace the frame with all the new pieces that were to be added, then cut the X out. As you can see it turned out to resemble a truss. This is how she sits at the moment. Another problem with the prior frame design was the fact that I couldn't remove the drive shaft, so I modified the rear cross member to remedy that. I still have to put some cross braces between the rails, I plan to include a couple D-shaft loops as well. I made my transmission crossmember now that I had the room. I just cut out the center of the original and added some mounting tabs, fits like a glove. I went to a local truck junk yard a few weeks ago and scored some SW gauges, ignition switch, and a turn signal setup. All I need is a tack to complete the instrumentation. As I was trying to finish the fabrication on the frame I got to the gas tank mounting brackets, then I realized I needed a tank to make brackets. So I started with a gear oil drum I got from a truck repair shop. I cut about ten inches out, then smashed it a little and called it good for now. What I came up with for gas tank mounts. I sacrificed my belt to test it out, looks good so far. That's all for now folks. I'm going to try and build my drivshaft this week, and try to get some sheet metal for the body. Keep your eyes pealed. So long Alf

Exactly my thoughts, your mixture is burning in the exhaust instead of the chamber.

I checked that tonight, I feel no click, I checked different ones, but none clicked. The relay isn't clicking either so I think that may be the problem. Thanks for the help and compliments.

I run a Carter high volume pump on my Camaro, they're between $50 and $60 in Jegs or Summit. This pump has no return and the lower diaghram plate screws on so you can index it. It's on a 350 with a 750 Holley, I've run it clear up to 7k with no hickups. If I was you, I would make certain that poor fuel flow was your problem. T a pressure guage into your line, get a passenger to watch the guage, and run through the gears, if you see a sudden drop in pressure then you know it's a fuel flow problem. My guess, since you said it just started doing it after you added dual exhaust, is carb adjustment. Check the fuel level in the bowls. You may also be pushing the limits of your 670 carb.

Back again. I still havn't figured out the fuel problem, I tried a different regulator, but it still didn't work. I realized that the pump does not squirt any fuel through the return line even when the engine is cranking, is that normal? Anyway, in the mean time I've been trimming down the Z31 harness for use on the hot rod and I have quite a pile going, but I have a few questions. This car is only going to have the bare essentials when finished. headlights tail lights, brake, blinkers licence plate light electric fuel pump ignition and whatever the engine needs to run So my question is, what is all of this stuff, and do I need it? This box connects to the computer harness and lives under the battery tray in a Z31. I have no idea what this is, I think it's usually in the engine compartment. These things are in the wiring heading back to the tail lights and fuel pump, the one has some sort of circuit board in it. This white plastic box is near the tail lights. SO do I need any of this junk?