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Re: [oletrucks] Soup that Chev!

To: J Forbes <jforbes@primenet.com>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Soup that Chev!
From: antonio <antonio@innercite.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:37:07 -0800
This is wierd, I just saw the same magazine you are 
mentioning a used book store in Mesa, AZ.
Maybe I'll go back tomorrow and buy it.

Antonio
Quoting J Forbes <jforbes@primenet.com>:

> Hi...
>
> At the local swap meet this morning, I found 7 Hot
> Rod magazines from the 50s and 60s.  Ten bucks for
> all of them.
>
> The May, 1955 issue has a neat story titled "Soup
> That Chev!".  Written by Racer Brown, it's about how
> to hot rod the new Chevy truck 6 cylinder 261
> engine.  They bought a new engine from the dealer
> for $349, and proceeded to put it on the dyno, and
> increase the power with the "normal" modifications.
> They added a Corvette dual exhaust manifold (one
> piece casting) which cost $18 at the dealer.  Also,
> a dual carb intake, with two 1 bbl Stromberg carbs.
> These mods gave a 22 horsepower increase.  Then they
> milled and ported the head, for another 11 hp.  A
> "3/4 race" cam netted another 10 hp.  Boring it an
> eighth of an inch (and upping the compression by
> half a point) added 8 more hp, and putting in a
> really wild cam, and a triple carb setup, got the
> power up to 197 hp at 4500 rpm.  The last two mods
> get on the ragged edge of streetability, as the cam
> is pretty wild, and the intake is not heated.
>
> There's also a bit of discussion of cams and
> lifters, as well as distributor gears.  Chevy
> changed the cam material in the early 50s, going
> from steel to cast iron, and the lifters went from
> chilled iron to hardenable iron.  If you mix the
> types, it will wipe out the cam and lifters!  The
> distributor gear material also needs to match the
> camshaft material.
>
> Neat reading.  Maybe my son Gary will want to hop up
> his 235, it sounds like fun! and safer than a 400 hp
> big block   :)
>
> Jim F
> 59s in AZ
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