[Greg84]

Thought I'd throw up a little intro post. I'm Greg, from Wisconsin. I picked up a '90 camaro a couple months ago, its currently in about as many pieces as it can be in my garage (a hollow shell with doors attached right now!), putting it together to be a weekend toy/track day car. I've been road racing motorcycles for the past couple years, last year burned me out a little bit chasing points and only going to 4 different tracks all season. This year I'm just doing a couple of those races for fun and hopefully some track days in the car too just for some variety.

I want to have the car done before the end of june, so that should give me time to get to a couple events this year at least! Maybe I'll see some of you at events in the midwest.

Here's the only picture I've taken of the car so far from a couple weeks ago. Pardon the crappy cell phone picture quality..

(IMG:http://www.cooltruckparts.com/pics/noengine.jpg)

This post has been edited by Greg84: Feb 17 2010, 09:36 PM

[1meanZ]

Well the TPI is great for torque, so if you build the rest of the long block with that in mind you'll be set. many TPI engines are dogs because they are simply mis-matched combinations. You may already know all of this so I'll stop preaching now.

I don't know what your power goals are, but my TPI 305 was a mover for what it was. With ported vette aluminum heads, ported intake, mild cam and a full exhaust on the STOCK TUNE it ran 13.70@101mph with 3.23 gears and a 2.2 60ft. Similar tricks on a TPI 350 can yield a pretty lively combination. If your power goals are 350-400hp and gobs of torque you'll be happy with the TPI setup. Here is some footage a few years ago after my wedding pictures were taken. I'm pedaling to keep it off the rev limiter but I still tag it if you listen close.

(IMG:http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w178/1meanz/th_305power.jpg)

(IMG:http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w178/1meanz/305tracks.jpg)

This post has been edited by 1meanZ: Mar 2 2010, 01:10 PM