[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

[Greg84]

If your power goals are 350-400hp and gobs of torque you'll be happy with the TPI setup.

I'll take as much as I can get, but I'd be more than happy with anything over 300!

[Sidney]

Greg,

If you will allow me to add my 2 cents to your thread: Build your car to an existing class and set of rules. I've seen many builds over the years that don't fit anywhere when it came time to move to wheel to wheel racing. (Been doing this for 15 years!) You need to spend your money on seat time and not mods. CMC rules limit rear wheel horsepower (RWHP) to 230 or 260 for CMC2. Trust me...that's enough to get the juices flowing. After playing in the CMC crowd and you still have the desire for more HP and to spend more money then you can always move up to AI or AIX.

My suggestion...build it to NASA CMC rules, go through our HPDE program, then if you want...move to racing. We just built a 3rd gen with an LT1 for CMC2 that we recently sold that will be going through the first Comp school. We also have (3) other 305 carb cars in CMC and a buddy with a 4th gen LT1 up in the Madison area. We are also helping with the build of a 4th gen LT1 that will be in HPDE for the next year or so. If you need any help with your build...we've been there and done that!

Check out www.NasaMidwest.com for more info and our schedule but feel free to PM me for my email and phone number.

Good luck on your build,

Sidney Franklin
Bloomington, IL
NASA Midwest
CMC #64