All Chevy Performance Volume 2, Issue 23 - November 2022

Every so often useless thoughts get tangled in my head—most I’m unable to delete. They just stick there taking up valuable space. Lately, I’ve been thinking about all the super high-end Chevy muscle cars that get unveiled at SEMA and debut at the Detroit Autorama, Grand National Roadster Show, and other high-profile events. Some of these cars get tons of promotion prior to the show, only to never be seen or heard from once the awards are handed out. This isn’t true with all cars, but it seems many of them don’t get driven much further than up the ramp and into the trailer on the final day of the show. I know that hundreds of thousands of dollars go into these cars, with some reaching six figures, so that makes…

1. ANGLE MASTERS Wilwood now offers a high-performance master cylinder with angled reservoirs specifically designed for GM cars and trucks with angled boosters. These 1- or 1 ⅛-inch bore master cylinders are precision-machined and engineered to deliver volume and pressure for upgraded brakes, with reservoirs designed for easy filling without spilling. The lightweight, high-pressure die-cast aluminum body Compact Remote Tandem Master Cylinder uses Wilwood’s proven internal design and adds all-new 7.8-ounce front and 4.7-ounce rear angled reservoirs. For more information, contact Wilwood Disc Brakes by calling (805) 388-1188 or visit wilwood.com. 2. PREMIUM CAMARO QUARTERS Auto Metal Direct (AMD) now offers new premium quarter-panels for the ’69 Camaro. The latest re-tooled versions will save you time in fit and finish as AMD focused on areas that have troubled these quarter-panel reproductions in the past, like…

@TavisHighlander TavisHighlander.com Vehicle Builder: JABZ Kustoms Vehicle Owner: Ray Carnes, Waynesboro, Georgia John Barefield of JABZ Kustoms is building up a wicked Camaro convertible that should go, stop, and turn as good as it looks. The go part will be handled by a blown LSA built by Bo’s Machine and will be backed up with a 4L80E. Handling will be controlled with a Speedway G-Comp front and rear suspension with AFCO coilovers. Stopping this red missile is up to the big 14- and 13-inch Wilwood brakes with six- and four-piston calipers. Creating the slick look on the exterior starts with a bright red paintjob by Michael Barwick. From there, some 19-inch Race Line Nitros will be blacked out to match the rest of the trim. An Anvil carbon-fiber front bumper, lower valance, and notch spoiler…

Some might say 1970 was a monumental year for rock music, and much of it not good. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix both died at the age of 27, and the Beatles called it quits due to musical differences between Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Both continued on a musical path to highly successfully solo careers. Joplin and Hendrix–not so much. With the two most famous Beatles going their separate ways, their fans followed suit; some took the Lennon train, while others aligned with McCartney. Muscle car fans may not have given the music industry much thought at the time, nor did GM have a clue about an upcoming oil crisis that was a mere three years away, so the ’70 Chevelle came off the assembly line flexing every bit of…

We’re back with the final installment of building Chevrolet Performance’s all-new, 1,004hp ZZ632 crate engine. Previously, we detailed the short-block buildup, including the installation of its hydraulic roller camshaft. Focus now moves to the top end of the electronically controlled, port-injected, crank-triggered monster big-block, starting with the heads. For that step forward with our story, however, we need to step back in time to the mid ’80s. That’s when GM engineer Ron Sperry pushed up the sleeves on his Members Only jacket and got to work on a unique spreadport, straight-flow cylinder head that was intended for the Pro Stock wars. The design was a winner, with off-the-chart airflow capabilities, but by the time the first few sets of heads were cast and offered to racers, in 1988, NHRA had changed the…

“YEARS AGO, I BOUGHT A ’37 FORD COUPE, AND THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY LAST CAR PROJECT,” Norman Brown from Islamorada, Florida, states. “It was a Henry Ford all-steel body that was nicely chopped. I put a TCI chassis under it and, of course, a Chevy big-block for a ‘little’ motivation. Like I said, it was going to be my last build, but unfortunately it was wrecked in an accident!” That incident ended up changing Norman’s mind about his “last hot rod.” You see, there was something else out there that would bring him to the realization that his hot rodding story was far from over. Turns out another muscle ride was going to continue his saga by stealing his heart and getting him back in the garage to create…