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Old 11-21-2011, 06:49 AM
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Default Re: 1969 Smokey Yunick Camaro

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Hotrodsled</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: John Brown</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Car show cars all make more horsepower than ordinary cars. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img] </div></div>

L-O-L!

And as near as my research can show, it was a canted valve combination. Not a hemi. But what do I know?

Wayne </div></div>

that exactly right. i talked to smokey years ago about this head set up for about 2 hours. he said himself that these heads generally made 10-15hp less then what the tracos were making at that time period. he told me he had hundreds if not a thousand man hours into this design only to turn out to be fruitless.
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