I am waiting on a set of SLP headers and the installation kit. Are there any precautions or part substitutions I can make to avoid header leaks?
Thanks,
Chuck

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87 Formula 350 13.94@96.67
98 Z28 1LE 13.15@107.59
1LE Owners Association

 

fel-pro header gaskets
lock washers under the bolts

 

I think I am in trouble now.

 

Phillip - Did I forget to mention the possibility of ZZ4 heads/cam also Check your email

Thanks ODB I wonder if we ever met at Gateway. I used to be a Wednesday night regular back in '97-'98 in this car.



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87 Formula 350 13.94@96.67
98 Z28 1LE 13.15@107.59
1LE Owners Association

 

I used SCE Copper gaskets and Stage 8 Bolts (they are locking bolts) I have part numbers and everything at that second site in my sig.

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Eric Natzke
91 Firebird 305 TBI
"It Ain't Stock"
http://members.aol.com/j007golden/91firebird.html
For info on certain parts or mods go to the site below
http://members.aol.com/j007golden/modeval.html

 

SLP says not to use copper gaskets with stainless headers, go fel-pro.

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1986 Trans Am
305 TPI
"If it's not one thing, it's another!"
http://www2.hanover.edu/hierlmeier

 

Yep I have seen that comment to. I read what you have done to it on you web site, did you have the stall converter on the last time.
I want to put better heads on my car, but I need a daily driver first and the rear is going and I really want a new trans in it. This Friday might be my last time at the track.




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Rebuilt front end (4-20-2000)
Hotchkis springs,lower control arms,panhard rod, tie rod sleeves,strut tower brace.Wonder bar. Bilstein struts and shocks.
AGR steering box and pump.
Wheels; Simmons om-17, 17x9.5 with Firestone 275x40x17 FZ50 EP.
K&N air filters, airfoil. Alum drive shaft, MSD coil,MSD6AL.
NEW
Ported Plenum ,Ploshed inside runners
and intake ports, Gutted air box.
131,000 miles
Best times (run on drag radials)
60' 1.983 (2-11-02)ran a 13.879
1/8 8.839 (2-11-01)
1/4 13.851 (2-11-01)
mph 98.16 (2-11-01)
fasted I have had it
135 mph. (Apr-?-1998)

 

Phillip, the converter has been in there since October, though it only stalls about 300 rpm more than stock. It was worth about .3 ET! Remember the first time I took the car out to Ennis (July 3) when my best ET was 14.81! I've dropped that to 13.94. Almost a second and the lower intake/valve covers have (probably) never been off. Definately not since I owned it. I still have the stock '87 airbox/exhaust back to the muffler. The only thing I have done since I last saw you at Ennis is the aluminum driveshaft/hatch pulldown motor. I know it's not as fast as your '92, but is it supposed to be? Check your email.

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87 Formula 350 13.94@96.67
98 Z28 1LE 13.15@107.59
1LE Owners Association

 

I think I have seen that car there on test n tune nights.
How many years have you been running it there and is your father with you sometimes?

 

ODB - I am originally from St.Louis and spent many years in Mt. Vernon. I live in Texas for now but plan to move back the STL this winter. During the '97 season I maybe missed one Wednseday night brackets. Then the first half of '98 was about the same. I went for a couple Friday nights but I used to work most Friday's. My father was never with me but I often had a gal with me and sometimes a friend with a beat up grey S10. I always parked out by the very end of the fence separating the staging lanes from the lot (so I could pull into line quickly when my class was called This helped keep the motor cool/consistant). There was a gal named Linda that raced a ~89 charcoal Vette that always parked close by. What did you race back then? Did you ever go on Wednesdays?

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87 Formula 350 13.94@96.67
98 Z28 1LE 13.15@107.59
1LE Owners Association

 

Chuck, this is my camaro. Since 1994 it has had weld wheels and clear headlight covers.





[This message has been edited by The ODB (edited March 05, 2001).]

 

I raced the camaro there from 1990-1994, then again in 1999.
I doubt that we met but I probably have seen your car there. I go to watch even when I'm not racing.
ODB

 

I can't see the picture of it

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87 Formula 350 13.94@96.67
98 Z28 1LE 13.15@107.59
1LE Owners Association