Thinking about purchasing a gear drive, because it sounds cool. They arent too much noisy ones at summit for bout $140, how hard is it to do? Thanks

 

Pretty easy...

Fortunately, also pretty easy to get rid of, when you get sick of people laughing at you for being a poseur. Kind of like when I was about 5 yrs old I guess it was, and I discovered putting baseball cards in the spokes of my tricycle. I thought that was THE.MOST.BADA$$ thing I had ever done. Didn't take long though to notice the chuckles and the "isn't that little boy 'cute'" (I HATED being called "cute") comments from people watching me go by. Took me less than a week to pass through that phase and grow up a little bit. I'm kind of glad I learned that lesson before I got a car and didn't make this same stupid mistake you're talking about. Pointlessly loud exhaust on a slow car (or truck....) falls into the same category, except that it actively ANNOYS people instead of merely amusing them the way little-boy "look at me" empty gimmicks like gear drives do.

 

Why would one care if it annoys other people? If you have to take notice of other peoples likes and disclikes...sheesh.

And no, a gear drive is not a poser thing. I have milodon drives on several engines, they work extremely well, are not too noisy, easy to swap cams or advance/retard them, doesn't get sloppy over time especially with high spring pressures.

 

Didn't say anything anywhere about gear drives annoying anybody.

What I ACTUALLY said was

as an example of carrying the same type of juvenile show-off behavior to a level that exceeds being merely amusing (like gear drives) and reaches the level of annoyance.

Gear drives in a race car with high spring pressures and a need to tune the cam timing are one thing. Gear drives just stuck off into some basic stock-ish ordinary street motor like the OP's 87 carb 305 (LG4 I would guess), are something else entirely... STRICTLY poseur.

I'm advising the OP not to do it so that he doesn't have to endure people who DO know what they're doing, laughing at him and his display of immaturity. Conspicuoulsy acting like a little kid isn't the best way in the world to generate respect, not for himself, nor for our cars in general (which already suffer from an image of obnoxious little-kid attention-demanding annoyance whether deserved or not).

 

I'm not a fan of gear drives but I have always wondered if they set of knock sensors like I have heard? I dont run either so I wouldnt know!
Just wondering??

 

The OP should build a dual carb high rise intake with a big fake blower style hood scoop too.