cherokeefan_1
NAXJA Forum User
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- North idaho
Not sure why you had such issues with heat boiling the gas in a 69 Camaro. I've run 800hp in a big block stroker duster, 500hp in a Sbc Chevelle. 450hp in a 454 in my 70 elcamino that ran a Holley 850 with 1 7/8 hooker headers with a 3 core copper/brass, no shroud and road and drag raced it and never had issues like that. I could sit in 100 degree dead stopped traffic and might break 200, maybe. I best on that thing hard. Redlined first and second 50% of the time it shifted. I daily drove that over 30 miles to work with 3.73 gears and a th400. If your Camaro is running that hot either it has some serious hp or a serious problem.
On the hood venting. I'm on the fence. The science is sound for not proping the hood, think a cowl hood off said Camaro or Chevelle, they pull in cold low pressure air from the bottom of the windshield. You would think with the airflow coming through the radiator would offset the possible air coming back into the engine compartment due to this low pressure zone, I don't know. What I do know, is, in my 70 Chevelle I went from a flat hood to a fiberglass cowl hood that was just open at the windshield and my front end was no longer "getting light" at over 120 mph. I assume because air was flowing through the cowl over the roof giving some down force. Odd as it also cut about 40lbs off the front of the car.
On the hood venting. I'm on the fence. The science is sound for not proping the hood, think a cowl hood off said Camaro or Chevelle, they pull in cold low pressure air from the bottom of the windshield. You would think with the airflow coming through the radiator would offset the possible air coming back into the engine compartment due to this low pressure zone, I don't know. What I do know, is, in my 70 Chevelle I went from a flat hood to a fiberglass cowl hood that was just open at the windshield and my front end was no longer "getting light" at over 120 mph. I assume because air was flowing through the cowl over the roof giving some down force. Odd as it also cut about 40lbs off the front of the car.