Ross,
Thanks for printing that. That copy has the fuzzy picture of Jamie and me in the backgroud. They also took photos of us in the car, but those were never published. At least some hear may enjoy the 1970 Boss 429 in the background.
The November 1992 Hot Rod has 15 seperate pictures on the cover, and one is specifically of the front end of the Camaro, and the second is a hood up engine shot, plus the layout in the magazine.
The 1992 issue of Hot Rod, Hot Chevies has a medium sized picture of a silver with blue flames 1955 Nomad, a tiny picture of the "NEW" 1993 Camaro, and Jamies car is a large picture dead center on the cover, plus a layout in that magazine.
That car is a real DZ 1969 Z-28, not a fake, it has the RS package and the rare Enduro front bumper option.
I have a factory Chevy 427 block in my barn that was the engine before the ones in the photos. That engine had 11.25 to 1 base compression with the blower at 14 percent overdriven and split two cylinders the legth of the bore.
The engine that was in it when photos were shot was an aftermarket iron block, it was 0.080 over. As I remember that block was supposed to be good for 0.180 over. It had the same stroke as a factory 427 or 396 (same stroke). The supercharger was still 14 percent overdriven, it had the mechanical hat then, as he later detuned it with a BDS electronic hat. The cam was a 0.690 gear driven roller. It had iron heads on it that were bought off of the Skoal Bandit pulling truck when they switched to aluminum. The intakes were a 2.40 Hemi unit, and the cylinders had to be notched even at 0.080 over to clear them. It has a complete MSD-7A system, which was the hottest available in 1992. The MSD was set up with multistage retards, and it had one of 3 ever made at the time, 10,000 RPM above the blower, 2-stage 650 horsepower plates. (the other two units built like this were on drag boats) The plate had spray bars down the length from front to back that could be jetted up to 325 HP and operated off of a shifter thumb button, as long as the engine was at a high enough RPM to handle the load as controled by an MSD RPM module, the second stage was fogger nozzles on both sides of the plate settup for a 325 HP hit and was controled by a second MSD RPM module only if the system was armed.
My orriginal plan had been to tub my orriginal blue 1969.5 "G" code Boss 302 and drop my supercharged cammer in it and show together. He would have the Chevy street version of the Chevy 1969 Trans-Am car, tubbed and with a supercharged version of a Chevy 427, and I would have the Ford street version of the Ford 1969 Trans-Am car, tubbed and with a supercharged version of a Ford 427 Cammer, but he ended up selling his car before I ever got to cut up my Boss body. Would have been alot of fun though
Roger
