Topping off the mill is an Edelbrock intake and Holley 750-cfm carb.
I also reshaped the combustion chambers." After that Mike assembled the heads with Comp Cams valvesprings, retainers, locks and valve seals. I spent quite a bit of time on the valve bowls and short turns. I completely ported the exhaust side, but I only gasket matched the intake ports. As he told us, "I had never ported heads before, but decided I would give it a shot. When Mike got the unassembled heads home, he just couldn't resist. The 461 heads got some love as well, in the form of a Serdi three-angle valvejob and ARP screw-in rocker studs to replace the pressed-in factory units. Finally, the Keith Black Hypereutectic 18cc dished slugs were slid into the eight cylinders. The factory cast crank was ground and polished and the rods received some ARP Wave Loc bolts. For extra strength, he splurged on some ARP main bolts to replace the stockers. All his collected parts were then sent to the machine shop, where the block was hot-tanked and magnafluxed before being align-honed, bored, decked, and finally torque-plated and honed. Mike found a core 400 short-block for $200, and some digging through his hangar produced some old 461 Camel Hump heads and stock 350 rods. With a budget of around $3,000, he started scoping out ways to build a small-block engine capable of getting him into the 11s on 91-octane pump gas. With the old drivetrain liquidated, it was time to start putting go-fast parts back into the Camaro. Not having my wife really liking any of my cars, I knew what I had to do: find a Camaro." With that in mind, Mike began the hunt for a suitable starting point. My wife, Candy, has never really liked any of them, but every time she saw a f irst-generation Camaro go by, she would 'ooh and ahh' even if they weren't that great. As he told us, "Over the years I have owned some nice cars ('67 SS Nova, '70 SS Chevelle, '65 Malibu, among others). We say "needed" because, as a married man, Mike knows that a happy wife can make the car building experience much better. Mike Nordahl needed to build a Camaro, but he didn't want to take out a second on his house to get one. By investing your time and scrounging for bargains, you can end up in a slick ride for a surprisingly short stack of green. Seeing so many deep-pocket cars is almost enough to make your average car guy think of taking up stamp collecting. Walk through a car show and you're bombarded by mega-dollar rides trying to outdo (and outspend) the next guy.
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