Some Motion swag of my own.

[RichSchmidt]

I finally found a bunch of my old papers. Back in the day the owner of my 73 Camaro bought a mirrored dash cluster insert. When I bought the car in 1988,he gave me the receipt. It isn't anything crazy,but it is my own little piece of Motion performance.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Mobile%20Uploads/PART_1446072253297_20151028_142222_zpswb7ygpro.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Mobile%20Uploads/PART_1446072253297_20151028_142222_zpswb7ygpro.jpg .html)

It still shines up nice.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141003_122426_zpsfc52b1b6.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141003_122426_zpsfc52b1b6.jpg.html)
Back when I bought the car in 1989.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Car%20pics/powerslaveinterior9.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Car%20pics/powerslaveinterior9.jpg.html)

[njsteve]

That is too cool! Enough with the teaser, let's see the rest of the car!

Us Joysey guys gotta stick togeddah! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

[RichSchmidt]

Haha. The rest of the car is my daily driver. It started life as a plain Jane 307/th350/2.73 posi/F41 suspention car. It now has a 400 HP 400 small block,the same th-350,and it had 3.90's but I swapped in some 3.08's. I am building a good 200r4 for it so that I can put the 3.90's back in. I tubbed the car out back in the day,and un-tubbed the car using a clip from a 79,so now I need to put all the sheet metal and trunk floor back to a 1973.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141003_123731_zpscab67668.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141003_123731_zpscab67668.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141003_123921_zpsf8e269b8.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141003_123921_zpsf8e269b8.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141003_124205_zps6d7cd92d.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141003_124205_zps6d7cd92d.jpg.html)

[RichSchmidt]

The &quot;born with&quot; 307 in 1989


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Car%20pics/11.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Car%20pics/11.jpg.html)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Car%20pics/powerslaveengine9.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Car%20pics/powerslaveengine9.jpg.html)


The 307 lookalike today.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Car%20pics/enginepic2.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Car%20pics/enginepic2.jpg.html)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/newpaint3_zpseb6648c1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/newpaint3_zpseb6648c1.jpg.html)

Yup,it makes over 400 HP with the single horn air cleaner. I call this my street racer special setup.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Car%20pics/aircleaner6.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Car%20pics/aircleaner6.jpg.html)

[RichSchmidt]

Summer of 89. Between junior and senior year of high school.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Car%20pics/powerslave1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Car%20pics/powerslave1.jpg.html)


Summer of 91.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Car%20pics/powerslave98.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Car%20pics/powerslave98.jpg.html)

[RichSchmidt]

Just part of what I have to fix the rear clip.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Car%20pics/quarters2.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Car%20pics/quarters2.jpg.html)


Summer of 92. This is what happens when a 21 year old kid with big dreams and a bunch of cut off wheels gets in over his head.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Car%20pics/tubbed732.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Car%20pics/tubbed732.jpg.html)

BTW,this IS NOT a Motion car and has nothing to do with the invoice in my other tread. It just has my little piece of Motion performance on it.

[RichSchmidt]

Unfortunately,I had a little set back last month. Driving to work in a sleepy stupor,there was a little mishap. <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif

I rounded up all the parts to fix it,but just need some time.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Mobile%20Uploads/12017538_10206150159970799_1723215660988909628_o_z ps8tqs1pkc.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Mobile%20Uploads/12017538_10206150159970799_1723215660988909628_o_z ps8tqs1pkc.jpg.html)

[RichSchmidt]

After over 26 years,I am finally happy with the way it looks under the hood. The Motion &quot;Street racer special&quot; package ain't got nuthin on me. I would tell you how fast it is but I would have to kill ya. :-)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG-20141009-00010_zpskqycyp5d.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG-20141009-00010_zpskqycyp5d.jpg.html)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG-20141009-00011_zpswgapyseb.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG-20141009-00011_zpswgapyseb.jpg.html)

I am debating if I should hold out for the correct &quot;long&quot; L-88 hood,or just go with what I have. I already have 2 quarts of base ready to respray the front clip after the damage,so I might just make the leap.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/Car%20pics/get-attachment82_zps9995273f.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/Car%20pics/get-attachment82_zps9995273f.jpg.html)

[njsteve]

LOL, it's the Camaro cousin to my Gramma's 75 Firebird Esprit. Even the sleeper engine replacement! And the color!

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthrea...ojec#Post632706 (http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/632706/re-gramma-s-car-the-new-projec#Post632706)

Go with the L/88 hood. I love that style.

[Atuckman]

cool car. im a fan of L88 hood too

[RichSchmidt]

Haha Steve. Here is my Fire bird race car with an L-88 hood.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/MapleGrove2-1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/MapleGrove2-1.jpg.html)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v310/racer7391/done006.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/racer7391/media/done006.jpg.html)

[njsteve]

Just don't tell me there is a big block Chevy under that hood... <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/no.gif

[markinnaples]

2nd Gen Camaros and L-88 Hoods are perfect together.

[RichSchmidt]

Yeah Steve. I bought the car back in 1994 because I needed a shell to stick all the race parts from my 73 Camaro into. The car has been a Chevy powered race car almost all it's life. When I got it,it was a roller,but had already been made a street racing legend by that time. It had everything from a nitrous injected 454 under the hood,to a 10,000 rpm ex-pro stock 331 of reputed Jenkins fame under the hood in the decade or more before I bought it. I bracket race,and need to get 500+ maintence free runs out of a 600+ HP engine. I got over 700 runs out of my last 427 with nothing more than twice a year oil changes,and on timing chain,and the entire engine intake to pan cost about $6500. I couldn't never expect that out of a Pontiac engine,and certainly not for that kind of money. Once the 427 goes in the expro stock 70 Camaro that I am restoring,I may build the Firebird as a 1970 era Pontiac powered Nostalgia pro stocker. That would probably be more than a decade from now though.