RoadNoize :: Index http://www.roadnoize.com/modules/planet/index.php Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:05:50 +2000 ARTICLE @ XOOPS powered by FeedCreator http://www.roadnoize.com/modules/planet/images/planet.png RoadNoize :: Index http://www.roadnoize.com/modules/planet/ 80 15 XML for index page en admin at roadnoize dot com admin at roadnoize dot com Planet The Best Camaro Ever - The 1969 Camaro http://www.roadnoize.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/180 The Best Camaro Ever - The 1969 Camaro


If you love the 1969 camaro, you might be interested in a new site that Atkin Internet Enterprises has just launched, this site is designed to help people with their 1969 camaro, form restoration tips and tricks, to locating parts, form the aftermarket, or nos.




The idea behind this site is to give the diehard owners of 1969 camaros a place to go one the net to help them get their questions answered, and get their cars on the road, Atkin Internet Enterprises loves the 1969 Camaro, and we’ll do all we can to help you with your car.



David C. Atkin says that the 1969 camaro was one of Chevrolet’s rare moments of clarity, and should be remembered for time and all eternity, we feel that by giving people a place to discuss their 1969 camaro we can help this cause, the 1969 camaro became the most popular year ever built for a reason.


We feel that the 1969 camaros, and the owners of them need help with their cars, and we’re more then willing to help all we can, to us their has never been a more exciting muscle car built at any time in the history of the automotive industry.




Our new web site offers a blog and forums to help you in your quest for knowledge about the 1969 camaro, we try to cover most models o that were built, including the Yenko Camaro, the ZL1 Camaro, and many more, we are excited to help, so please check it out at http://69isfine.com we think that you’ll like it.


If your on a quest to gain knowledge about your 1969 camaro, there is no better place to start, we don’t charger for this service, it’s our way of giving back, for all that the camaro has done for us, don’t you owe yourself the opportunity to learn more about your car.


Now is the time to heighten your knowledge about the 1969 camaro, if your restoring one this could be just what you’ve been looking for, if your thinking of buying one, we discuss how to decode rpo numbers, vin numbers, engine casting numbers, and date codes.


We try to cover all the hot topics about the 1969 camaro, in hopes of helping you get the best deal on your car that you possibly can, if you know just a few simple things, you can save yourself a world of problems when buying your 1969 camaro.


We’d love you to have the best experience that you can when buying or restoring your 1969 camaro, and we’ll do what we can to help you with it.

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Source: http://autorevival.com/?p=222 ]]> Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:25:00 +2000 Muscle Cars - A Few Simple Tips To Build And Maintain Reliable Horsepower http://www.roadnoize.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/179 I don’t seem to remember writing on this subject before, so today I’ll attempt to give to some simple tips to help you get, and maintain more power out of your muscle car engine, believe me I have had some experience with this in the past with my own cars.



If you own a muscle car, it’s a constant effort to maintain the peak power from the engine, while getting the most efficient, and dependable service from your car, there are a lot of ways to do this, and all of them will produce good results for you, and your car, so if you know some other tips, please feel free to comment on this post and let all of our loyal readers know.



1. For our first tip we’ll begin with the most simple things possible.


1-1. A tune-up on your car, always maintain your car’s tuning, tuning includes but is not limited to.

1-2. New spark plugs that are gaped correctly.

1-3. Correct timing, this one is huge, it can make or break the dependability of your car, and will without a doubt make you lose power if not set right.

1-4. Make sure that your distributor cap and rotor are always in good shape, a cap in good shape will not have any burned contact points, or cracks in the housing of it, a rotor in good shape will not have a burned centrer, or end contact point.

1-5. Make sure that your distributor wires don’t have any cracks in them, or missing insulation on them, be sure that none of the spark plug boots are burned, if you find any of these things wrong replace the spark plug wires.

1-6. Always run a clean air filter on your car, a dirty air filter will make your car suck down more fuel, and you’ll gain no power for the extra fuel burning.


2. For the second tip I’ll talk about the oil in your car.



2-1.This is another very simple tip, you should always use the weight of oil that the manufacture of

your car recommends, not only will you get your peak performance, but you won’t lose your factory warranty, if your car has one.


3.Here I’ll talk about the fuel that you should use to run your car, this can get a bit complicated, so pay close attention.


3-1. The two biggest factors that weigh in to this decision are the compression ratio of your

engine, and the cam shaft that you have installed in it.

3-2. Of the two things you need to first look at your compression ratio, this the represented by a

number like 8:1, usually the more power that you’d like to make the higher this number

would go, the problem with this becomes the gas that we have access to these days

if you pushed it much above 10:1, it would become impossible to get gas for your engine

because you’d need more then the 92 octane that is available at the pump.

3-3. Your cam shaft, what you’d normally do to select your cam shaft is you’d decide what

compression ratio that you want to run, and match a cam shaft up to that, or the other way

around, it’s up to you, but remember that you can only get 92 octane fuel at the pump.


3-4. Obviously you could use alcohol to run your car, it is a better fuel, but it does burn about

30% faster then gasoline so you need to be prepared, alcohol is a high octane fuel, but

you can’t just decide to run it one day and go fill your car with it, you need to convert

your car to run on it, alcohol will eat any rubber fuel lines, and other rubber parts in

your fuel system, so you’d need to remove all rubber parts form your fuel system.


3-5. I would suggest that when your making the decision on cam, and compression ratio, you

should call the manufacture of the cam shaft that you want to purchase, and tell them

what your trying to achieve with your engine build, and use their recommendation for

cam and compression ratio, make sure that you tell them what fuel your going to run

your car on, these guys can be an immense help to you, and your car.

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Source: http://autorevival.com/?p=215 ]]> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:47:00 +2000 Car Restoration - What Should I Do http://www.roadnoize.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/178 This is a common question, after a person visits a restoration shop and is told that the only way to restore a car is to put it back to factory specs, to an extent this is a a true statement but only if you plan to sell the car at some point, but you could be smart and keep the old factory parts from the car.




I say it’s your car, and you should build it as you please, if your a purest then it’s possible that a full factory restoration is just what you want, but form my experience I’d say that you should make your car exactly what you want it to be, don’t hack it beyond recognition of course.



Most people go out and get a restoration, and then expect their car to perform just like the new cars do, it will never happen, if you want it to do that then t you’ll need to upgrade a few things, my suggestion is to first upgrade the motor to one of the new crate engines.


The reason I say that is simply this, if you upgrade to a new factory high performance engine, you’ll have the factory warranty to go along with the warranty that you get from the shop that does the work on your car, it’s like a double warranty.


Now that you have decided to upgrade the engine, you’ll need to be able to stop all that new found power that your car will have, and this means that you should think about upgrading your brake system to a more modern braking setup, they do work much better then the old stuff.


A good for instance is a 1970 Dodge charger, this car came from the factory with drum brakes all the way around the car, and you’d be lucky if you could get these things to stop the car, they eventually would, but if you need it to stop quick, you’d be out of luck.




To make that car stop better, it’s pretty easy to convert it to front disc brakes, or even four wheel disc brakes, and this would bring the car to an immediate halt, you’d decrease your stopping distance by leaps and bounds, and therefore make your car a lot safer.


Noe that you have the horsepower you want, and the stopping power that you need, you should think about upgrading your transmission to match the rest of your power train, or this could also cause huge problems for you too, it doesn’t matter if you like standard, or automatic transmissions.


You can have either on them built t to match your car, this all sounds well and good, but unless you upgrade your suspension to match all the previous work that you have done, it could all be in vane, if your unable to get that power to the ground, you can’t use it.


You need your suspension tuned for your car also, this will help your car get the traction that it needs to use the power that your car the the right way, it will also make your car handle much better then it would if you didn’t do this, you could get away with out this part, but I don’t recommend it.

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