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Since I haven't talked a lot about the ZL1 Corvette, I figured that I'd take an opportunity to chat about one of the meanest cars ever built by man kind, this car was most certainly at the top of the food chain as far as muscle cars and sports cars built in the USA during the 1960's, well this one had a very short run at the end of the 1960's, or in 1969, what I mean by short is there were only two of them ever built.

The ZL1 engine was conceived of to drag race the 1969 Camaro in the NHRA, and 69 ZL1 engines were put in to 1969 Camaro's only, the NHRA had a rule, that if you wanted to race in the stock class, that the car that you raced had to be a factory production model, and to be a production car the manufacture had to build at least 50 of that particular model, thus the ZL1 Camaro was born.

But back to the task at hand, the 1969 ZL1 Corvette, this was probably the wildest production car ever built, the Zl1 engine was an all aluminum 427 CID big block Chevrolet, and this cut about 300 pounds off the weight of the car, so you can imagine what that would do for it's ¼ mile times, the engine was rated from the factory at 430 hp, but actually made about 625 hp on the dyno, and a 1969 Corvette was around 3200 pounds, this would mean that the car was capable of about 11.18's in the ¼ mile. In street dress, I don't have a time with open exhaust and slicks on the car, but you could probably add about 1 second with a good driver.

This car was built to impress, and that it did, there were a white ZL1 and a yellow one built, in I think it was 1989, if I'm not mistaken, the government seized the yellow one in a drug raid, in which the owner went to prison, they proceeded to auction the car their estimated value of the car was $500,000, but they sold it for the minimum reserve of $300,000 to a very lucky winner, and the white one I'm not sure where it is, but it's out there somewhere, now you hear the Ford guys and the Mopar guys tell you all the time, how their cars beat down the Chevy's, but not this one boys.

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Kustom Syndrome Is Spreading!

There is a disease with no cure that is spreading. It's hard to tell who around you may have this Syndrome and it is contagious, so you never know when you might catch it. You may be out in public one day and you sit down next to some guy who looks normal through you feel there is something different about him and you have a small conversation and when you get home later you find out you caught it!

            It is mostly caught at Car Shows, Bike Shows and Drag Races. You attend one of these shows for your first time as a spectator, you see the rows of nice Hot Rods and Muscle cars with their custom metal flake and candy paint jobs, pro street tires and narrow rear ends, and pinstripping. Maybe even a few of the cars are doing burnouts and your see the big V8s lined up side by side, getting ready to race down the ¼th mile! You spend all day hearing loud engines reving with their rumbling sound and seeing rows of custom Bobbers, Choppers and Hot Rods that  when you get home at the end of the day you realize you've caught the syndrome!

            If you are younger you may start to realize it when you are in your room and you see your Hot Wheels and Matchbox Cars in your room. After a while of playing with them,  you start to think that they aren't good enough anymore.  You think these cars need a custom paint job, and blower, drag tires, etc.

Maybe if you are older you are in the car driving home and you pass the Harley dealership on the way home that you pass everyday. You look at the stock Harley's that you have seen many times before and this time while looking you think about Chopping the rear fender and putting on a smaller Gas Tank, different front end, maybe some new Handle Bars and white wall tires just a different bike and you start day dreaming the build for the next 15 mins long after the light had already turned green.

Maybe you went a Drag Race when you were younger and while you were coming home from the Drags riding in the back of your parents SUV you stop at the light. While you are stopped you look out your window seeing the annoying ricer next you reving his fart sounding engine and you  wish you had a Big Block Chevy, or Hemi Mopar or Ford so you could leave that ricer far behind you. If you had that car you would race it every week to become king of the strip.

                        So now you have this Syndrome and you find yourself everyday thinking of what you what do to that car you see on Speed Channel, or that stock EVO powered Harley your neighbor has down the street or if you see a car in google you think about how you would Chop it and put a bigger motor in it.  Everytime you see a car now you think like this and you will think like this forever unless your girlfriend happens to find the Cure for it but until then you do find yourself doing this everyday and it never goes away.

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wher can i find a bellhousing for a 70 dodge pickup with a big block?

or any mopar big block bellhousing for that matter for np435,535, or the A833 4spd or 3spd OD but mainly looking for the 70 dodge pickup bellhousing with the hydraulic clutch anything from a 361 or up will work (361 383 400 426 440 or any old hemi 60's or 70's. anything after 1978 would have to be a 400 it's the only big block dodge used after 78

go to car-part.com they have a database of 86 million parts nationwide i checked their site and they do have some !

Mopar® Headed to Thunder Mountain for 31st Annual Mile-High NHRA Nationals
Mopar®, Chrysler Group LLC's service, parts and customer-care brand, will join thousands of Mopar drag-racing fans as they roll into Bandimere Speedway in Morrison, Colo., for the 31st Annual Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals, July 23â25.

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