Page 1: Old Ventura and other cars
Page 2: New Ventura
Page 3: Me and Family

This is my Ventura. Sadly, I wrecked it and am in the process of building another one. The new one should be done sometime this winter. This one has a 355. The new one will have a 496. Here are all the specs of the old car:

355 10:1 compression
Vortec heads
Performer RPM intake manifold
Holley 650 DP square bore mech. secondary carb
Comp Cams XE268H cam (224 230 @.050 .477 .48 lift)
Hooker comp. 1 5/8" headers with cutouts
GMPP HEI distributor

700R4 transmission 1900 stall
8.5" 10 bolt 3.90 gears and posi
South Side Machine lift bars (now owned by Jegs)
Subframe connectors

Based on other dynoed combos, it is probably around 375hp 400 ft lbs.

For larger pictures, go to www.hotrodders.com, and look in my photo album (firestones photo album) keep clicking on the picture until it stops getting bigger. Go to the site, and click on "photo album" at the top right of the page. Then click on "search", it is about 1/2 way down on the right side above the pictures. Enter "firestone" under search by username.

This picture is before the headers

Not a whole lot changed here but the paint
Guages and the sterio are the main changes here

Ignore the first grade hand writing. These pictures were done for a school project and I added that comment at the last second... and I have a first graders handwriting.

Here are some more pics of some of my dads cars

This is a 1969 firebird here are the specs
358 14.7:1 compression
Brodix 11x heads ported
Super Victor intake
Crane solid roller 274 282 @.050 ~.660 lift
2" headers

Made 600hp at 7900 RPM
Ran 7.15 in the 1/8th (roughly 11.2 in the 1/4)
Ran 6.29 on a 100 shot (roughly a 9.9 in the 1/4)

This is our 1969 camaro

331
ported iron eagle 200cc heads
11.5:1 compression
not sure of cam size, but probably around 250-260 @.050
Victor jr intake
heddman hustler headers
glide with a 5000 stall
5.13 gears

ran 7.45 in the 1/8th (around 11.7 in the 1/4)
we went to a turbo 400 and a 4000 stall. It feels faster, but It has not been to the track with the new setup.

Here is our Nova. No motor now, but a pump gas small block 434 is in the works.

This is another 1969 firebird we had, but it is sold now.

Here is the wrecked ventura