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Member ID: Sirshredalot

Location: Michigan City, Indiana

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1980 Chevrolet Monza

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  • engine swap

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Last updated: Jan 26, 2008

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Wes’s Chevrolet Monza

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1980 Chevrolet Monza Spyder.
1964 327 with 4 valve relief flat top pistons.

TransDapt front motor mounts.
Weiand Tunnel ram
(2) 1850 Holley 600cfm carbs
- Lots of carburetor and intake mods
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CARBS
- 68 jets
- .018 restricted idle feed passages
- 33 Squirters (I think)
- Custom made accelerator pump cam profiles
- Milled choke horns
- Customized medium strength secondary springs
- 1:1 direct linkage with Heim joints
- Vacuum balanced secondaries

INTAKE
- Weiand 1984 tunnel ram
- Divided upper plenum
- Contoured transition from upper plenum to lower
- Tapered lower 2/3 runners
- Ported/epoxied to match heads

camshaft:
222/222 @ .50, .447/.447 @ .50
ERSON full roller 1.5 ratio rocker arms with polylocks and studs
Older Pro-topline heads w/ 180cc runners, 64cc chambers, and 2.02/1.60 valves.
.018 compressed steel head gaskets to make roughly 9.5:1 compression.

Th350 trans with shift kit, soon to recieve a Hughes 3500 pro-street converter.
Custom sheet metal flat dash and sheet metal fabricated console for B&M Shifter.

This is the work in progress

Sirshredalot's 1980 Chevrolet Monza Michigan City, IN Customized with Hooker Header, Weiand Intake, MSD Ignition - 1

This what it was before

Sirshredalot's 1980 Chevrolet Monza Michigan City, IN Customized with Hooker Header, Weiand Intake, MSD Ignition - 2

This is the finished product with Holley and Quickfuel regulators, Edelbrock regulator brackets, 3/8" aluminum fuel line, And fabricated linkage. All fed by an edelbrock Victor fuel pump (130gph, 10psi).

Sirshredalot's 1980 Chevrolet Monza Michigan City, IN Customized with Hooker Header, Weiand Intake, MSD Ignition - 3

Car has an 8 gallon RCI fuel cell with 1/2" lines feeding to the front then splitting into 3/8" lines to the carbs.

Car is also recieving a differential swap to a Toyota 8" with 3.90 gears...will have 8.5" wide, 26" tall tires.
Hoping to get a new set of SPOHN rear lower control arms for the swap.
Car will also receive an 8 point roll cage as well as 2x3" Subframe connectors with a crossmember for the torque arm as well as a crossmember in the rear to tie the car together from side to side.

Engine is held in place by the Trans-Dapt motor mounts and the exhaust gases are dumped into a set of Hooker 2129 Super competition headers. 1 3/4" primaries into 3" collectors, into 18" long 3" ID collector extensions, into 2 1/2" turbo mufflers with turn downs right behind the doors.

Ultimate goal is an 11.99 ET....with no parts on the track.

God bless

Sirshredalot's 1980 Chevrolet Monza Michigan City, IN Customized with Hooker Header, Weiand Intake, MSD Ignition - 4

Sirshredalot's 1980 Chevrolet Monza Michigan City, IN Customized with Hooker Header, Weiand Intake, MSD Ignition - 5

Sirshredalot's 1980 Chevrolet Monza Michigan City, IN Customized with Hooker Header, Weiand Intake, MSD Ignition - 6

Sirshredalot's 1980 Chevrolet Monza Michigan City, IN Customized with Hooker Header, Weiand Intake, MSD Ignition - 7

Sirshredalot's 1980 Chevrolet Monza Michigan City, IN Customized with Hooker Header, Weiand Intake, MSD Ignition - 8

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Location: Michigan City, Indiana