December 2012 Chevy High Performance Table of Contents

From the December, 2012 issue of Chevy High Performance

Tech

Steps
Harwood’s fiberglass for a lightened load.

Master Blaster
A different type of stripping.

Ready for Road & Track
Installing a Gear Vendors Overdrive into one slick Tri-Five.

Hotheaded
A Brodix top end for big heat.

Special Event

Top tier!
The second annual Chevy High Performance Street Machine Challenge.

Holiday Gift Guide

Stocking Stuffers
Holiday Gift Guide.

Features

Blown Bandit
Eric Gustafson’s supercharged 8.5 outlaw.

Lesson Learned
Bryan Goff’s first car grows up with a Pro Touring attitude.

Black Speed
Mighty small-block makes big-block horsepower.

Super-Fly Fifty-Five
Scott Miller’s well-crafted shoebox.

Deparments

Shop Talk
Editor H talks about four-door fun.

Performance Q&A
Our resident tech guru, Big Mac, tells all

Tool Bin
Thirteen-drawer roller cabinet.

Parts Rack
The latest offerings for your street machine.

How It Works
Swapping out that four-barrel for an eight-stack induction can net massive performance, and Inglése explains how it’s done.

Rides
The latest batch of cool street machines submitted by you.

Garage
Letters, news, and everything else we couldn’t fit anywhere else.

Community Comments

REED-O (01/30/12 06:04 PM)

I HAVE A 1998 CHEVY K 3500 4X4 WITH A 5.7 ENGINE. EVERY TIME I CHANGE THE OIL I FIND A SMALL PIECE OF WIRE LOOKING METAL STUCK TO IT. ABOUT 1/4 IN LONG. LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD I WAS WONDERING WHAT COMBO (CAM,COMP RATIO,HEADS,HEADERS,ETC) I SHOULD TRY AND GET. I WAS THINKING A 383 WITH 9.5 TO 10 TO 1 COMPRESSION RATIO. THIS TRUCK IN SUMMERTIME PULLS A TRAILER WITH A PULLING TRACTOR ACROSS MICHIGAN AND IN WINTER HAULS FIREWOOD AND PLOWS SNOW. I WANT AS MUCH TORQUE AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT GOING BROKE. I WOULD LIKE TO MAINTAIN AS MUCH OF FACTORY DRIVABILITY AS POSSIBLE. WILL THE FACTORY HEADS WORK WITH A NEW SHORT BLOCK. I PURCHASED A BANKS POWER PACK FOR SIMILAR TRUCK AND WAS VERY PLEASED BUT THEY DONT MAKE THAT SYSTEM ANYMORE. ANY AND ALL HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
REED-O IN MICHIGAN