New to Stock - Buying an 85 Camaro G/H/I??

[Allen Sherman]

Originally Posted by HR9121

It's funny how things escalate on here! The man asked how much to be competitive and all the sudden he's building a 20 grand bullet to go hunt down Chris Butcher with.

I wasn't insinuating he needed to build a $20,000 motor, I was simply stating a fact in response to a post made on this thread that said you don't have to spend that much to have a 305 that's fast.

[Whalen3186]

Originally Posted by rod butcher

Mine seems to run pretty good in the heat.

Your car runs good everywhere! What I meant by that was that the smaller ci motors fall off a little bit more in the heat than bigger ci motors.

[Bob Don]

Originally Posted by rod butcher

Allen is correct in his pricing. I think if I was offered $25000. for my motor I would pass.

Rod Butcher

Oh well, there goes my offer...(lol)

[John Scott]

If I were you, I would read all the posts from "jaime2370"

[jamie2370]

I wasn't going to respond to this post but I will just to clear the air. If it doesn't sell by the end of next week I will send the motor to Greg Rowe with Jim Lewis heads and intake, reinstall with a th200 2.90 low and ask around $20,000 for it. You could spend about $1500 on the shortblock for pistons and rings and go run 60 under. So lets see??
$9000
+$1500
=$10,500 for a decent stocker............or.............$20,000 for one that probably still won't out run Butcher's car, mainly because there is not another 305 that can.......
So for all you people that want to bad mouth the car, especially the ones that haven't even read the ad...........I honestly could care less if the car sells. My brother and I are going to get Dad's stocker back going so he can do it one more time, so this car is going to sit until that happens. Ok enough, I will go now.

[Johnny Rod]

Wow !!!!!!!!!! is all I can say. You guy's are a bunch of negative jerk off's . This is why we don't have any new racers in our class . I read all the posts It would scare anyone away. That's not how to build our class. My advise!!!! Buy the car looks like a great deal . And surround your self with positive racers and have fun. And stop asking advice from keyboard racers .

[Greg Hill]

I would also encourage you to buy the car as is. You could send the motor you have to any number of engine builders and get it fixed up for less than the 10k price I'm seeing on here. For example if you have a good block crank and rods and the heads aren't butchered up, you should be able to get someone to put Pistons in it and get it going for 5-7k easy. Maybe have someone look at the trans for you also. Go ahead and get your feet wet.

[Johnny Rod]

Amen Greg!!!

[Allen Sherman]

Originally Posted by jamie2370

I wasn't going to respond to this post but I will just to clear the air. If it doesn't sell by the end of next week I will send the motor to Greg Rowe with Jim Lewis heads and intake, reinstall with a th200 2.90 low and ask around $20,000 for it. You could spend about $1500 on the shortblock for pistons and rings and go run 60 under. So lets see??
$9000
+$1500
=$10,500 for a decent stocker............or.............$20,000 for one that probably still won't out run Butcher's car, mainly because there is not another 305 that can.......
So for all you people that want to bad mouth the car, especially the ones that haven't even read the ad...........I honestly could care less if the car sells. My brother and I are going to get Dad's stocker back going so he can do it one more time, so this car is going to sit until that happens. Ok enough, I will go now.

Hey Jamie if any of the responses I made came off negatively I sure didn't intend them that way, in fact I talked to Dustin about your car and told him what a good deal I thought it was and that the potential is definitely there. My only response I made in reference to the $20000 engine cost was a basis of starting from scratch, I think you can take the pieces you have, buy the Jim Lewis heads, put the right rings and pistons in it and make it extremely competitive for under $10,000. Hopefully you and Dustin make a deal because I truly believe any new blood we get in the stock and super stock ranks is a great thing for our sports future.

Allen

[Ron Middleton]

it's amazing how far off a thread can get from it's origin. I too think it's a good price and with some effort could be a very competitive car at a reasonable cost. It will not be cheap but other than some dime rocket cars I don't think any stocker is cheap any more.