Joe Sorenson

[Mike Pearson]

[QUOTE=Mark Yacavone;705455]First off Congrats to Joe and Hal
Well deserved for two guys who actually assemble their own engines and transmissions.

About the hood }
I have a good friend who bought a used Camaro (68, not 69). It was ordered with a 295 / 350 engine, Powerglide trans, column shifter, bench seat, and small dog dish style hubcaps .
It was badged as a SS car, but sure didn't look it from a few feet away. .
Anyway , it DID have the raised hood with the chrome simulated ports inserts on it.
I wonder if the original buyer knew you could un-order the heavier SS hood?
Again this was a 68 car. Interesting !
Also , we raced a 68 Chevy II ,that was ordered as a big block car ,with rubber floor mats . We ran it as a 350 /295 PG combo. Of course it had to have the SS hood on it.

As a matter of fact, as long as I've been racing, which is more than a few years, anything that came from GM @ 295 horse or more had to have a SS hood , or cowl induction on Camaros

Again, very interesting ...Who knew?[/QUOTE

I race a 1968 Camaro. I have a 350/295 engine and a 327/275 engine. NHRA tech told me that I had to have the SS hood when running the 350. I could and do run the 327 with the SS hood or I could run a flat hood with the 327. That was many years ago. Maybe they changed their interpretation now days. I have never actually weighed them to see how much lighter the flat hood is compared to the SS hood. 67 and 68 can not run a cowl hood. I tried that and was rejected.