Wheel hop is caused by spring wrap up. The spring actually tries to bend and load up, then it unloads as the wheel jumps off the ground. It continues to raise the pinion loading and unloading the spring as it hops. Anything that will keep the spring from loading will also eliminate wheel hop.
Some traction systems merely stop wheel hop, which doesn't help traction as much as it keeps the tire in contact with the ground. Other systems not only stop wheel hop by holding the pinion in place, (preventing spring loading) but also plant the rear harder to transfer weight to the rear and assist in traction. Cal Tracs, Lakewoods, and even the old Traction Masters, all did an excellent job of eliminating wheel hop and planting the tires.
The old Cobras, and Sunbeam Tigers came stock with Traction Master bars.

 

Took the car to Kooks Custom Headers today. They had me meet with some of the techs to go over how the exhaust system was to be installed. Very nice people. They had a number of interesting cars in their work bay. Everything from drag cars to street rods to SCCA race cars. Clint Boyer's '69 Camaro was there for an exhaust.









They asked if I had brought a car cover. Hadn't thought of that so, after driving home and helping my buddy unhook his trailer, I drove back with the car cover. I ended up in the sales manager's office talking about the car. We were discussing the exit for the exhaust and I told him I wanted it like my old exhaust where it exited straight down inside the rear fender areas. We went to my blog so he could see what the rear end looked like with my old exhaust.

I was also telling him about my thread on Nasty Z28 about the LS1 install. As he was scrolling down the photos, he came to the picture of the K & N intake in one of the posts above. "That's ugly" he said and I told him I felt the same but was having a difficult time coming up with something that will work. "Hell, let's build one for you!!" was his next comment. We then went out to the car, he grabbed some 3 1/2" pipe and we talked about how it should fit. He had one of his fabricators come over, talked to him a bit, and we had a plan. I am riding my motorcycle over there in the morning to take him the cone filter and the connectors. It will be polished stainless steel!! Should be pretty cool!!


By the way, this is George's, the sales manager, car.

 

LOL I think I took a pic of that car at the NMCA finals in Memphis 4 or 5 years ago. That was a great drag race. I know I took a pic of a Camaro with a fade paint job. I'll have to look, the pics are in the top drawer of my tool box. So there easy to find.

 

This is a great build! It reminds us of our F-71 Camaro build.




The ’67 Camaro came with non-staggered shocks. GM found out soon afterwards that having both shocks mounted in the same plane in front of the axle (along with the horrible mono-leaf springs) was a recipe for uncontrollable wheel hop when the power levels went up. Their suspension design team came up with the “radius rod” traction bar for the right rear side of the axle to control the pinion to climb upwards. This helped until they were able to stagger the shocks in the 1968 Camaro suspension redesign. Staggering the shocks at different angles (one in front and one in the rear of the axle housing) greatly reduced wheel-hop. Adding multi-leaf rear springs on 1968 Camaros with 210 hp or more was also instrumental in controlling wheel-hop. Better handling was a byproduct of controlling the horrible wheel-hop.

 

Hey those are my wheels.

 

[quote=Hotchkis;548762]This is a great build! It reminds us of our F-71 Camaro build.






Thanks.

Recently I received the billet fuel rails from Professional Products. The price was reasonable, but, unfortunately, they only come in red with red and blue fittings. I am considering using my buddy's bead blaster to take them back to their natural aluminum finish.

My buddy also mentioned powdercoating them black.

Any opinions?

 

If you blast them then coat them some how. The anodizing also hardens the surface. Powercoating could be cool. Maybe find a place that can black anodize them. Could blast and then have them polished.

 

Too many colors make it look too busy under the hood. I'd blast them and either leave them bare, coat them clear, or match them to the other black stuff. Very nice looking parts though!

 

I agree. I am leaning towards painting everything satin black.

 

Good news today from SD Parts. My pivot ball adapter for my Zbar has finally shipped. I have had this on order for nearly 3 months. SD was having a problem getting them from their supplier. If it didn't come soon, I was going to have to install a hydraulic clutch.

Not so good news on getting the correct radiator. Amazon, by far, had the best price, but they have sent the wrong radiator...twice!! The radiator part number is 8-00019-LS but they have twice sent radiator 8-00019 without the LS. The last one had the correct part number on the box but still had the wrong radiator. In their defense, they have been great to work with but, since they are not car people, it is hard to explain to them why the one I got will not work. I have some time yet so I will give them another chance. The difference in price is over $60.

I drove over to Kooks Custom Headers today. Not a whole lot to report there as their digitizer had been down. They have it repaired, but it has put them behind. I watched their guy entering data on another car. Pretty interesting to watch how they can plot all of the hard points and then design the header around those. It will be another couple weeks before my car is finished.

It was good that I stopped as they did have a question for me. They wanted to know if I was OK with their changing the motor mount adapters. They want to sell a complete swap kit including the motor mount adapters so they are sure their headers will work. They showed me a typical mount in another car. I told them as long as the motor uses the factory mounts, I was OK with this. I also asked them to, if possible, move the tranny towards the rear about 1/2" which would place it in exactly the same location as when it was behind the SBC.





I took a couple photos but had to leave suddenly when I got a somewhat alarming call from my wife. She had not been feeling well when I left, and, when she called, she wasn't very coherent. I immediately called my neighbors who checked on her while I drove the forty minutes to the house.

After calling her doctor and explaining how she had nearly fainted and was nauseous, they recommended taking her to the emergency room. They gave her an electrocardiogram and did a cat scan of her head. As they suspected, she had a severe case of vertigo which, according to the scat scan, was probably caused by the sinusitis they discovered. She was feeling much better by the time we left the emergency room and now has a couple prescriptions that will make her better yet.

Not the way you want to spend an afternoon, but some time you have to do what you have to do. Fortunately, it wasn't very serious but she said, at the height of her attack, it was pretty scary!! Thank God for cell phones.