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OF OFFICIAL OE REPLACMENT PARTS All Chevy Performance ISSN 2767 5068 (print) ISSN 2767 5076 (online) Issue 25 is published monthly by In the Garage Media, 370 E Orangethorpe Avenue Placentia CA 92870 6502 Postage paid at Placentia, CA POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: All Chevy Performance c/o In the Garage Media, 1350 E Chapman Ave #6550, Fullerton, CA 92834 6550 or email ITGM at subscription@ inthegaragemedia com Copyright (c) 2022 IN THE GARAGE MEDIA Printed in the USA The All Chevy Performance trademark is a registered trademark of In The Garage Media DEPARTMENTS 8 F I R I N G U P 10 PA RT S B I N 14 C H E V Y C O N C E P T S FEATURES 16 F L A S H BAC K Danny Jones’ ’61 Cor vette 34 I N TOX I C AT I O N Ted Westrickle’s ’69 C amaro 48 R EC O N N A I S SA N C E M I S S I O N Eddy Zuchowski’s ’66 Nova SS 64 C H A I N R E AC T I O N John Gilbert ’s ’66 Malibu 76 R E AWA K E N I N G Vernon Ward’s ’71 C amaro Z28 TECH 24 T R A S H O R T R E A S U R E How to Determine Whether Your Small Block Chevy is a Builder or a Boat Anchor 42 B O M B D E F U SA L How to Install an SFI Burst Panel 56 D R AG ST R I P S H O C K T U N I N G Notes for Shock Settings in Drag Racing Applications 72 A BA R R AG E O F BAT T E RY O P T I O N S Choosing the Most Important Part of Your Chevy ’s Charging System EVENT 84 G A S S E R G O O D N E S S Southeast Gassers Association at Knoxville Dragway [ 3 ] ALL CHEVY PERFORMANCE VOLUME 3 • ISSUE 25 • 2023 InTheGarageMedia .c om ACP TOC ON THE COVER Da n ny J o n e s ’ ’6 1 Co r ve tte p ays t r i b u te to t h e ’6 0 s ga s s e r e ra t h a t h e l p e d ca ta p u lt d rag ra c i n g o n to t h e m a i n s tage o f a u to ra c i n g T h e ca r i s a n i m m a c u la te re p re s e n ta t i o n o f a b u i ld s ty le f ro m d ays go n e by t h a t ref u s e d to d i e C h e c k o u t t h e f u ll fea t u re a n d s to r y s ta r t i n g o n p age 1 6 P h o to s by C h u c k Vra n a s 2021 RECIP ENT OF THE HRIA BUSINESS OF THE YEAR AWARD
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It’s hard to believe that we here at All Chevy Performance magazine are celebrating our two year anniversar y. With ACP having a born on date of Januar y 2021, the magazine you are holding in your hands or reading online is our 25th issue. That’s pretty cool being the odds of success weren’t on our side, or at least that’s what some of the feedback would suggest when we announced the addition of a Chevy-only magazine to the roster of In The Garage Media’s Modern Rodding and Classic Truck Performance magazines.
“Don’t you guys know that print magazines are dead?” “No one buys magazines an ymore.” “Which one of you ‘brainiacs’ decided to start a new Chevy magazine?” “Why would you publish a new magazine when ever ything is on the Internet?” Ye p , w e h e a r d a l l t h e “ p o s i t i v e ” a n d “ i n s p i r i n g ” c o m m e n t s y o u c a n i m a g i n e w i t h s o m e t h a t i n c l u d e d m o r e “ c o l o r f u l ” l a n g u a g e . To u s , a l l t h e n o i s e j u s t c o n f i r m e d t h a t w e m a d e t h e r i g h t d e c i s i o n a t t h e r i g h t t i m e .
When people tell me I can’t or shouldn’t do something, it only makes me want to do it more Kind of like when my 12-year-old self was told there was no way I’d be able to jump my Schwinn Sting-Ray o ver a 13 foot ditch using a wooden ramp built by an efficient group of 12 year old “engineers.” Apparently, my speed and launch angle calculations were a little off so I ended up with a broken left arm and a mouthful of dirt. That’s one time I probably should have listened to reason.
was an easy decision. Besides, all of us at In The Garage Media had previously worked together at another magazine publishing compan y, had plenty of experience in the business, and shared the same passion of putting together automotive performance magazines only this time around the idea was to do them better. Better paper meant the photography would look more dynamic and the pages would stay intact should a reader turn a page a little carelessly In Januar y 2022 we took it a step further and gave the magazine a larger trim size, which allowed for larger and more impactful photos within the car features, tech articles, and event co verage for an even better reading experience and a magazine I am proud to be a part.
Does it look familiar? Yep. Does it have a similar name to a magazine you may have read or subscribed to before? Absolutely And it was all done by design.
We t o o k a c h a n c e a n d c r e a t e d a s u b s c r i p t i o n o n l y m a g a z i n e a s w e k n e w t h e r e w a s a n a u d i e n c e w h o s t i l l w a n t e d a m a g a z i n e t h e y c o u l d h o l d i n t h e i r h a n d s , s t a c k o n t h e i r c o f f e e t a b l e , n e a t l y t u c k a w a y o n a s h e l f , o r s t o r e i n t h e g a r a g e j u s t l i k e t h e y u s e d t o A b o u t a y e a r a n d a h a l f i n , ACP, a l o n g w i t h Modern Rodding a n d Classic Truck Performance c a u g h t t h e a t t e n t i o n o f n a t i o n a l r e t a i l e r s , a n d t o d a y a l l t h r e e m a g a z i n e s a r e a va i l a b l e a t B a r n e s & N o b l e a n d B o o k s A M i l l i o n r e t a i l s t o r e s .
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