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Table of Contents
MARCH 2014 t VOLUME 54 NO. 3
CAR FEATURES
12 A LOT FOR A LITTLE
Gary Lackore’s ’71 Corvette runs with the big boys
for a fraction of the cost.
18 SHE’S A KEEPER
It took nearly 30 years of determination for Paul Welch
to build the ’78 Trans Am of his dreams, but that’s just
one of his keepers.
SPECIAL FEATURES
24 MUSCLE CAR EXPLOSION!
Seventeen of the finest rides from SEMA—the coolest
car show on Earth.
50 SEMA POWER PARTS
Forty-six hot new muscle car goodies you can’t
live without in 2014.
TECH
58 PREPPING FOR POWER!
If you build your own engine, you’ll want to cover
these important steps with your machine shop
when preparing your block.
62 MYTH BUSTER
Jon Kaase’s EMC-winning engine redefines
Ford’s four-valve mod motor.
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70 FUEL SYSTEM SOLUTION
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like a high-dollar fuel system at a bottom dollar
price—and anyone can do it!
78 GETTING BLASTED!
A great paintjob starts with clean metal.
We show you how to remove paint and crud
the fast, easy way!
EVENT
46 THE BEST OF THE REST!
Forty-two more eye-popping performers from
the muscle car explosion at the 2013 SEMA Show.
DEPARTMENTS
4 BANGIN’ GEARS
8 MESSAGE BOARD
POPULAR HOT RODDING (ISSN 0032-4523), Vol. 54 No. 3, is published monthly by Source Interlink Media, LLC, 261 Madison
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ON THE COVER
Photographer John Jackson of NotStock Photography captured four of our top
muscle car machines in the Friday evening afterglow of the annual SEMA trade
show in Las Vegas (November 5-8, 2013). A big thanks to Della Domingo and the
rest of the folks at SEMA for making it possible!
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BANGIN GEARS
By Johnny Hunkins
Escaping The Nonsense
T he picture on this page is worth a thousand words. OK,
These are the moments we live for, the ones we put up with
intense pressure and deadlines to experience. I’ll bet your life is
similar, whether you work within the industry, or you stamp out
plankton wafers at the Soylent Green factory. You circle that day
on the calendar for some hot rodding activity, and wait for it to
finally come. When it does, it’s like coming up for air, and you feel
more alive than usual. Turn
the key in the ignition and
the colors seem more
vivid. It’s just you, your
friends, your car, and the
open road.
I really needed this day
to happen—my Nova was
like a lifeboat that saved
me from a burning ship in
the middle of the ocean.
My email was on fire, my
calendar was bleeding at
least three shades of ink,
my blood pressure was
through the roof, and my
phone was blowing up
(in my case, literally). I was just two bad decisions away from
becoming another post oce gunman. When the engine fired
up the first time that morning and I heard the wicked lope of that
Big Mutha Thumpr COMP cam, it was like a huge weight lifted
o my shoulders.
As I listened to the hypnotizing thrum of the 400-inch small-
block ricochet o the rocks, I regained some perspective. I had
just come from the world’s most awesome automotive spectacle—
the SEMA Show in Las Vegas—and I was now headed to the
Goodguys Autocross Finals in beautiful Scottsdale. The country’s
fastest and most agile muscle cars would be there letting it all
hang out for $10,000 in prize money, and I had a front row seat
to both—and to think I was getting paid to see it all. Suddenly,
I felt like an ungrateful asshole. I’m the last guy who should be
complaining. There were still hundreds of poor cubicle workers
back in the oce who couldn’t escape.
In the coming weeks, the schedule doesn’t get any easier
for me—but I will gladly suer through mind-numbing quantities
of email, impossibly short copy deadlines, new corporate edicts,
software that doesn’t work, and training videos that make my eyes
glaze over, just to get to the next moment like this. In the end, this
isn’t a job, it’s an adventure that you just can’t beat, and I’m glad
you’re along for the ride.
maybe just 854. It was taken six days after the SEMA show,
the day before the start of the Goodguys 16th Southwest
Nationals in Scottsdale, Arizona, and five days before the 100 per-
cent copy deadline for this issue. Photographer Robert McGan
and I are at a rest stop on Interstate 10 somewhere in Western
Arizona, and we are enjoying
a beautiful sunset, the type of
which you rarely see outside
the region. Rather than flying,
we are driving our project cars
to attend the Goodguys event,
ostensibly to gather “content”
for future stories.
Within our company, there
are administrative people who
perform millions of invaluable
yet thankless chores, one of
which is arranging travel. I
always find it funny that they
think we want to fly on planes.
Around here, planes are for ad
sales guys and people with VP
in their title. Personally, I’d rather drive, or even walk, than get
another dose of backscatter radiation from the TSA porn box.
Running a kickass car magazine gives me the perfect excuse to
drive kickass cars, so that’s the way I roll whenever possible.
Those of us who make car mags/websites/videos didn’t get
into the biz to make money, we got into it to build and drive cool
cars, and to share that experience with other like-minded people.
Notwithstanding, you could probably guess that in a company our
size, there are a great number of people who are motivated about
a variety of non-car things, like spreadsheets, software code,
sexual harassment prevention training, financial reports, page
views, performance reviews, and search engine optimization.
These corporate activities provide a dense set of hurdles that on
top of an editor’s many nonautomotive operational duties really
test exactly how passionate we are about cars. Translation:
I’ve got to put up with a mountain of nonsense just to arrive
at the precious moment depicted in this photo.
Notice that McGan isn’t smiling. His Project Olds has a minor
oil leak, and problems with his parking brake caused him to miss
out on the Optima Challenge the weekend prior. Like I told
McGan, sometimes a car is like having a German girlfriend—you
love her, but she doesn’t love you back. Unlike McGan, I am
smiling. The Nova is running fine, its new Edelbrock E-Street EFI
is getting fantastic fuel mileage, and I am putting the corporate
cube farm further in the distance with every passing mile. Ten
minutes after this pic, we were hammer down, Flowmasters
bellowing o the k-rail, staring the remnants of a liquid sunset in
our sideview mirrors. My spirit was soaring and my heart bursting
with joy—I dare say, cube workers back in Irvine would’ve hardly
recognized me.
“I really needed this day to happen
… I was just two bad decisions away
from becoming another post oce
gunman.”
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