Camcraft Newsletter

August 1, 2000

Editor; Charles Reichard

Home of the Torque Monster cams

 

Dear Customers,

          August is here and school is just around the corner. We’ve had a pretty wet July so things are growing like mad, especially our lawn. We are staying pretty busy now though many of our customers have slowed down a little the last month or so.

          We’ll be getting our 383 Chevy motor back from L & M Engines of Hatboro, PA any day now. Our final horsepower is about 615. It has a very flat power curve and should power our Monza to low 9-second times easily. I’m really looking forward to getting on the track in the next week or two. We will be racing at Colonial Beach and US-13 at first. Then we hope to get over to Waynesboro, and Natural Bridge, Virginia soon.

           Despite repeated requests to remove gears from cams before sending them to be ground we continue to get a lot of cams in lately that have gears on them. This is a real problem for us, as we haven’t had a large press to remove them for 3 years so we have to take them in town and hope someone will press them off soon. Minimum charge for gear removal will be $30.00 no exceptions. The only cam we can easily grind with the gear on is 342 Cats (D8). We do not want to see any gears on anything but D8 Cats.  We will not even have any sympathy for anyone who forgets to remove the gears from their cams. Gear removal will almost always add at least one day to your turn around time.

Winners

          Alan Holmes, of Lincoln County Auto Parts, continues to win races in his own Ford powered open wheel car as well as supplying engines for other winning cars at Winchester Speedway, Duck River Speedway, Moulton Speedway, and Huntsville Speedway.

         

Steve Drummond is a current divisional points leader in the NHRA Super Gas class. He is also in the top 5 nationally and has been as high as 2nd.

         

Chris Mulleher won his first Grand stock race at South Hampton Speedway; a 75 lap race on July 14th. Hollywood Machine, Richmond, Va. is his engine builder.

 

Be sure to check out our summer specials!

Summer specials

 

Wheeler H beam rods;5.7 & 6 inch SBC 2.100 journal         ARP bolts                      $365.00  1 set

                                                     $349.00  3+ sets

 

Roller Rockers   

All are for 7/16 studs. These are race quality.  Quantity limited to current inventory stock. We use them in our Monza with 0 failures in 3 years over 7600 rpm.

 

½ sets available @ 60% of full set price.

 

 SB Chevy

          1.7/1.5 ratio

          1.65/1.5                                     $195.00

          1.6/1.5

 Other ratios available  1.55 any combination.   ½ sets available @ 60% of full set price

 

       BB Chevy

        1.7/1.7                                      $205.00

 

SB Ford

          1.72/1.6

          1.6/1.6                                      $195.00

 

     BB Ford 429,460  also 351C,M, 400

          1.73/1.6

          1.73/1.73                                   $205.00

                   

Oldsmobile

          1.6/1.6                                      $195.00

Carb. Special Price

Limited quantity. When they’re gone that’s the end.

 

Holley Carbs by Smithcraft (rebuilt)

 

650 CFM spreadbore -stock      $200.00

Looks like new        was        $265.00

650 Double pumper modified Alky        $395.00

                                                             was  $460.00                                                                              

Double Pumper has 4 corner idle circuits; Downleg boosters modified fuel circuits, and polished Venturis.

We used a Smithcraft 650 Alky carb on our Monza with great results. Even on our 383 it was within 10 hp of a modified 750.

 

Don’t miss out on these great special deals.

We thank you all for your continued support!

Yours truly,

 

Charles, Harriett, Clarence, Chuck  & Shannon