1965 Impala BBC I/S

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

Are you the same Ed Wright the PCM Computer Specialist?

AS for the Index...maybe, but you have to work hard to get there.

Yes that is me.

Imho, the indexes need whacked about half a second. Street cars can run the index if you have a clue. That's too easy.

[joespanova]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Yes that is me.

Not to interrupt this thread......but , Ed , are you the same Ed Wright in my old 1981 Cam Dynamics catalog? Camaro? I may have already asked this...........

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by joespanova

Not to interrupt this thread......but , Ed , are you the same Ed Wright in my old 1981 Cam Dynamics catalog? Camaro? I may have already asked this...........

Yes sir. That's me. Been doing this way too long. I had been racing 20 years when that catalog came out. LOL

[joespanova]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Yes sir. That's me. Been doing this way too long. I had been racing 20 years when that catalog came out. LOL

LOL , Damn , when I first got my hands on the catalog it was new , I was in my early twenties.......where'd the time go? I was much poorer then BUT ......man I had fun. I had the 306 Enforcer in a 350 Nova w/ 4 speed.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by joespanova

LOL , Damn , when I first got my hands on the catalog it was new , I was in my early twenties.......where'd the time go? I was much poorer then BUT ......man I had fun. I had the 306 Enforcer in a 350 Nova w/ 4 speed.

Same here. Used to put money in the glove box of the ramp truck when we left town, for gas to get back home. LOL

Used to eat at McDonalds a LOT.

[joespanova]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Same here. Used to put money in the glove box of the ramp truck when we left town, for gas to get back home. LOL

Used to eat at McDonalds a LOT.

Think about it....I saw your car and name in 81 and 32 YEARS LATER and I'm talking to you now LOL On the INTERNET on a WEB SITE ......WTH ARE THOSE? LOL

To the original poster heres a pic of my 65 , 350 w a turbo 350 trans....great cruiser. I've since added the rocker moulding and wheelwell moulding......man what an improvement that was!

[Ed Wright]

Cool isn't it? I still get to visit with the people from Cam Dynamics back then. Many are at Comp now. Scooter Brothers is one of the owners, actually met him when he was at Racing Head Service before Cam Dynamic existed. I still get my cams from, and really enjoy getting to talk to Gordon Holloway at Comp. Mark Heffington, who started Cam Dynamics with Ivars Smiltnicks <SP?> and, CRAP! I forgot the other guy's name! Really nice guy too. Crap! Old age sucks! Anyway I think Ivars (we have lost him now) came up with the ten degree valve locks & keepers. Amy Faulk moved from the RHS Warehouse to Cam Dynamics. After Harvey Crane bought Mark out, GM hired him (great cam designer) to design cams for the GM V6 Indy Car project. They used EFI on those cars. Turned a light on in his head. He could not go back into the cam business.
He realized how new cars were going, with computers. He started Hypertech, making computer chips & programming computers. Amy Faulk works there also now, as C.E.O.
I'm very fortunate to know some really bright & cool people. I have had a lot of help along the way.

[joespanova]

Thanks for sharing the history! I think I'll step out now so regular programming may resume LOL
See ya around.............

[Dwight Southerland]

Ed -

Are you talking about John McWhirter? I knew all those guys, too. The RHS guys bankrolled Heffington to start Cam Dynamics. First time I met Mark was when they had the clandestine machining operation in the back of the sewing machine shop in Memphis. I got the #1 stocker cam Mark ever built. It was square lobed and would float the valves at about 5800 rpm. I also got one of the first 7000 series stocker cams to test and immediately changed from 4.56 gears to 5.87. Mark split with the RHS guys a few years later and in the breakup agreement the RHS guys got to use all of Mark's cam designs. That's how Comp Cams got started. McWhirter and Scooter were in charge of the cam company and Ivars still ran the engine shop. Ironically, Mark left Crane to start Cam Dynamics and it circled around and Crane bought CD. Mark and I used to have some great conversations! I was a philosophy major in school and Mark was attracted to every weird idea in the universe, so we would talk for hours. Remember the great t-shirts CD would print? I always liked the hippie flowered ones.

What was the guy's name that started RHS with Ivars? I can remember his face, but can't grab the name. We always said he was part of the Memphis mafia.

[Ed Wright]

I came up with "John" laying in bed last night. Still could not come up with his last name. That is him, nailed it. I knew they bankrolled Mark, but can 't think of Ivar's partner. He was walking around the staging lanes at Indy one year with a real babe. She was taller than him, but most were. LOL I can see his face, just can't come up with his name.
Jim Waible started talking to her while Ivar's partner (always wore slacks, etc) was talking to some racers. Jim asked her what the rest of us were wondering, what she was doing with him? :-)
She told Jim she was just a model he had hired to walk around with him. LMAO!!

I liked Ivars a lot. He helped me with parts I couldn't really afford at the time. Now I can afford whatever I want, but working on the car is much harder, and it appears I've forgotten how to drive the dang thing.