This 1,000-hp pro-touring 1971 Chevy Malibu wagon has all the right corner-carving moves.
There’s a point in every project where it takes on a life of its own. This is one of them, and since it was my child, I get to go all first-person as the proud parent. Theyou see here had several lives in its journey from bone-stock to crazy idea, to crazier idea, and as we built it over atIt all started nearly two decades ago with a wagon owned by Yancy Johns.
So many Camaros and other common pro-touring builds were popping up that we thought it would be fun to go all out on a wagon build using the best stuff out there. Physics says there’s only so much you can do with, but our goal was to build one of the baddest pro-touring wagons out there. Besides, in a Camaro you’re expected to win; finishing well in a four-door family truckster makes you a hero.
Given that objects at rest want to stay that way, weight was a huge issue. To overcome Newton’s first law of motion we wanted power—lots of power. To get there, we went tobuild that would give us plenty of torque to battle the wagon’s inertia. Starting with a stock block from Scoggin-Dickey Shafiroff worked its magic with a Lunati stroker kit, coated Mahle pistons, and a whole lot of precise engine building talent to get the 415-inch short-block bulletproof and ready for some boost.
With the magazine gone the project sat a bit before heading off to Javier Leclerc in Oklahoma for the finishing touches. He thought more power would be more fun, so, working with David Deatsch at Deatschwerks, he came up with ancentered around their brushless DW440 pump with a 40T billet bypass flex-fuel sensor bracket and AC Delco sensor.
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