Chevelle 2026

[TireSmoker]

I was looking through the project threads and it seems like the last time I posted about the Chevelle was in 2023 ?!? I guess 2024 and 2025 were kinda consumed by Maliboost, Drag Week, Champcar, etc. The Chevelle has been kinda soldering on.

First, my friend Jim Radel found these awesome 1970 model year plates, and they start with SS. I got rid of my DS1970 personalized historic, got a regular historic, and then added the model year plate. Tony has the same setup on his Chevelle. I love how they look. Red lettering, white plate, blue car.. 'murica!

When I ran Buckeye Sklps in the fall of 2025, the car was mis-firing on my dragstrip pass. Not awful, but clearly... amiss. Come spring of this year, it started stumbling when I'd pull away from a light, or go around a corner. It seemed very fueling related, honestly. But it would run just fine most of other times. I tried making a couple fueling changes, and it had no effect on the stumbling.

I had a full set of AC Delco coils on the shelf for drag week spares. I installed them on the car and everything was instantly resolved and the car just seemed to run better than ever. I made some adjustments to make the closed-loop idle work better. It's really about the best the car has ever driven, and its very satisfying to drive.

We drove it out to Wellington to meet up with Tony in his Chevelle for dinner at Forts. It's not close. By the time I got back, I had put well over 150 miles on the car. The gauge is reading just below 3/4, so I'm looking forward to filling it up and checking the mileage a bit.

It might even make a Wednesday night appearance.