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Read COMPLETE ISSUES OF RPM MAG online at www.rpmmag.com March2024 Often Imitated, Never Duplicated—For 25 STRAIGHT YEARS RPM Magazine has been the ORIGINAL Voice Of Wild Street Machines and Extreme Drag Cars WORLDWIDE! Don’t Settle For Less! We DELIVER Insane Fast Cars and Bring You NO POLITICS... JUST ACTION! Your ONLY “Real Time” “Real World” Car Mag...PERIOD! Wild Horse ........................................................... 68 From street cruiser to 6-second hitter! The Total Package 42 Lenny Farinacci has the car, the power and the team to win! Afterthought ....................................................................................... 96 This AMC Rambler has definitely gone Rogue! Nasty Nitrous Nova! 8 This no-time heavy hitter is packed with 598 inches of big Chevy power, and lots of nitrous! 1950 Chevy 5-Window Pickup 36 From the pages of RPM Magazine, May 2017 6 March 2024 | 25 Years Of RPM Magazine
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Incaseyouhave beenhiding underarockthe lastfewyears, itseemsthat mosteverycar everywhereis boosted.
Well, we at RPM still love nitrous and so do guys like Jim Penner. Bang for the buck, it’s hard to beat, and with companies finding new and innovative ways to make more power, and do it safely, there are cars out there kickin’ ass and takin’ names running the sauce!
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Penner has raced some thing pretty much his entire life. You name it; BMX bikes, jet skis, cars, and drag boats, and started building his first hot rod in 1982 at just 14 years old. His dad wasn’t a car guy and Jim didn’t have the education at that age to comprehend what he had taken on. It was a tough build, completed a year and half later… and sold two days after that! Soon after, Jim turned up a 1969 SS 396 car with a seized motor from a local ad and
traded an old 30.06 deer ri fle for it. “I took the rocker covers off to check it out, pulled the bent push rod out and drove it home,” Penner laughed. “And the following week we were off racing at Orange County International Raceway.” When the Orange County dragstrip closed, Jim hit the streets for action and got in a little trouble along the way, eventually selling the cars and moving to Oklahoma to help out on his grandfather’s ranch.
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It’s an addiction no doubt, but when handled correctly it is a healthy one!
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Yesterday’s Looks, Today’s Horsepower.
Trick Flow’s DHC™ 200 aluminum cylinder heads for small block Chevy feature exterior touches like straight spark plug holes and raised markings on the ends just like the legendary OE double hump heads. On the inside though, it’s all modern CNC-ported goodness. New 64cc CNC-profiled combustion chambers and 2.055" intake valves combined with Trick Flow’s CNC Street Porting process deliver big increases in high-RPM power and torque. You even get to choose if you want drilled accessory holes or not for the correct classic Chevy look!
Your Formula for Small Block Chevy Performance!
New heads are just one element of the horsepower formula. To make it complete, you’re going to need some other components.
Track Max® Camshafts
Give your small Chevy an even bigger power boost with a Track Max camshaft. Available in several flat tappet and roller designs up to 246°/254° duration and .555"/.555" of lift, they are dyno proven to produce significant power increases over the entire RPM range.
Retro-Fit Hydraulic Roller Lifters
These affordable retro-fit roller lifters permit roller camshaft conversions to be made in engines originally equipped with hydraulic flat tappet cams. The lifters are manufactured to factory tolerances for an exact fit and to provide precise oil control to keep your engine running smoothly. Sold in sets of 16.
Roller Rocker Arms
Finish off the horsepower recipe with aluminum roller rocker arms. Each set includes lightweight aluminum CNC machined rocker arm bodies with premium needle-bearing fulcrums and roller tips to reduce valvetrain weight and friction.
Trick Flow Some parts are not legal for sale or use on any pollution-controlled motor vehicles. 2402RPCT TrickFlow.com • 1-330-630-1555 Airflow Results DHC 200 Lift Value Intake Flow CFM Exhaust Flow CFM .100" 68 56 .200" 140 109 .300" 200 148 .400" 244 180 .500" 275 204 .600" 286 217 .700" 290 227 Tests conducted at 28" of water (pressure). Bore size: 4.030"; exhaust with 17 8" pipe. Dyno Results DHC 200 Test Engine: 10.2:1 compression 384 c.i.d. with Trick Flow DHC™ 200 cylinder heads (TFS-30210003-C00), Trick Flow Track Max™ hydraulic roller camshaft (TFS-31402002), 1.6 ratio roller rocker arms, Trick Flow chromoly pushrods, Edelbrock Victor Jr. intake manifold, 750 cfm carburetor, Hooker Super Competition headers with 1¾" primaries, 3" dual exhaust with Flowmaster mufflers.