SACRILEGELS FIT TO BE BOWTIED Although Trovato is a well-known and well-respected Oldsmobile expert, he decided to stray from the beaten path on his newest creation and try his hand with a Chevrolet. tain, and relatively easy to squeeze ponies from. As a result, the well-recognized and highly respected Oldsmobile expert put together a 438 ci‌ Chevrolet LSX? In a word: yep. The first order of business was to build a car suitable for nearly four digits of naturally-aspirated bowtie horsepower. Trovato opted for a fifth-generation Camaro bodyin-white sourced from Scoggin-Dickey Chev-
rolet in fabulous Lubbock, Texas. The bare shell was delivered to Dillinger Pro Car (DPC), where the crew of Patrick Budd, Nick Carleton, and Chris Panny got to work on a class-legal 10.5 setup that would hug the pavement and provide plenty of straight-line hook for the new-gen Bowtie engine. A custom 4-link rear with a fabricated 9-inch Chassis Engineering differential riding on Penske
shocks was installed out back, while a pair of Strange Engineering struts was fabbed in up front. The rearend was fitted with a Strange center section and 4.56 gears, while a set of four Aerospace Components disc brakes were installed to slow the forward momentum. While the bodyin-white provides an excellent starting point for a racecar, it is far from complete. Luckily, Trovato managed
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