No, not ditch the Camaro. You all should know me better than that!
Well, I NEEDED a carb heat spacer. That's why I have had trouble starting on a slightly cooled engine. (If I stopped long enough for gas, it would start fine. If I let it set a couple hours, it would start fine. More than ten minutes, no starty.) Gas was perkilatin' inside the carb and it was squirting gas down the intake manifold, of course, flooding it. So I put a 1/4 heat spacer on there that should stop that. But the problem is... that fancy ass ram air intake I created doesn't work now because that spacer put the carb too close to the hood. I can't close the hood. So for now I'm running a regular style air filter, K&N with the flow lid, and that is on another spacer to put it up into the scoop for cooler air. It was literally trying to fit a triangle block in a round hole.
I will use a rubber mallet to gently coax the opening inward so it doesn't rub anymore. Shouldn't be noticeable.
Put the biggest baddest mofo battery Checker's/O,riley Auto Parts had with a much better reserve charge in case I gotta crank on it a while to get it started.
Also got new plugs. Just good ol' fashioned AC/Delco because those Bosch Platinum 2 plugs are garbage. They foul out if they get too wet, like if you have a cold engine you're babying without a choke.
But yeah, aside from that the Camaro is ready for road rage! Still need that alignment.