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Old 06-24-2022, 02:52 PM
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And then a 69 ram air 3 Judge ...a Pontiac engineer was in the store the first week I owned it and told me to get rid of the 744 cam...he shipped me a box with a complete ram air 4 top end and I installed the cam and heads myself...still a teenager in high school
This Pontiac engineer influenced me a lot.
Sounds like something Mac McKellar would do.

We kept burning out the aluminum manifolds running them on the street. Once the patches had patches welded on them my dad threw them out and made a set of shorty tubular headers.

Mac saw those and liked them and said "I'm going to grind you a cam for those."

He did. Even stamped the production numbers on the end.

Here's how that story ended up:

https://forums.maxperformanceinc.com...rs#post3809459 (post #81)

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