Thankyou Bob for at least giving me a logical and realistic reply. As I said, I don't won't to outlay big bucks (no blower, 6:1 pistons, twin predators, steel crank or wateva fargin alright!). Yes I'd be doing the basic preliminaries upon delivery, like checking its ignition advance. I'm also a little suspect that the carb is having a major lean out at the upper rev range. I can check all these things at work as I have access to a 4 gas anilyser scope but, unfortunately no rollers. At this stage I don't know what kind of Camaro intake or even what kind of exhaust headers it has. Are the ram horns the ones that look like 2 eyebrows? I get the feeling it may have the logs, dam it! My friend James is also giving me his Chevy hot rod engine mod book that should maybe help identify a few things for me. Again, thankyou Bob and look forward to more contact from you and Streets fargin. Rob