SHO Shop News I

- Sheriff Buford T. Justice.  - new 9/4/01

I got a phone from Vadim, owner of the SHO SHOP, tonight. The phone call was brief but interesting. Vadim has several interesting juicy news items:

• His V8 blower project is moving along. He needs a reverse direction blower like that on the V6 SHO and should have the parts very this week. I have been a very good boy, maybe Santa will put a blower kit in my stocking?

• Item 2: Vadim has never been a big advocate of chips but recently has made some inroads as a consequence of the blower project. His thinking is a stock car will not benefit with a chip, but a V8 SHO with basic intake and exhaust mods can find another 10 HP with a chip.

• Yamaha sources state the cam sprocket is a result of a bad batch of cams and should not effect everyone. Batch size is reported to effect only 30 cars total? (out of a total 19,000 V8SHOs) They may be 100% correct but I am still reservedly skeptical. If that is true, it should be an easy decision for Ford/Yamaha, do right by those 30 owners (accept full responsibility) and it is a minor obligation given the very limited total scope of the problem. We can account for 14 bad cam sprockets out of about 500 cars on the list so I remain skeptical.