I'm the happy new daddy of a true garage queen. 2010 Hennessey Camaro HPE650, with 3600 miles on the clock. When I first set eyes on this beauty, I immediately thought of the old Monte Carlo SS ad, "Lord Vader, your car is ready."
She's literally traveled more miles in an enclosed trailer down to Texas and back to its original owner than she's run under her own power. Of course all that sitting around comes with a price. Who knows how old the 1/4 tank of gas in it was... she was pretty cranky on the drive home, but topping her up with fresh dinosaur juice helped considerably. The oil looked like it just came out of the bottle, but had been in there since 2018; so I changed that over the weekend.
Immediately after the oil change, all of a sudden she developed a misfire and lit up the ABS, TCS, Stabilitrak idiot lights. So tonight I entertained myself swapping plugs, wires, and coils around to get it isolated. The plugs that came in it are all black; it's probably been started, idled till warm, and shut down a zillion times without any real road time. But I've got her running on all 8 again tonight, and the wheel speed sensor data quit annoying the computer, so that's happy again too.
So yeah, I'm gonna have to do the contortion routine to swap out those #4, 6, and 8 plugs in the near future. And the 11 year old tires are gonna need to be replaced, I'm praying the tire shop doesn't butcher those lovely Hennessey wheels ! I'll probably get ahold of my high school buddy who built my 3800SC Fiero and have him order the tires and put them on.
Anyway, the TLDR version.... Ol girl makes my first gen CTS-V seem tame by comparison
...and PICS !