All of the work that has been done on The Sleeper has been done by Olson Auto Service Inc. They are located in Eau Claire, WI. They are capable of creating custom stainless steel exhaust, custom engine design, and much more. They operate on everything under the hood and will do anything to increase the performance of your car. Ken Hering knows what it takes to get your car fast and reliable. He has been in the racing business for many years, while starting out as being a drag racer he later moved onto more circuit track racing. He moved from racing Legend cars to now racing Vintage cars with a replica Smokey Yunick 66' Chevelle.

Please visit his website www.olsonautoservice.com and review more of what they have to offer along with the race schedule for vintage racing.

Here is how the engine was tuned for the 400 plus horsepower.

Engine was bored 30 over.
The heads were ported and polished
525 camshaft
Holley 650 Spread Bore Carburetor
Stock Exhaust Manifold
Edlebrock Performance Manifold (matched to the engine)
Mallory Performance Electronic Ignition
Dual 2 1/2" Xlerator Performance Mufflers
Stainless Steel Exhaust Tips

The transmission and rear-end are the next to be worked on. I will be posting specs on the tranny soon.

The same day that I came up to see family, dad and I went to the gym and we took the car too. I did some 360 degree walk around and one video behind the wheel. If you are going to watch these, you must have your bass turned up so you can hear the engine properly. The cylinders on a 454 are not small so the sound is quite low.

Years have gone by that I have not driven the car. I came up to see my family and get an oil change for my mini van when I realized that the caprice was sitting out back of my dad's shop (Olson Auto Service Inc.). I asked dad about it but he was kind of quiet on the matter and I also noticed that his Bronco was missing. It turns out that he traded the Bronco for work and a new engine for the car. The engine is a 454 putting out over 400hp. Apparently someone built it for a street car and ran out of money. We have always wanted a big engine to replace the 4.3L, and now we have it.

After a couple of months went by, dad informed me that the engine and exhaust have been installed and he let me hear that thing on my cell phone. You can see what I mean by listening and watching this video.

While it was at the auto body shop (Devine Auto, Eau Claire, WI), we were allowed to come in and take a look at the progress that was going on.

The next day after I got the car back, we were going to a car show and in this picture you can see my Dad's 1930 Model A and also our red boat with a 454 big block.



The car doesn't quite look done though. We decided to get the bumpers powder coated black to really finish it off. All of the trim around the windows are all black and since we didn't want any chrome on it besides it's future rims the bumpers had to be black.