kobyp said:
Ah come on man, you know a blown alcohol HEMI is the easiest way to make serious power.
Sure But at least I ain't pulling mine down but once a year and I drove mine to the track, or the far reaches of the county on Saturday nights on pump gas. well sorta, I put that pretty blue 100 Low Lead in it. I had an airport connection.
Actual formula was as follows... Skydiver + Buddy (Airport manager) + Fuel truck + two 35 gallon plastic drums X double the price over the local Amoco=fuel for weekends.
Take one Very clean 1968 RS Camaro and yank out one dead 307 and 3 speed on the floor.
Massage one 1968 L89 427 by adding a little bit of "Go Fast", some "Get up", a tad of "Hang on tight!", and don't even look at a NOS system.
Breathe through an 850 Holley and Dominator intake manifold and get the grinder out on them aluminum heads and the intake as well.
Slide all that through a Turbo 400 3000 stall to a Chrysler 8 3/4 4.89 Sure Grip rear axle. Yes I said Chrysler. Strong as hell and cheaper than dirt at the swap meet.
Stir in two off the shelf slapper bars extend them by 2 inches to hit the spring eye at the frame and add two 9" X 28" slicks
Spin that baby and turn 11.30's
Leave the slicks at home and turn 11.70's -11.80's and....
drive it to work everyday.
Yeah baby those were the days.
hemicudas said:
I tend to agree with the HEMI theory, Kobyp. Photo of my namesake.
I never had the opportunity to jump on one of those fire breathing, Ford eatin' Cuda's, but there was a buddy who had a '70 Challenger with that 440 Six-Pack 4-Speed that gave me hell without my slicks. Gold and a black top. All factory parts in that motor. (So he said
) That was one beautiful piece of machinery. That thing would creep up in high gear right at the end and I could hear them carbs singing
They wont ever build cars like that one ever again. Kid's now a days have no clue.
But yall got me for sure with that bad boy blower turning up around 8500 in second with that blower belt and air intake howling is a sound ya gotta hear because you cant describe it!
Man oh man there I go getting them chills again!
Sorry yall kinda got carried away. I thought I was over the fever!
