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Old 12-03-2010, 10:20 AM
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Well Mark, I will say this... my buddy has a 65 Satellite w/a hp440 & we never raced, but damn that car is fast!!! When I had the 69 Camaro w/a bb, I believe he would have beat me... that thing is scary fast & will not run on pump gas. I told him he should straight axle it & make it a gasser. I do respect the mopars.
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Old 12-03-2010, 10:59 AM
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my very first car was a 65 Coronet with a 318A wide block in it, had to put a quart of oil in on each hgas tank fill up. My gpa let me pull a 440 out of an old demolition car he had and we wedged it in. It didnt have a posi rear end so it would smoke one tire for miles!! Not to much later the old 727 torqueflite couldnt handle the big block and just quit. I would love to find another one of those cars. Now all my toys over the years have been 95% GM products but my drivers have mostly been Dodge. My wife has a 93 Durango with a 4.7L, cat back exhaust and a cold air intake. We bought it new, she loves that thing and actually enjoys smokin some of these rice burner cars from light to light! I also have a 97 Ram thats my around the property work truck, 100K miles, has a plow on it, the body is rust free but I have had to replace every brake, trans and fuel line on the damn thing! its almost killed me twice blowing out brake lines while driving it. So I can say I have my fun in the GM's and leave the work to the Mopars!
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Old 12-03-2010, 11:12 AM
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My first engine swap was in '72 stuffing a 440 out of a big Chrysler into my 4dr '64 Belvadere. 2.72 rear screws on bias ply rags I'd run that thing past 120 in a heartbeat ! It took a while to get there, compared with the usual street racer of the day, but I swear it'd do 140 !! At least it buried the speedo and kept on pulling ! The crazy things we did as kids :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Old 12-03-2010, 11:39 AM
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Yeah the crazy things we have done my my the memories :!: Now at the dragstrip you will see 500 cubic inches in Chevettes, 500 cubic inches in Daytonas and 500 cubic inches in Mustangs, Shoot where i race at we even have a Escort with a big block chevy :!: But it's all fun :!: Just had to poke at you chevy guy's alittle :!: '' Like Ken Herring said on past time It's not that i dislike Mopar's , The Mopar guy's can take it because they are thick skined unlike others'' :!: :!:
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Old 12-03-2010, 12:04 PM
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It is really live long and drive a slopar
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Old 12-03-2010, 12:46 PM
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here is one of the actual Hot Rods I put together and drove to high school. ran HI-test Leaded gas..cannot remember the octane. had to be in the 90 range..

Anyhow this car I would Drive everyday and take it to the local brackets on thursday night and foot brake it (1980) and the car would run 7.40's
90 mph range with freaking re-cap tires on it. ( no crap )

now 7.40's don't sound fast today but I assure you It was daym fast for a street car in 1980 driven by a 16 yr old kid.The car would dead hook on the street and I mean nothing touched me on the streetin this camaro..
I know street racing is a No-No not advocating by no means but thats just what we did back in late 70's and 80's.. I was eatin up 30 yr old men's high dollar pro- street rods with this thing and it killed them that 16 yr old kid that put together a junk yard motor could out run them that bad.....and many times it was that bad...all I knew at the time was to bring it up on the converter until the brakes began to push and shift when I felt it stop pulling..normally when the valves floated !!!! lol......Thats it !

looking back today..its not that I had all this HP under the hood but what I did have worked good Togther ( all thrown together by accident) and the chassis worked like a charm.

ran a junk yard vega turbo converter that would last about 2 weeks before coming apart...300HP Double hump heads ( u could find in any junk yard at that point in time), bought that tunnel ram with a pair of 465 holleys for $225.00...paid the local speed shop $50.00 down and went back each week and paid $20.00 until I got it paid for ..took it home and bolted it on..
purchased a new hydraulic cam from ( auto shack) remember them ?...all i can remember is something like a 292 duration 450 lift with anti pump up lifters if i remember correclty it was an ALLIANCE CAMSHAFT.

thing ran like a scalded dawg the minute i fired it up. had no clue what i was doing...had to follow the Chiltons manual to get my distributer back in the right way and wires on correctly

Good memories

the two stickers you see on my windshield was a state inspection sticker. back when we had a state inspection law and the other sticker was my High school parking lot pass sticker




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Old 12-03-2010, 02:05 PM
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Pretty cool BJ. I didn't have anything for that one for sure, but I use to beat up on all the hot rods with my 79 CJ5 jeep ( AMC 304 with a 3 speed and side pipes). We had a short road behind our recreation department we use to race on. After I outran em I'd go right into the woods and do some hill climbing or ride down the rail road tracks and shoot deer.
One other thing I use to do was while driving cut the key off, push the gas to the floor then cut the key back on. It would backfire and throw a flame from hell out the side pipes. Man I sure do miss the mid to late 80's. I was in my late teens too.
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Old 12-03-2010, 02:06 PM
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thats funny brian, my first 68 camaro was about the same thing, kinda slapped together, had about 6 tons of bondo through the rear quarters but looked damn good!


it to had a high compresssion motor, had to run 93 in it all the time, it was nasty fast and I was only 19 years old beating some old school street racers more than once. I went to turn it off one day and it ran on, cracked a piston. I tore it down in my parents driveway and put 8 used pistons in it my buddy had, no cylinder hone, not very clean but it fired up and ran like a top for another 2 years (with less timing!) till I sold it cause I was broke and needed to pay bills! I sold it to a friend of mine, she was 19 at the time, her dad put a smaller cam in it and installed power steering. She owned the car for 2 weeks, stopped at a gas station, filled up, she had stepped on some oil in the lot, long story short someone pulled out in front of her, she stomped on the brake and her foot slipped off hitting the gas and flooring the car, it did a 180 in the street, took out a street sign, a fire hydraunt and then crashed into the side of a laundromat. Here is a pic if the final damage...
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Old 12-03-2010, 03:08 PM
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That is awesome Harb... there are still some fine parts on that car... funny how we see a smashed classic & start thinking about what we could use/take off.

Juice: I remember that pic... buddy of mine had one like it I remember in high school... he had to through it in neutral at every stop light so it could idle... I found some circle track cam & put in with some new push rods... it would go like hell from from 5K to 7K!! LOL.

I had a 72 Chevelle when I was 16. it was over cammed, over carbed, & high geared (probably 3:08 or something). I acquired a "heavy chevy" hood for it & it had 4-corner pins. One day, showing off I forgot the pins.... it was amazing how high that hood went.... we we had enough time to come to a COMPLETE FULL STOP & watch it fall down in front of my car. The dude that was with me looked like the guy from Fast times at Ridge Mount (I called him Spicolli). He said whoa... whoa... dude, that sucks. Should we get it???? I looked at that mangled hood & said lets go. We had to drive around my hood on a two-lane road & left it just sitting there.... man, the things we did in high school.
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Old 12-04-2010, 06:07 AM
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her dad was a body man, he put a 67 front clip on it and she actually owned the car for 15 more years, she sold it in early 2000...
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