Gaining 60 hp's
02-12-2008, 04:58 PM
#24
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RE: Gaining 60 hp's
ORIGINAL: 92GreyGT
Why does everyone race from a roll?
Why does everyone race from a roll?
02-13-2008, 04:20 AM
#25
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RE: Gaining 60 hp's
Hell yeah! My dad did his share of street racing and that was the trick, either have a small block and know how to make it leave on small bias ply tires or have a big block that would suck the windows out of your opponent on the big end! Most races are won, even at the dragstrip in the first 60'.
02-13-2008, 05:29 AM
#26
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RE: Gaining 60 hp's
FLcracker, I with ya too!!!! Old Fart. Back then I ran a 68 Mercury Cylcone 428 and a 73 Pontiac Grand Prix 455. We would take the light in front of the Naval Air Station in Belle Chase, LA. 4 lanes with a straight shot for miles. I had my share of wins and losses. No one could touch a LITTLE AMC Gremlin for years. Bad *** little car. My best win was over a Super Bee with my Pontiac on New years night. Spent that night in the pokey. Yup we got caught.
We also had and old runway on the base we used on Saturday nights, kinda like PINKS style. 8000 feet of freedom.
Back then you could buy retreads (yup retreads!!!!!) with just about any compound you wanted for cheap. We had no problems making it stick.
A rolling start then was for the "GIRLS".
[IMG]local://upfiles/12695/00BE4DF026C9419EB63FDC2CFE0486B4.jpg[/IMG]
We also had and old runway on the base we used on Saturday nights, kinda like PINKS style. 8000 feet of freedom.
Back then you could buy retreads (yup retreads!!!!!) with just about any compound you wanted for cheap. We had no problems making it stick.
A rolling start then was for the "GIRLS".
[IMG]local://upfiles/12695/00BE4DF026C9419EB63FDC2CFE0486B4.jpg[/IMG]
02-13-2008, 05:03 PM
#27
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RE: Gaining 60 hp's
ORIGINAL: MADMAC
FLcracker, I with ya too!!!! Old Fart. Back then I ran a 68 Mercury Cylcone 428 and a 73 Pontiac Grand Prix 455. We would take the light in front of the Naval Air Station in Belle Chase, LA. 4 lanes with a straight shot for miles. I had my share of wins and losses. No one could touch a LITTLE AMC Gremlin for years. Bad *** little car. My best win was over a Super Bee with my Pontiac on New years night. Spent that night in the pokey. Yup we got caught.
We also had and old runway on the base we used on Saturday nights, kinda like PINKS style. 8000 feet of freedom.
Back then you could buy retreads (yup retreads!!!!!) with just about any compound you wanted for cheap. We had no problems making it stick.
A rolling start then was for the "GIRLS".
[IMG]local://upfiles/12695/00BE4DF026C9419EB63FDC2CFE0486B4.jpg[/IMG]
FLcracker, I with ya too!!!! Old Fart. Back then I ran a 68 Mercury Cylcone 428 and a 73 Pontiac Grand Prix 455. We would take the light in front of the Naval Air Station in Belle Chase, LA. 4 lanes with a straight shot for miles. I had my share of wins and losses. No one could touch a LITTLE AMC Gremlin for years. Bad *** little car. My best win was over a Super Bee with my Pontiac on New years night. Spent that night in the pokey. Yup we got caught.
We also had and old runway on the base we used on Saturday nights, kinda like PINKS style. 8000 feet of freedom.
Back then you could buy retreads (yup retreads!!!!!) with just about any compound you wanted for cheap. We had no problems making it stick.
A rolling start then was for the "GIRLS".
[IMG]local://upfiles/12695/00BE4DF026C9419EB63FDC2CFE0486B4.jpg[/IMG]
02-13-2008, 09:58 PM
#28
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 224
RE: Gaining 60 hp's
youll have your hands full with a LT1. id set your car up to run from a dig. the LT motors breathe well with there good heads and will pull you on the topend with there airflow and displacement. id take weight out, put a stall in if your auto, sticky tires, gears and a set of heads would wake up your 5.0 to hang with a stock LT1 from a dig to say 90 MPH then the LT1 will start coming on pretty hard. GL with whatever combo you choose.
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