me vs 72 vette
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me vs 72 vette
A friend of a friend has a 72 vette with a 383 in it, and we went to the car show together this weekend. I got a couple of pics of it at the show I will post when I get home today.
Anyways, he has a 383 stroker (good for 7000+ but shifts at like 6200~ for power), a set of eldebrock jr aluminum heads, eldebrock jr intake, holley carb, real heavy cam (sounds mean) and full exhaust with equal length headers, running a automatic (4spd) trans. He said it dynoed (engine dyno at the engine build shop) 418 horsepower and 450 FT/LBs
I was really looking forward to racing him, but we never got a good side by side chance. (nothing worth videotaping anyway). On the way up there unfortuantly its all 2 lane road.
However, we did do a couple runs while passing cars. He would get on it first and start passing the car, and I would hit it and start the chase. After we passed the car we would run it up to around 100 MPH and then shut down.
I pulled on him every time. He would start getting away at first (since he took off first) and I was able to reel him in pretty good after a few seconds. In his words "it didn't take long to fill that mirror full of red"
The car ran really strong though. From a stop it would have been complete murder (me killling him) but from a roll it took at least a full gear before I would catch up and start pulling on him hard. (starting in 3rd around 50 MPH)
Anyways, he has a 383 stroker (good for 7000+ but shifts at like 6200~ for power), a set of eldebrock jr aluminum heads, eldebrock jr intake, holley carb, real heavy cam (sounds mean) and full exhaust with equal length headers, running a automatic (4spd) trans. He said it dynoed (engine dyno at the engine build shop) 418 horsepower and 450 FT/LBs
I was really looking forward to racing him, but we never got a good side by side chance. (nothing worth videotaping anyway). On the way up there unfortuantly its all 2 lane road.
However, we did do a couple runs while passing cars. He would get on it first and start passing the car, and I would hit it and start the chase. After we passed the car we would run it up to around 100 MPH and then shut down.
I pulled on him every time. He would start getting away at first (since he took off first) and I was able to reel him in pretty good after a few seconds. In his words "it didn't take long to fill that mirror full of red"
The car ran really strong though. From a stop it would have been complete murder (me killling him) but from a roll it took at least a full gear before I would catch up and start pulling on him hard. (starting in 3rd around 50 MPH)
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RE: me vs 72 vette
hell yeah man. thats awesome. arent u like 430rwhp ?? or something like that ? and does your car look the way it does in your avatar, or is it now lowered and aftermarket rims or anything. sounds like fun times tho.
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RE: me vs 72 vette
ORIGINAL: Grn N Gry 5OH
hell yeah man. thats awesome. arent u like 430rwhp ?? or something like that ? and does your car look the way it does in your avatar, or is it now lowered and aftermarket rims or anything. sounds like fun times tho.
hell yeah man. thats awesome. arent u like 430rwhp ?? or something like that ? and does your car look the way it does in your avatar, or is it now lowered and aftermarket rims or anything. sounds like fun times tho.
It has the stock rims, but they only came on that year of car (2000). Its called a springtime edition.
I have pics on here in the pictures section. The only changes I made was the tint, the rear spoiler (painted black) and the mach 1 grill deletle/chin spoiler.
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