Naynay- Nifty Chevy. Way back in my misspent youth, I saw a similar beast. It had a 540" stroker built from a tall deck truck block. He had the sleeper thing down pat. The spacers required to run an Edelbrock C-454 intake were blended in, the intake was painted Chevy orange, and the stock Chevy valve covers still had the 396 stickers on them. I don't know what carb he ran, but he had a factory GM dual-snorkle air cleaner housing- the kind with two short oval inlets- but with a lid from a 283 that was the same dia as the filter. The only real give-away was the exhaust. Headers with stock mufflers and turn downs. Column shift T400 with a shift kit. Almost anything could put a car length on him in first gear. Then, he'd just reel 'em in and spit 'em out. He had a fairly mild juice cam in it, too. It just simply had more torque than any of us hicks had ever seen.
Congrats! Good old school stuff. When I bought my Elky over 10 years ago,it was in the 12's,427 BBC 4 speed. Kept whittlin' away,ended up at the end of one season with a 11.01 best. So pizzed off,couldn't get it into the 10's.
Pulled the old 215 oval iron heads off that winter,had Ladds Porting service do a little massage on them, put thinner steel shim head gaskets on,to bump the compression up a little. Next spring,very first pass down the track,10.97! Helluva feeling,never forget it.
Don't run it much now anymore,best is 10.45 128. Still a thrill for an old fart,yanking them gears!
I was looking at another site, and it gave me an idea. Let's post up our old Drag race photos from the 50's, 60's and 70's. I'm sure some of you have some pretty cool old car photos from "back in the day". Let's see what you all have stashed away.
My buddy Joe Morrison just completed his licensing runs for top fuel.
And guess who was there to celebrate with him?
Shes still so cool to this day, ive been to her house a few times.
Another freind of mine does their AC work, and I was lucky enough to tag along.
annual gathering of the geezers at LAT racing engines,beautiful canebrake,ca.in between ridgecrest and lake Isabella on hwy 178.huge car show,cackle cars,nostalgia everything.ed's supposedly gonna be 96 this year.raffle for some pretty cool old stuff,dave mac has been the mc in years...
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