BFT Gibson
Ambassador of Originality
Thinking more of the caming up hot rods soon like you mentioned. Hitting the wall gear wise where i really just want to play more. Now, lifting the front end up on gear shifts is so so satisfying !!
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BFT Gibson
Ambassador of Originality
Ahhhh. The sound of American Big Block muscle. A different kind of music.
Astral Traveler
Ambassador of Both Time and Space
It's an interesting subject but it has no value to anyone but a few of us nerds. If it did, conpanies would spend millions on researching ways to quantify the characteristics of guitars.
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When we were racing, we were sponsored by Iskenderian. Years later, I made friends with Tim Goolsby at Ultradyne. I designed all of our own camshafts for our racing team. This morning, I spoke with Tim about a custom grind for my 4.6 3-valve.
It would be a step up from these Ford Racing Power Products "Hot Rod Cams" in this video:
Astral Traveler
Ambassador of Both Time and Space
BFT Gibson
Ambassador of Originality
Been putting it off for years..my dream mod..frame off on rotisserie, 1966 Chevelle SS Convertable big block build. Every nut, bolt..everything done up right...427 going in. Moving band stuff into house soon, so the spot is available...seems like a good way to ride out into aging with something to keep occupied with. Music & hot rods all day...
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The cam in my 1975 Firebird was a one-off custom with a Ford firing order...
My era muscle cars (late 60s to very early 70s) don’t hold a candle to modern HP. But there is just a cool factor that goes with those big cubic inch V8s. Used to go to the IMSA weekends at Road America in Elkhart Lake WI. Lot of nice sounding muscle going past..... but one could always tell when it was a big block Chevy going by. The ground actually shook. It was awesome.
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We made 715 horsepower to the wheels with our 427 Ford Hi-Riser 2x4 drag car with points and condensor....Zero high tech...
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One thing I know for sure...if I ask for an opinion here, the answer will always involve spending more money...
Kerry Brown
Ambassador of the Great Northern Bar Jams
It was fun during practices with my GT4 Datsun 510 when the NASCAR wannabes were on the track. We would take turns lapping each other. I was faster in the twisty bits and they were way faster on the straights. I would pass them around the back side of the track, usually by the second corner. They’d pass me before I was halfway down the front straight. The 510 is shaped like a brick. With my little 1.6 ltr 4 banger I couldn’t get past 105 mph on the fairly short straight. They were up around 150 mph. Sometimes they’d let me draft them down the straight. That was fun. It would knock a couple of seconds off my lap time.
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chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
In your green beautiful nickle dime!!!!!
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Robert, you should see some of Kerry's pics of his Car. I would have been in Mid Atlantic RUST KILLS CARS, heaven if I could have even so much as gone for a ride with Kerry on the road or track.
By the time I inherited my 510, Rust and hit and run drivers had left it a sorrier sight than when my stepdad brought it home to his house in around 1972-73 still wearing the protective plastic on the inside of the door panels and seats. Before he was our stepdad, I vividly remember seeing this plastic and it being my first ride ever with him.
The other thing that stretched my little 10 year old mind from that first ride was I had no idea where we were going, I think sis and I just followed mom's lead and got in his 510 as they took us to see 2001 A Space Odyssey in 1974.
I sure wish I could turn the clock back to 1974 and put all my treasures in a time capsule and to have somehow had the resources ( CASH) to have bought houses in certain places for like $25000-$30000 which now go for over $1,000,000- $1.5 million+
By the time I inherited my 510, Rust and hit and run drivers had left it a sorrier sight than when my stepdad brought it home to his house in around 1972-73 still wearing the protective plastic on the inside of the door panels and seats. Before he was our stepdad, I vividly remember seeing this plastic and it being my first ride ever with him.
The other thing that stretched my little 10 year old mind from that first ride was I had no idea where we were going, I think sis and I just followed mom's lead and got in his 510 as they took us to see 2001 A Space Odyssey in 1974.
I sure wish I could turn the clock back to 1974 and put all my treasures in a time capsule and to have somehow had the resources ( CASH) to have bought houses in certain places for like $25000-$30000 which now go for over $1,000,000- $1.5 million+
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Sounds good in the mix...
Ebidis
Ambassador of Cross Legged Tele-Communication
I don't hear anything. Maybe I need better speakers.
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BFT Gibson
Ambassador of Originality
My buddy used to run those sidewinder 427's in galaxies..sure do get to that HP range, torque out the wazoo. It will pull the car strait up..had to have a wheelie bar..one of the best neck snaps i ever experienced...sheer brute power baby