Yeah but i can bracket race my old plymouth valiant with its junk yard 360 magnum with eq heads and comp cam roller cam. It would cost me some money to road race that car and im to lazy to do anything for over a quarter mile. I drive enough already as a truck driver. Lol
351C and 400C motors should run in the 30 to 40 PSI range warmed up and running down the road. I have only had one of my own, in a 78 Bronco. Unless balanced, they are not real high rev motors. Torque monsters if built right. If its already been built once, I would pull the pan and verify. - - - Updated - - - As a long long time drag racer. Its not that great of a spectator sport. Its like golf, fun to do. Not so much to watch.
We racers always want to drive and not watch. When I go to drags, I go with Ed Schuck when he comes back to CA to race. I have helped him on this car. I have to get to Oregon to see how he changed this car. He pulled out the 308 Chevy engine, ran on gasoline with one 4 bbl carb and hit over 180 at 7.3 I believe it was. The small block he put in the same chassis is much faster. [video=youtube;A_CowKRGauA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_CowKRGauA[/video] Same chassis, different engine This that follows has 124 cu inches, turbocharged using Alcohol fuel [video=youtube;E5CLeqksdXM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5CLeqksdXM[/video]
Yeah my brother used to drive it, and some cousins all remember how much the car yanked just blipping the throttle. I was told it had a different intake and carb on it than it does now, lets just say someone sold and traded it without telling anybody. Thats the story at least. Nobody has touched it in over 5 years and when I took a peak into the radiator it looked like complete (*)(*)(*)(*) and the oil is awful. First thing I am doing is pulling the motor apart and clean it out, new cooling system, plugs, wires, and going to go with a new carb from Edelbrock and intake as well. Also new fuel lines and gas tank because im sure that is probably all gunked up. The body looks great though, except for the vinyl roof but im just gonna strip that off and have the whole car painted. Interior just needs a new driver seat and the dash has a few cracks in it. Gonna take some time but shouldnt really be that much to it.
Other than Drag Week and Power Tour I don't know what Hot Rod does with the shoot outs now a days. There are so many sanctioning "bodies" from zero prep to all the outlaws races that pop up. Pretty much anything goes at most races now. - - - Updated - - - Sounds like a fun project.
Saboury ('Vette), Christian (57 Chevy), Mike Moran (95 Camaro), Annette Summer (68 Camaro), Steve Carrier (66 Nova) and Pat Musi (69 Camaro RS) all had full interiors, working lights, and most were registered street cars. (Saboury's plate was "INTHE6S", Christian's was "7SEC57".) IIRC, Carrier's Nova and Summer's Camaro both had all steel bodies except the hoods. I recall Musi built engines for most of the Pro Street winners except Moran.
The first red 57 was Stan Shaws car. Christian's was all or mostly fiberglass. Guy in north Florida owns it now. Musi had the usual Pro "tin" interior with carpet overlays that snapped in. Summer's Camaro was very much a street car, she just had a (*)(*)(*)(*)ty attitude at first. Mike Morans first shoot out car was a Pinto wagon, that he started racing in high school. Then moved on to a full tube framed Camaro with multiple turbos that never seemed to get the bugs out.
You should check out the 92 and 93 Hot Rod Memphis shootouts and compare those cars, 8.50 to 9.50 @140 to 150+ were the dominate cars of the time. Those cars could not even compete in a grudge race today. But they were very much street cars with glass, mostly steel, lights and full ish interiors. You tube it. Great memories.
