here is one of the actual Hot Rods I put together and drove to high school. ran HI-test Leaded gas..cannot remember the octane. had to be in the 90 range..
Anyhow this car I would Drive everyday and take it to the local brackets on thursday night and foot brake it (1980) and the car would run 7.40's
90 mph range with freaking re-cap tires on it. ( no crap )
now 7.40's don't sound fast today but I assure you It was daym fast for a street car in 1980 driven by a 16 yr old kid.The car would dead hook on the street and I mean nothing touched me on the streetin this camaro..
I know street racing is a No-No not advocating by no means but thats just what we did back in late 70's and 80's.. I was eatin up 30 yr old men's high dollar pro- street rods with this thing and it killed them that 16 yr old kid that put together a junk yard motor could out run them that bad.....and many times it was that bad...all I knew at the time was to bring it up on the converter until the brakes began to push and shift when I felt it stop pulling..normally when the valves floated !!!! lol......Thats it !
looking back today..its not that I had all this HP under the hood but what I did have worked good Togther ( all thrown together by accident) and the chassis worked like a charm.
ran a junk yard vega turbo converter that would last about 2 weeks before coming apart...300HP Double hump heads ( u could find in any junk yard at that point in time), bought that tunnel ram with a pair of 465 holleys for $225.00...paid the local speed shop $50.00 down and went back each week and paid $20.00 until I got it paid for ..took it home and bolted it on..
purchased a new hydraulic cam from ( auto shack) remember them ?...all i can remember is something like a 292 duration 450 lift with anti pump up lifters if i remember correclty it was an ALLIANCE CAMSHAFT.
thing ran like a scalded dawg the minute i fired it up. had no clue what i was doing...had to follow the Chiltons manual to get my distributer back in the right way and wires on correctly
Good memories
the two stickers you see on my windshield was a state inspection sticker. back when we had a state inspection law and the other sticker was my High school parking lot pass sticker
