"POWER NATION" slant six build

[QUOTE=Brandon Weaver wrote:
"So, 10lbs of boost on a stock slant would theoretically be around 250hp, that is, if you can tune a blow through carb PERFECTLY. The chance of an average Joe pulling a 13 second 1/4 with a 250 horse motor in a 3000lb chassis (btw, I'm assuming you meant 3,000lb with the driver in it, which as you stated earlier, most street cars weigh in around 3,400) ain't real likely."

Point of information:

The Wallace online calculator, which is the only such online drag racing source for performance figures arrived at by entering weight and horsepower numbers I know of, says a 3,170-pound vehicle (that's a 3,000-pound A Body plus a driver weight of an NHRA-mandated 170 pounds,) with 250 horsepower should turn in a quarter mile performance of 13.58 at 98.52 mph.

That's their opinion, not necessarily mine, but it's all I have to go on.

So, the trick would be to get the weight of the car down to three grand. My '64 Valiant weighs 2,670, with a roll bar and sub-frame connectors. But, it has no front bumper, a fiberglass hood, and no back seat. My earlier '64 Valiant with a 340, weighed 3,105.

A 13 second,10-pound boosted slant 6 in a 3,000 pound A body is a definite possibility, I think.