Hey guys, would love to hear of some different combos and why you liked them.
Guess i will start. I should preface this by saying i have had faster stuff, but this one is my favorite so far, and i will try and post why i think that.
70 Duster, all steel, full bench seat interior, bolt on fiberglass hemi dart scoop, uncut, not minitubbed. Shifted via the stock column shifter. 8 point mild steel cage, stock gas tank with 3/8 pickup, Holley black pump. 28 by 10 QTP’s on 8 inch wheels.
002/003 leafs, Comp engineering 3 ways at all four corners.
727, 4900 flash 8 inch convertor, 4.30 gear in 489 8.75 case with spool.
Race weight 3400 pounds with my 310 pounds driving, always a full tank of gas to help avoid slosh and uncovering pickup.
Engine
70 340 block 30 over
4 in cast Eagle stroker crank
Ross flattops( 11.5 compression)
Eagle H beams
Comp flat tappet with 1.6 Erson rockers. 260/266 598/623.....107 LSA, installed at 104( cam specced by Dwayne Porter)
Eddie heads stage 2 ported by Hensley. 275@600.... lots left in them
Weiand excellerator
Race Demon 1025RS 4150 carb( sweet piece)
TTI 1 5/8 step to 1 3/4 step headers with dynomax bullets behind them.
Best ET 10.74 @ 124.60.... 1.44 60....
Improvements left on the table...... swapping to 904 and 1 7/8 race type header likely would have yielded something around 10.45 to 10.55, but never got around to it( ultimately broke the cast crank, grenading the motor. Opening up heads more.
Why i liked it....... cool shifting the thing off the column and having the factory bench seat. Surprised a lot of people when they saw the car close up. In this guise, several times i drove the car on a 70 mile round trip jaunt to US131 to race it, and in fact i made the bracket finals team that season on the last point night of the year, needing 2 round wins and getting 4.
Lessons learned..... never lean on a cast stroker crank, the next year it let go, but had a lot of hits on it. And should have made the heads better from the get go
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