I'd like your thoughts on this 360

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nm9stheham said:
I suspect there is also some driving skill and a bit of experience in the car involved here......that is a factor that is hard to separate out.
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That might have had something to do with it also. I was told that he is a nephew of Don Garlits and lived with him as young boy. But that has never been confirmed to my knowledge.
 
My guess is around 16.20's on a good day with tires aired down and some vht, or maybe some slicks... I imagine a stock early 70's 360 Holley 2210 two barrel or bbs 383-400 carb on an Edelbrock 318 street master, Edelbrock SP2P, Edelbrock 318 port performer, offy dual port, or even stock non egr two barrel iron anchor intake with the plenum milled open would be the on the outer limits of a nice fat, black smoke blowing from tailpipe, borderline stalling out bog that I could almost promise will happen with a four barrel and 2.45 gears.... I've owned and been around enough low compression, high geared, over-cammed slugs to know.
 
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Garrett Ellison said:
My guess is around 16.20's on a good day with tires aired down and some vht, or maybe some slicks... I imagine a stock early 60's 360 Holley 2210 two barrel or bbs 383-400 carb on an Edelbrock 318 street master, Edelbrock SP2P, Edelbrock 318 port performer, offy dual port, or even stock non egr two barrel iron anchor intake with the plenum milled open would be the on the outer limits of a nice fat, black smoke blowing from tailpipe, borderline stalling out bog that I could almost promise will happen with a four barrel and 2.45 gears.... I've owned and been around enough low compression, high geared, over-cammed slugs to know.
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I'm confused... either I missed your point or you didn't read the thread??

16.20's ... A little late to the party, but never to late to learn. The car has run 13.9's. Not bad for a low compression, high geared, over-cammed slug :D (over cammed… .427 lift/204*????)

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I looked for a button that says friggen like, but sadly none could be found.
I really like your concluding remark; excellent choice of words and sentence structure, and perfect adjectives.
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LOL.......
 
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And my purestock 1970 340/A833/3.55s, in 1971, ran a best of 4 runs 14.4@98 , and she was the 340 car to beat where I came from.
Course that was on the skinny E70-14 PolyGlass factory skates,lol.
Car scaled 3330 at the track, me in it.
 
I'm sure driving ability/tuning has a lot to do with those times, to put it in perspective, my street '71 340 Cuda, full interior etc., which weighed around 3600 with me?, 727 with a 3500 stall, 3.55 posi, 284/484 purple hyd, dual plane/750DP, 8x26" slicks was running 13.3's@101 and made 301fwhp.
 
j par said:
^^^^^are these guys saying you're full of crap?:poke::popcorn:
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He has posted his time slips.
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Modern times. Cars are faster by a half a second or more because of it.
Something to do with computers I think.
Maybe the good gas we have now.
 
Nope, think he's done well for what he has...compared to my junk which perhaps should've gone in the high 12's with that set up, It did go 12.4's later but I did have to up the cam to a big solid, 4200stall/4.30's/850DP/HSD intake and race hdrs.
 
Ima thinkin' tire technology cuz those Polyglass tires spun thru 2 and sometimes 3 gears. I lived at the Southend of Winnipeg, in a place called St Norbert. In the late 60s the government built a huge diversion ditch to re-route the RedRiver around the city, to stop the annual spring flooding . About a half a mile South of us they build a big ol' dam to control the system. At the top of the dam was a 2-way concrete dead-flat roadway. And you guessed it; AJ used to go lay stripes across it with the 4-gear 340, and try to find the shifts in the tracks. The road was long enough to get into third with the 3.55s, before coming off the ends onto gravel. Never could find the shifts.....
PolyGlass tires, were better than any other street tires in 1970 , but they were like riding on ball bearings. E's were 7.35inches of tiretread, so maybe like 195s or 205s at most.Changing lanes in traffic could be tricky. Imagine 205s on a 340 today; what a crazy idea.
So 14.4 wasn't all that terrible considering she was spinning for something like 9 seconds.
 
I don't mean to brag, but my '72 Satellite Sebring Plus (318 auto with 2.71) is doing about 18.4 @ 75mph (Rubi was driving a 2004 Toyota 4Runner):

Mar 30, 2016 Sonoma Raceway Wednesday Night Drags

4:44 PM Ody Rubi 4:17 PM Ody Rubi


R/T .286 .723 1.126 1.136
60 ft 2.905 2.455 2.646 2.589
330 7.826 6.824 7.588 7.071
660 11.920 10.513 11.807 10.811
MPH 60.06 66.97 58.82 66.33
1000 15.440 13.644 15.377 13.984

1320 18.413 16.384 18.368 17.045
MPH 75.79 82.10 75.37 66.11

I guess I could use some tuning tips.

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Hot Metal said:
I'm sure driving ability/tuning has a lot to do with those times, to put it in perspective, my street '71 340 Cuda, full interior etc., which weighed around 3600 with me?, 727 with a 3500 stall, 3.55 posi, 284/484 purple hyd, dual plane/750DP, 8x26" slicks was running 13.3's@101 and made 301fwhp.
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WEIGHT. POWER TO WEIGHT RATIO.

What is the rule of thumb per every 100 pounds removed for a quarter mile race time or horsepower?
 
Ooops, my bad but way late on this party, Childus Interrruptus occurred... My apologies, and some serious respect on your E.T. For some reason thought your cam timing at .050 was much higher, a real DOH!!! moment on my part... Your cam is essentially identical to mine, same specs, mine is sold by sealed power, yours by crane. Mine works well in my '18 because of 10:1 compression, and this tells me I've got to get to the track for a baseline this weekend....
 
dibbons said:
I don't mean to brag, but my '72 Satellite Sebring Plus (318 auto with 2.71) is doing about 18.4 @ 75mph (Rubi was driving a 2004 Toyota 4Runner):

Mar 30, 2016 Sonoma Raceway Wednesday Night Drags

4:44 PM Ody Rubi 4:17 PM Ody Rubi


R/T .286 .723 1.126 1.136
60 ft 2.905 2.455 2.646 2.589
330 7.826 6.824 7.588 7.071
660 11.920 10.513 11.807 10.811
MPH 60.06 66.97 58.82 66.33
1000 15.440 13.644 15.377 13.984

1320 18.413 16.384 18.368 17.045
MPH 75.79 82.10 75.37 66.11

I guess I could use some tuning tips.

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You may not want to brag but I'm going to brag. I once had a horse that can do the quarter mile in under 45 seconds. We changed him to aluminum plates in place of the regular shoes and he slowed down he could only do it in 50 seconds. Course me gaining weight may have had something to do with that.
On a horse it gets down to ounces not pounds.
 
dibbons said:
I still don't understand the 13.9, which is about what a street hemi would do off the showroom floor.
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I build a 60 styled 67 notch Cuda , JY style, low compression 8 to 1 360 WITH FACTORY PARTS. . Ended up with a best of 13.61 @ 102 on a,cool evening at Famoso. With 8 to 1 comp ,and a Crower Baja Beast...
Basics beat flash . N
 
j par said:
^^^^^are these guys saying you're full of crap?:poke::popcorn:
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Discussion is always fun, but this thread was complete to me when I met my goal. Now, I'm moving on to the 2nd goal in the new thread..... "Back to the drawing board"
 
Bomber
If you tell me you did that with the factory TC,3.23s ,and 3600pounds, I'll be really impressed,lol.
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I'm just saying that would be really impressive, not insinuating anything else.
 
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Abodybomber said:
I build a 60 styled 67 notch Cuda , JY style, low compression 8 to 1 360 WITH FACTORY PARTS. . Ended up with a best of 13.61 @ 102 on a,cool evening at Famoso. With 8 to 1 comp ,and a Crower Baja Beast...
Basics beat flash . N
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gears? headers? whats a baja beast (cam I assume),
 
318willrun said:
Discussion is always fun, but this thread was complete to me when I met my goal. Now, I'm moving on to the 2nd goal in the new thread..... "Back to the drawing board"
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This is the same car and engine in the "back to the drawing board" thread correct? The petty blue duster?
 
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