Boss 302 myths

RustyRatRod said

Yes, they did have some R&D time with the Ford, BUT, the LA had been around several years at that point. I wonder how soon the T/A idea came about? 68....maybe? Wouldn't it have been badass if Chrysler had made similar heads to the Cleveland and Boss big port? oh well. lol

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The decision for Chrysler to run the 1970 trans am season was very late. We are talking months.

Not even close the race development of LA compared to small block ford by 1970.

Not much factory race development with LA motor before 1970.

For the 1969 Indy season Chrysler send ONE engineer to Keith Black to develop a stock block program. They ended up with an adapted Westlake head on it. Failed to qualify at Indy. But did win a shorter track race a Dover near end of year. That helped the 1970 T/A motor program get started some.

That’s peanuts compared to the money Ford spent in Trans Am. In ‘68 Ford had a special tunnel port small block T/A race head that never made it public. Got beat by Chevy (Penske). And Trans Am made rules more stringent to require production head.

And the money Ford spent at Indy and the Ford vs Ferrari GT40 program when they first had small blocks could make Chrysler pass out thinking about it.