ET'S with ported J/or other iron heads SB

The bottom line is, there are a lot of people who get offended at the idea that someone is just out-working them.
Stockers don’t go fast by accident.
You have to work on it, and be willing to swap out some parts if you want to keep advancing the performance.

When they don’t like what they hear, then they just start adding stipulations to justify why it’s faster than their car.
Oh it doesn’t run on pump gas, oh they can drive it on the street, oh the converter is expensive.
No ****...... everything is a compromise.

If you want to drive to the track on pump gas and run a cheap converter, and not have a cam that’s hard on parts..... that’s fine.
It’s going to go slower.

Others who have placed a higher priority on better ET’s have made their choices....... and that’s why they run like they run.


Exactly.
Not arguing one bit. And, I love stockers, and I love your posts. But I think the point is when somebody says "buddies car runs 10.8's with .430 lift" or whatever, why just tell the lift? Why not only tell the converter? "buddy runs 10.8's with 5200 stall". Or just say "my buddies stocker runs 10.8's". Why only the lift? That tells me that there is a "wow" factor trying to be implemented of somebody has undiscovered speed secrets. That truck in the video is a junkyard 360 (what, 200 dollar motor with stocker cam and springs?) pulling a truck at 12.4's. His good motor pulled it 11.3's. In a Duster he'd be high 10's for sure. Like Paul Harvey used to say... "now, the rest of the story"... LOL