10's on $5,000 ?

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Oldiron440 said:
I say go with what you know and build a stroker small block. Starting over with a new engine family is starting from scratch in mopar world.
Pencil out the total cost of the biggest small block shortblock you can build and the cost of the 440/727 you need to come up with just to start.
The converter cost is the same as is shift kit and overhaul kit. Headers, manifolds, heads etc. you probably have plenty of small block parts if you have been racing for 30 years that you don't have for a big block.
Just like me racing small blocks, I would have to go all new parts because I have only big block parts.
400hp is no problem, 500+ hp with careful horse trading is doable.
If 500 hp doesn't get you to the tens who gives a rat's butt. It will give you a thirsty street motor that you won't be happy with.
All this talk of numbers to run and street driving to the track something is forgotten, just how dirty and nasty these motors are.
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One thing is for sure, we are going to get the truck to work with a mild street motor with spare parts I have sitting around. This will not be part of the budget, but mostly for funs and learning. I'd like to cut 1.8's 60 ft and go mid 8's in the 1/8 with the small block and let the 1/4 time fall where it may. If we get the truck to work and hook consistently, then we'll feel good going into the next level with a lot more motor.
 
Hold off on spending a damn thing on it until you have played with it a bit.
Your buddy's will make it look easy by applying what they know in there class cars. Believe me you come from a come from a completely different place.
 
Oldiron440 said:
Hold off on spending a thing on it until you have played with it a bit.
Your buddy's will make it look easy by applying what they know in there class cars. Believe me you come from a come from a completely different place.
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I agree, the whole truck "ET" thing will be new to me. I've tinkered with them a little, but nothing like we are trying to do with this one. We'll crawl before we walk, and walk before we run. As I mentioned before, I do have a track guy that's been racing these for about 30 years. But again, his are pure drag, not street. Big difference. Where ever it takes us, it should be a blast!
 
You have stated your a 30 year track guy so I feel the the last post is BS.
I've seen your gold painted aluminum slots and thought they were low rent. You racing bubby is infact a racer and your parking next to him a disgrace.
If your a racer you will run a pig motor an hour to the track and back. Your just a Blow Hard.
 
Oldiron440 said:
You have stated your a 30 year track guy so I feel the the last post is BS.
I've seen your gold painted aluminum slots and thought they were low rent. You racing bubby is infact a racer and your parking next to him a disgrace.
If your a racer you will run a pig motor an hour to the track and back. Your just a Blow Hard.
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  • Been going to the track and racing street cars for over 30 years. I've never been a bracket racer, never claimed to be one, and never will be a bracket racer.
  • You don't like my Gold Rims???? I'm deeply hurt.... :(
  • I'm trying to get this quote...:realcrazy:.. "Me racing bubby is infact a racer and me parking next to him is a disgrace".... :realcrazy: who's bubby? who's in fact a racer? And who am I disgracing by parking next to them?? Anyways, on to the next :D
  • Another quote from somebody tipping early on this Friday night.. LOL. "if i'm a racer I will run a pig motor an hour to the track and back"... :realcrazy:
Do you have to blow into something in your car before you can drive?? LOL
 
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LOL...:D..
 
I for one would love to see a better time slip than 13.3... (I know you said you have faster Time Slips, but I certainly haven't seen them, I believe you, but I haven't seen them)
Even if this is an a body forum and it's not an a body, at least it's a Mopar..
Hopefully all this yammerin will amount to something....:thumbsup:...
 
j par said:
I for one would love to see a better time slip than 13.3... (I know you said you have faster Time Slips, but I certainly haven't seen them, I believe you, but I haven't seen them)
Even if this is an a body forum and it's not an a body, at least it's a Mopar..
Hopefully all this yammerin will amount to something....:thumbsup:...
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I will personally give you a guarantee: I will show you a faster ET slip than 13.3 in 2020. (providing some catastrophe doesn't happen to me like a accident).
 
Could we clarify that a little bit? I mean I could show you a time slip...
You're a body Mopar that you own now...
 
318willrun said:
I agree, the whole truck "ET" thing will be new to me. I've tinkered with them a little, but nothing like we are trying to do with this one. We'll crawl before we walk, and walk before we run. As I mentioned before, I do have a track guy that's been racing these for about 30 years. But again, his are pure drag, not street. Big difference. Where ever it takes us, it should be a blast!
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Do you know how much his trucks weigh?
 
Mopar Sam said:
Do you know how much his trucks weigh?
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Not yet. Getting it weighed will be one of the first things I do after getting plates on it and getting it running better. It's been below zero here and our ground is covered in snow. Looks like the weather is going to break for us real soon, though
 
318willrun said:
Not yet. Getting it weighed will be one of the first things I do after getting plates on it and getting it running better. It's been below zero here and our ground is covered in snow. Looks like the weather is going to break for us real soon, though
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I was talking about your friends trucks s weight.
 
My new laptop went down, and I am trying to work my wife’s tablet until it is fixed/replaced. I can’t control this thing. Too heavy handed.
 
Mopar Sam said:
My new laptop went down, and I am trying to work my wife’s tablet until it is fixed/replaced. I can’t control this thing. Too heavy handed.
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on average, the motors I pulled from D150's and dropped in A-bodies usually drop a full second in the 1/4 mile, if not a hair better. Weight and wind resistance plague small blocks. This is why we are going work hard to get the truck to behave like a car and not a truck.. LOL. It will be a challenge for sure, as I've never attempted this before. I have some ideas that will take what is normally "against" a truck and swing them around for our benefit. I'm being tared and feathered enough on the open forum about this project so I'll just see if these idea's work or not behind the scenes.... LOL :D
 
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