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My 70 Charger ran 12.30s at Wooburn with a stock NYer shortblock, MP template ported 906s , headers and a .550 short duration roller cam . I was running a 6pak but a good single plane would have worked. 4000# with driver. I also had a 65 Coronet 500 with a similar build except a MP 284/ 484...

If you are running a 904 now you will also need a drive .

If only want to spend a total of $500 buy a bigger cam for the 5.9 and a porting template kit. A 440 will require a different transmission, exhaust , mounts etc… Unless you are maxed out for head flow and cam already you can pick up quite a bit .

Haven’t read the entire thread but I have a few questions . Brett… did you make both the bottom cushion and the folding seat back ? My 68 Fastback rear folding seatback weighs a ton ! Did you make a lightweight console ? Another ton of weight …. I would consider a bench due to weight of...

Yep… same reason you alway strap your dirtbike down with hooks pointing up depending on your trailer hook orientation. If the strap relaxes the hook will fall off . After a long ride with a friend as we were driving down a rough mountain road and I glance in my side mirror to see his bike...

Fab up a bracket that mounts to the bumper bolts on the frame. Make them triangle shaped with holes at bottom large enough to accommodate your strap hooks . They would be out of sight and high enough to not be prone to scraping over speed bumps etc . Not to mention you wont bend any suspension...

I run a Daytona Sensors CD-1 ignition which has 3 limiters . Max rpm , burn out rpm and launch . It will also datalog , trigger nitrous and a myriad of other things .

I used a stock flasher switch to arm mine . Looks stock on dash as long as the looker doesn’t know how many switches a 69 Dart came with . Or they can’t count…lol

Just regurgitating of what it sees posted . AI the deck height of a 5.9 block . But don’t order your pistons based on what it tells you !

I run one . Easy to install

His latest vid popped up and it appears to be a 2 part rant against other engine builders. Lol Didn’t burn any of my life watching.

Tried to watch his vids but found a lot of initial rambling . Im sure he builds good motors but I can’t watch rambling videos.

Try Daytona Sensors CD-1. Big in the offshore high performance boat world. I run it on my Swingers 408 W2 .

My 408 with W2s and a 246/250 .648 lift on a 108 peaked at 6200 rpm.

Im out of room to be honest .

And Vettes came with the biggest tires of any 60/70s muscle cars . I know where there is a 73 Vette with 50k original miles that I can buy pretty cheap and am half tempted to move on . Its been sitting inside for many years with the dash taken apart because it needed a heater core and the...

My assumption is that it’s not just max HP that counts . Its power delivery that will not blow the tires off but pulls hard into higher rpms . 115 LSAs , high compression, trick timing curves etc…. Then you need to tune the suspension to maximize traction. But because you are limited to...

I once did a dry hop afert my brnout and quickly realized it wasn’t my tires smoking ! Tires glued themselves to the track and my clutch was cooking …. Urgh

The FAST class cars are hooking due to suspension setup / weight distribution/ cam grinds that push the power into higher rpms and softer low ends / timing tricks / tire shaving and many tricks I haven’t even thought of . Pretty impressive builds!

Not that I have had any blazing fast cars but I have always (since the 80s) built my cars in FAST fashion . My 408 W2 Swinger might hit the 10’s but it has headers and a Victor intake . I think the key to hooking with bias ply's is weight transfer , loose front suspension, semi loose rear ...

My 73 340 4sp Dart Sport ran high 12 in FAST form and I drove it from Idaho to Brainard MN and back . The key to success is in picking a platform that came from the factory with wide tires , good intake / carbs , light weight , decent exhaust manifolds etc . Corvettes kick *** because of...

Yes… it was my engine . We did around 7 power pulls but spent quite a while doing low rpm/ part throttle tuning . This guy was exceptional though… he had my engine for 3 days. Day 1 he hooked it up, Day 2 he broke it in and did some baseline tuning , day 3 we did part throttle and wide open...

Wow ! So sudden ! He was one of my favorites… Never got pissy and such a wealth of knowledge. If he posted I read it. He will be missed ! RIP

I haven’t raced in years but maybe bringing rpms up to close to stall will help in loading the tires to get more bite ? My thinking is the stabbing it from idle might be equivalent to dropping the clutch at whatever your stall speed is . This is me just thinking out loud.

So you are looking for consistency? That makes sense …

I missed the part about raising the rear end . I thought he was saying the taller tire would raise the rear…. So it depends on how you raise the rear end . The question is “will your car be faster with the bigger tires?) They will add rotating mass and the overall ratio of the rear gearing...

This is why we have so much trouble setting pinion angles (driveline angles..). It has nothing to do with IF the car is level . It is the difference between the trany to diveshaft vs angle of pinion to driveshaft . The car could be upside down ! Then there is also the negative vs positive...

Please explain this to me . Maybe I am not visualizing this correctly?

Pinion angle has nothing to do with tire size . It is the difference between the front /rear ujoint angles

I did not consider the difference. Just assumed the discussion was about drag radials .