the "B" guys have it......

why???

  • more money

    Votes: 10 34.5%

  • more big blocks

    Votes: 16 55.2%

  • less nonsense.......

    Votes: 9 31.0%
  • Total voters
    29
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318willrun said:
Past is past.... it counts for nothing here. Oh, by the way, look at how you beat up YR for talk'n of 15 years ago... :)
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Talk is talk timeslips R-Truth...
Yellow rose is going to get his in about 13 hours LOL... I've been filing and putting a sharp edge on my right boot...lol...
 
I must admit I spend most of my time on the FBBO site. I'm Mopar all the way, but there is not a small block in the building. I do have a 273, and 3 340's that I acquired with a deal. One of the 340's is in a 69 Dart that resides elsewhere.
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This is why most of my time is on FBBO.
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Jerry Hall said:
I must admit I spend most of my time on the FBBO site. I'm Mopar all the way, but there is not a small block in the building. I do have a 273, and 3 340's that I acquired with a deal. One of the 340's is in a 69 Dart that resides elsewhere.
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This is why most of my time is on FBBO.
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RustyRatRod said:
Heck of a nice lookin fleet you got there, Jerry!
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Holy Cow! That's a museum …
 
When my car was running 10’s....... it really didn’t look any different than it did when it was running 12’s.
Other than the size of the primary tubes on the headers and the color of the valve covers and air filter.
Well, and the addition of the roll bar.

No electric fuel pump or water pump, no fresh air, battery up front, heater, wipers, full interior, 3670lbs.
Still had the factory 5/16” fuel line and pick up too.

I’d make pass after pass....... I’d see people looking it all over in the lanes trying to find the “hidden nitrous kit”.

It really didn’t sound that mean either.

It had the same short block in it that I built in 1982...... and was in the car when I drove it from Sacramento Ca to Vermont.

The 10’s came about in 1995....... when 10’s out of that kind of car wasn’t all that common.

I remember this older guy looking it all over hard the first time I had it running 10’s.
He and his bother were old school Mopar guys who had been racing those things for years and years. They had a few MW cars they’d show up with once in a while........several of which were slower than my heap......and were equipped with more race type stuff too.
He proceeded to tell me about all the stuff I had done wrong........ yet my car was out running his.

For me, a B or E body with a big block in it is “the easy button” for 10’s......stuff just bolts right in.
 
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I guess I would differ that 10's is the "easy button". Been going to the strip for 30+ years, and I can tell ya, 10 second B-body street cars didn't roll in and out like a Walmart parking lot. But yes, the fitment is better and headers are cheaper than A bodies for sure.
 
318willrun said:
I guess I would differ that 10's is the "easy button". Been going to the strip for 30+ years, and I can tell ya, 10 second B-body street cars didn't roll in and out like a Walmart parking lot. But yes, the fitment is better and headers are cheaper than A bodies for sure.
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Easy if you have a lot of tire, correct pinion angle, long shocks, adj snubber, 800 dollar+ convertor, and really.. a tame existing motor of common power around 375-400hp..like 60% 'these days' of what people have.

If all that is done at a shop.. ..hmm cut n roll of the rear is around 250.00, separate the trans for the convertor, valve body install, parts n labor $3000+ or so plus whatever else.

Do it yourself, and you'll save 1500 maybe...but of course youve already bought more in tools to perform the task.
Talk is talk, it's still work.. people are always quick to surpass a goal and then say 'that was easy'
 
318willrun said:
I guess I would differ that 10's is the "easy button". Been going to the strip for 30+ years, and I can tell ya, 10 second B-body street cars didn't roll in and out like a Walmart parking lot. But yes, the fitment is better and headers are cheaper than A bodies for sure.
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I don’t know....... I did it 25 years ago...... and it really wasn’t that hard.
The only thing I didn’t do myself was install the roll bar.
Built my own motor, ported my own heads, built my own trans, built my own rear, did the body work, painted the car, etc.

There was nothing too special or trick involved.
One key ingredient was....... no concessions made for “streetability”.
4.56’s, slicks, 5300 stall.
 
PRH said:
I don’t know....... I did it 25 years ago...... and it really wasn’t that hard.
The only thing I didn’t do myself was install the roll bar.
Built my own motor, ported my own heads, built my own trans, built my own rear, did the body work, painted the car, etc.

There was nothing too special or trick involved.
One key ingredient was....... no concessions made for “streetability”.
4.56’s, slicks, 5300 stall.
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ok, I was talking about street cars....
 

Well, change the tires and put mufflers on it...... it’s a street car.

Everything else required for state inspection was in place.
Heater, wipers, horn, all the lights worked, working E-brake, etc.

Wait, wait........ the windshield washer tank wasn’t in it.
So I would have had to put that back on too.
 
PRH said:
Well, change the tires and put mufflers on it...... it’s a street car.

Everything else required for state inspection was in place.
Heater, wipers, horn, all the lights worked, working E-brake, etc.

Wait, wait........ the windshield washer tank wasn’t in it.
So I would have had to put that back on too.
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Again, what some call a street car is different than what I call a street car. 4.56 gears and 5400 stall probably doesn't drive 60 mph for an hour to the dragway on a hot summer day. And if it did, who'd want to sit in it sounding like a 4 stroke chain saw
 
To-may-to......to-mah-to
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It certainly wouldn’t appeal to me at all now........ but 30 years ago???
Maybe.

Nowadays I’d just build a stroker with aluminum heads and make another 100-150hp so I didn’t need the 4.56’s or 5300 converter.
 
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