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While its true MOPAR'S want be competitive with wedge heads in heads up outlaw racing where bore spacing,large ci along more modern heads rule the kingdom...I have no problem being competitive when you have to run conventional heads along with standard bore spacing with a BBNOS combo in our area 275 classes...At the last 2 we attended Tex275 .036 jet limit races we qualified #3 at one and we runner upped at the other...We never feel under powered with anything else out there in our class as it usually comes down to power management along with who makes the right call...Maybe one of these days at the right race along with the right track we'll put the man pills in and see if 60's/70's are possible and if I can't do it with the B1 originals I have a new set of PSO heads setting on the shelf I've been dying to get started on,but really want to max out this combo first !!

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Gary I totally understand where you are coming from on the "local" level. Same around here. A local 275 race, if you have a 4.80 car, you can be a player unless a "hitter" shows up. And we know who those guys are. The ones who run 4.50s and even some .40s at the big races. I rarely say NEVER, because never is a long time.......but, while I realize that are FEW serious effort Mopar guys, to my knowledge there has not been a Mopar x275 car yet in the .70s and .40s is a LONG way from there.

That class you are running in is pretty limited to try and keep combos equal. I know one of my guys, Jim Staples runs that deal but carries a good bit of weight for his heads, which are considered really "good" conventional heads for a Chevy

And as I said earlier, some are content to be the fastest at the local track, or the fastest Mopar, or whatever, but I am just not wired that way. If I build an X275 car, I want to be able to take that car ANYWHERE and the guy in the other lane be worried about having to run me. And while chassis, power management, etc are HUGE in small tire racing, I also like to know that if both cars make a good clean hit, that I have the oats to run up front. But that's just me.

Monte



I do listen when people with your knowledge speak,but upper 40's and bottum 50's are not the normal in X275 anywhere that i know of...Yes it's been done,but not regularly and a 60/70 car will win his share as the guys running 50's are typically on the edge or needs the right track to put all that power down and a pretty elite small group(last Denton,Tx race won with a .59 and Tulsa with a .60)...Now I have run no where near a 60/70 anything with small pills and may never,but I feel like its possible and sure is fun being the only MOPAR at these events !!!

Staples was the #2 guy with a .061 where i was #3 with a .064 my last event with them(missed tune-up and spun 1st rnd) and hes won the last 2 races also...Nice too see another old guy getting it done !!

My combo was way off on that race also as it was our first time out with the 1.58 p/g and new PTC convertor...We left the 3.70's in the rear and new convt would only stahl 3600 & flash to 4300 along with dropping 1800 on the shift...Felt like i was dragging a boat anchor as it didn't go to high until 3.65 seconds into the run and was really shocked at the .06....have since put 3.89's in and my chance bolt together which goes 4500/5200 and only drops 800rpm at shift and just havn't had time to get it back out to see what it does !!!