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something doesn't add up....what else did you change on the car? there's no way you picked up 17 MPH with just a gear change. your MPH should be pretty close to the same independent of gear ratio.





I don't know what to tell you. That's what it ran. It was a stripped down 82 Cordoba that still weighed over 3400 lbs. I had a 360/904 with a 3500 stall convertor in it. 235-60 BF Goodrich drag radials and 3.23's. The best I could do was a 13.55 at 89mph. During the winter I put in 4.10's and a spool and ran Hoosier 29X10.5 slicks. I might have also put a Holley electric fuel pump on it that winter too but that was it.

My first pass on the slicks I left easy and then hit it after 60 ft and it went 13.06 @ 102mph. The next pass it jumped out of gear at the end of the track. After I adjusted the shifter cable it went 12.91 @ 103mph.

At the track I usually ran at I got it to go the 12.71 @ 105.8mph early in the morning. It usually ran between 102 and 103 mph during the rest of the day.