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Street/Strip Car Street Usage #1102570
10/27/11 02:22 PM
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It seems like it is almost harder to build a street/strip car than a strip only car or a street only car because of the compromises involved in trying to do both.

I'd be interested in hearing about people's street/strip combos. Cars that actually see some regular street usuage, not race cars that have somehow been registered but don't really get driven much on the street.

How often are you driving it?

What's your combo in terms of motor, heads, cam, exhuast, stall speed, gears?

What are you running for rear tires? Regular radials, drag radials, DOT slicks? Non-dot slicks?

What are you running for front wheels and tires? How many are running 3.5" aluminum wheels with front runners?

Full interior?

Parts stripped off (wiper motors, radios, heater boxes)?

Manual steering or power?

Any issues that have come up?

I just got my '67 Satellite running after swapping out the original 318 for a pretty mild 440 with about 9.75 compression, 238 @ .050 Engle hydrualic cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM, 850 Holley DP with choke horn milled off, Hooker 1 and 7/8" headers, full 2.5" mandrel-bent exhuast with crossover, Dynamic 9.5" 4200 stall converter, big trans cooler, deep pan, 3.91 suregrip, 255-60-15 radials on cop rims, full interior, no heater box, no radio (yet), manual steering, manual disk brakes.

I only have a couple hundred miles on it so far but it seems pretty civilized to drive around. It's not very loud, idles at 700 rpm in gear, handles decent, lack of power steering is not a big deal at all, starts right up without a choke (just pump it a couple times). It makes me wonder why they bother selling performance carbs with chokes. Who is actually going to driving their musclecar or hot rod in the winter or cold weather? Cooling system usually never gets past 180 degrees.

I drive it a few times a week around town to do errands after work and on the weekends.

The only issues so far seem to be the poor-fitting Hooker headers rattling up against things when I'm at a stop light, and the combo of stall speed and shift kit seem to make it not want to shift from second to third until about 4,000 rpm. I've been messing around with the kickdown linkage but I probably should have just gone with a manual valve body.

Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 67Satty] #1102571
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360 edelbrock heads,904 3800 9.5" convertor,8 3/4" 4.10 gears.
tti headers,full 2 1/2"exhaust. runs 11.60's@3,300#
i drive it around 600 miles a year.raced it 10 times this year.
11.5x15" mt et streets.
i know the car could go faster with a 8" convertor,but it still has realy good street manners with this set up. full int.with race buckets,fiberglass front bumper.
new best was at maplegrove last sunday 11.59 @ 113.56 1.55 60'
i was still in the 10k footbrake nat. when they voted to split the prise money.due to cold track cond.28 cars left out of almost 400.

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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 67Satty] #1102572
10/27/11 03:13 PM
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Quote:

It seems like it is almost harder to build a street/strip car than a strip only car or a street only car because of the compromises involved in trying to do both.

I'd be interested in hearing about people's street/strip combos. Cars that actually see some regular street usuage, not race cars that have somehow been registered but don't really get driven much on the street.

How often are you driving it?

What's your combo in terms of motor, heads, cam, exhuast, stall speed, gears?

What are you running for rear tires? Regular radials, drag radials, DOT slicks? Non-dot slicks?

What are you running for front wheels and tires? How many are running 3.5" aluminum wheels with front runners?

Full interior?

Parts stripped off (wiper motors, radios, heater boxes)?

Manual steering or power?

Any issues that have come up?

I just got my '67 Satellite running after swapping out the original 318 for a pretty mild 440 with about 9.75 compression, 238 @ .050 Engle hydrualic cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM, 850 Holley DP with choke horn milled off, Hooker 1 and 7/8" headers, full 2.5" mandrel-bent exhuast with crossover, Dynamic 9.5" 4200 stall converter, big trans cooler, deep pan, 3.91 suregrip, 255-60-15 radials on cop rims, full interior, no heater box, no radio (yet), manual steering, manual disk brakes.

I only have a couple hundred miles on it so far but it seems pretty civilized to drive around. It's not very loud, idles at 700 rpm in gear, handles decent, lack of power steering is not a big deal at all, starts right up without a choke (just pump it a couple times). It makes me wonder why they bother selling performance carbs with chokes. Who is actually going to driving their musclecar or hot rod in the winter or cold weather? Cooling system usually never gets past 180 degrees.

I drive it a few times a week around town to do errands after work and on the weekends.

The only issues so far seem to be the poor-fitting Hooker headers rattling up against things when I'm at a stop light, and the combo of stall speed and shift kit seem to make it not want to shift from second to third until about 4,000 rpm. I've been messing around with the kickdown linkage but I probably should have just gone with a manual valve body.




I like some gear to mine, and some converter, and pump gas is always a must. What you have sounds like the making of a good street/strip car, so depending on what your budget is, the sky is the limit.

Rear Suspension:
I like ladder bars over SS springs or Caltrac's and Mono's.
I run spools from now on, I cannot stand posi rears that wear out after a year or two.
I run a back braced 8-3/4" or a Dana
Gears depend on tire height, and if I have over drive or not. My one hot rod has over drive so that has 4.56's and a 28" tire. My other two have 4.10's and at least a 29" and my other has 31", so they still cruise ok.

I put +2000 on my pro street truck this year, and it has a mild 360 .484 cam with 4.56 gears and OD and fuel injection. No power steering, but it does have wipers. Seats are custom covered bench.


'70 Cuda,...605 EFI Hemi Street Car (6.20 best pass, 1.33 60ft)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYw6RA-k5Bk (6.25 at 108.75mph from inside car)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zQEb9uxFng (6.25 at 108mph from outside car)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCvfzsC4NgM (9.9)

'66 Barracuda AWB Stretched nose Blown 440 Car in build stage

'71 Duster Drag Car 400 Low Deck 512 best 6.002 at 115.44mph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znuo3jMUXTk
Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 67Satty] #1102573
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Full Interior, aftermarket stereo with 12" sub, heater, wipers everything still in tact. With the exception of this winter the car has been driven on average probably 4 days a week since I got it 5 years ago. Sometimes everyday, and for a long time it served as a my daily driver.

340, 9.5:1, Edelbrock heads, air gap, 230/230 480/480 hydraulic. Holley 750 HP. TTI 1 5/8-3/4 headers and 3" exhaust with X pipe from the collector to the rear bumper. 904, Shift Kit, cast aluminum deep pan. 9.5" 4600 stall converter.

Car was converted to Manual steering and Manual brakes Big bolt pattern, factory discs up front, 10x2.5 drums in the rear. No issues with either.

Originally had 002/003 SS springs, switched to Calvert 90/10's up front, Rancho's rear, split monos, Caltracs.

Car had a 8 3/4 with a sure grip and 3.91 gears. It was replaced by a Dana 60 with a spool, 35 spline axles and 4.10's

Originally had 15x7's up front with normal BFG radials and 15x8's rear with either a 26" or 27" tall drag radial (See sig pic). Made the switch to 15x4's up front and ran with Sportsman Pro's up front and frankly the car drove like garbage. With either a slick on the back or the drag radials it was just plain scary to drive for some reason. Wen't back to a radial and the car is 100 times better.

I literally drive the car everywhere, rain or shine, being in seattle, lots of rain the car can't just sit in the garage 260 days a year. Its sat in stop and go traffic for hours, cruised down the freeways and never left me stranded.

I've put about 1,000 passes on this combo (200 ish a year) and thousands of miles with 0 real failures. It has been good to me.

I have a much more stout engine combo going together, It will still run on pump gas, and I still plan on driving it, but probably not nearly as often as I used to. We shall see.


-Dustin
67 Dart, 9 second, 392" G3 Hemi
68 Barracuda 340 F/SA
Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 67Satty] #1102574
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What's your combo in terms of motor, heads, cam, exhuast, stall speed, gears? 440, stage VI heads, 588 solid roller, headers 3" system. 3800 stall and 3.91's

What are you running for rear tires? Regular radials, drag radials, DOT slicks? Non-dot slicks? Hoosier Drag Radials durning the season (275/60/15) 265/65/16 BFG's out of season

What are you running for front wheels and tires? How many are running 3.5" aluminum wheels with front runners? 15x3.5 w/ 205/75's

Full interior? yes

Parts stripped off (wiper motors, radios, heater boxes)? wiper no Heat box yes, radio c/d yes

Manual steering or power? manual

Any issues that have come up? Not really


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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 67Satty] #1102575
10/27/11 03:25 PM
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Good question. I think a Street/Strip car can be a bit of a grey area still. I personally would still consider my car a street/strip car, but some others may not.

Last month I did a "Alberta's Fastest Street Car Shootout" with it. I would say that was a good event to weed out the race cars from street cars. We had to drive from a mall in the north of the city to the track on the extreme south. We chose to unload at the track and drive to the mall, and then drive back with everyone else. We didn't want to have to unload at the mall, and then drive the car and truck and trailer back to the track.

It worked out to about 2 hours of bumper to bumper traffic. We made it with no issues, and surprisingly, it cooled! (18" x 18" 4 core brass rad, no shroud, mech. fan 3" from rad)

We did the cruise on 91 octane fuel. I couldn't lean into it at all really, or it would start to tick a bit. I really had no reason to lean into it on a cruise though.

Once at the track, and through tech, We dumped 5 gallons of 111 octane in the car and started racin'! It was a random draw from a hat who you lined up with. We were the last all motor car to get knocked out. Ran a best of 10.78 @ 126mph through the mufflers @ 5000ft. elevation.

The car has a roll cage, no heater, no power brake, no power steering, no sound deadener, and I have ET FRONTS on a set of 4" wide centerline's up front, and 8.5 X 26" ET Drags on the back currently. The car has a big converter, and a set of 3.23 gears.

The engine is currently 13.3:1 compression on a W2 cast iron head. The cam is a solid roller 277/284 @ .050" and .748"/.714" lift. It doesn't sound that street-able, but it has been pretty maintainance free so far, and I street drive it.

I consider it street/ strip, but others may not.

-Kenny









Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 67Satty] #1102576
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I started building my 1971 Duster BB stroker (400 block, 4.300 stroke with 4.375 bore, 518 C.I. pump gas motor ) to race the black guys(street racers or who ever would race, not just the black guys ) in East L.A., Watts and Compton in 1999, I didn't get it done(health reasons) until the summer of 2005 after I moved to central Oregon It is fully legal for NHRA drag racing to 10.00 flat, it went 9.993 the last time out so I need to slow it down if I want to race it again, no big deal I know how to slow them down, it is called raising the right foot before the finish line or put weight in the trunk or lots of other ways to slow it down a tiny bit The car has ladder bars with coil over rear suspension with a diagonal link, stock gas tank, stock 1974 K memeber and standard steering, complete 1974 Duster front suspenion and disc brakes, 6 cylinder torsion bars, radio and heater, extra insulation under the carpet and on the firewall and above the headliner, no back seat.Stock 1973 Duster front bucket seats, they are 8 lbs each lighter than the 1971 are NHRA legal Chrome moly roll bar, sub frame connectors, full after market steel wheel tubs to the stock subframes,I had the rear wheel wells stretched five inches, three inches forward and two inches back from the stock location (center) The rear end is moved forward one inch to keep it looking stock, the motor is moved back a inch also I drive it a little up here in the summer, never during bad weather I have ran several different tire combination on it, M/T ET Street bias ply and the same size M/T ET Street Radials, 315x60x15 on ten inch wide rims and a set of Goodyear slicks, 12x29x15 as well as a set of M/T 10.5x31.25x15 W drag slicks. It is a ball to drive Sets you way back in the seat I have to be real careful on the street as it will bust the rear tires loose in any gear above a slight roll if I slam the throttle open all the way If I roll into it slowly in 2nd or 3rd gear it will stay hook up, usually I have had several different converters in it, 8 inch, 9 inch and a ten inch. and several different rear gear ratio in it, 3.73, 3.91, 4.10 and 4.30 in the 8 3/4 housing before I bent it up bad enough to have to replace it from to much torque It has a Dana 60 out of a 3/4 ton Ford pick up cut down in it now 4.10 gears with a Strange Engr. spool and Strange Engr.35 spline axles Stock A body 8 3/4 complete rear brakes. I have a three inch exhaust on it from the fenderwell headers back to the rear bumper, the mufflers are three inchx14x7 oval Magnaflows mounted at the rear bumper Not loud until full throttle I have removed them(complete exhaust sytem, pipes and mufflers) at the local 1/8 mile track and the car picked up .04 ET and .25 MPH, really not worth removing them I do have a fibreglas hood and front bumper, I put a three speed wndshield wiper motor and switch to keep it legal in CA. I originally had a six pak on it and needed the three speed windshield wiper motor (They mount siedways to the firewall, not straight out like the two speeds motor do ) to clear the six pak air cleaner I have had to remove the heater when I put two differnt 440 motors in the car, I build Mopar (only)hi po motors for fun and extra income and test them in my car, the 440 rocker arm covers won't clear the stock heater motor I hope this helps EDITED, Boy did I get treed Front tires and rims are 3.5 Bodarts and 165SR15 VW tires, ten or 12 inch Bodarts on the rear with whatever tire is on them I also forgot to attach the picture

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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 67Satty] #1102577
10/27/11 03:31 PM
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I hear what you are saying about a dual purpoes car, thinks like diff gears, front tire width, noise, gear shifts, fuel economy etc are at opposite ends of the scale for a street car/cruiser or a drag car.

My 383 '70 Barracuda has always been a street car that I could race (not fast though!) I could take my kids 120 miles for a holiday with their grandparents & take in the local drags before driving home in reasonable comfort.

Like yourself I thought it was time for an upgrade but I'm not sure if I have gone too far as it is not altogether & on the road yet. I will be running a solid roller cammed (268/264 @ .050 .637"/.634" lift) 484 Hemi with dual plug heads, magnesium tunnel ram & a couple of 750 Holleys. I'm swapping out my shift kitted TF for a full manual reverse pattern one. For the street I'll run 15 x 6 & 15 x 10 on the strip & shows I'll use 15 x 3.5 fronts, I intend starting off with Mickey Thompson Sportsman tires 27" & 29" tall as I'm going for the Pro Stock look. I live in New Zealand & our laws say we must run full treaded tires on the street "The minimum legal tread depth is 1.5mm across three-quarters of the tyre width and around the entire circumference"

I am a but worried how much fun this car will be on a 300 mile trip but it sure will be fun in short bursts.

Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: nz383man] #1102578
10/27/11 04:29 PM
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1967 Coronet, drive it everywhere but not a "daily driver", full interior, exhaust, headlights, wipers, etc.etc. I'd have to say it is more of a street than strip car, about 80% street/20% strip. If I get to 'da Grove 3-4 times a year in WI, I'm happy with that. I don't trailer it there either (should have the last time tho... ouch!) and am happy with the 470/727 trans w/ 9.5" converter, 4.10 dana, Bullet roller cam, m/t 325x15x50's drag radials OR bf goodrich t/a radials in back, t/a's in the front. Get lots of compliments driving it around town and to the local stores. Have yet to see how it does this year but previous best times were 11.80's at 113mph-ish.

Have fun with your car!!

Dave

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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: nz383man] #1102579
10/27/11 04:36 PM
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My 63 is most definetly a street/strip car that I drive alot. I like to drive it when ever I can but I also worry as to where it will be parked so sometimes I wont take it to events where it would have to be parked in a park-in-lot all day or somewhere that I cant see it all day. As long as I can get to see it every so often or I feel it is safe then I will drive it.

It is a pump gas only car as I have never had race gas in my gas tank and I race it just like I drive it thru the 3" X-pipe system with 2" TTI headers. Has working wipers , radio and horn.

The new eng is the strongest street/strip combo I have built but it drives and idles good. And I love the fact I can pull in any gas station and fill up on 92 pump.
Its a 63 Plymouth Sport Fury that weighs just over 3700 with me in it and it has a 6 point roll bar and frame connectors.
Eng is a .030 over 440 with a 4.15 crank for 493 cubes. 440Source bottom end with dished pistons for 10.6 comp with the Indy EZ heads I use that were ported some by Dwayne Porter.
Custom grind solid flat tappet cam speced by Dwayne Porter with 264 & 270 at .050. Lift with 1.6 rockers is .624 and .630 on a 110 LSA. I have the cam in on a 106 centerline. Indy dual plane intake with an 850 DP. Mallory dist with MP orange ecu and Firecore plug wires. And I still use the red Holey fuel pump with the built in regulation. 727 trans with manual v/b and a Dynamic 9.5 converter that flashes about 4200. 4.30 gears and I drive on the street and race on Hoosier 30 x 9 radial slicks. Suspension is all stock with 3400 lb SS springs and long C-body type rear shocks. 90/10 Comp shocks up front. Car is manual steering and really drives easy.

Body is all stock as I will not cut on this car at all. Best et is 10.76 @ 124.49 and I hope with some tuning over the next year to get it down in the 10.50's as the eng has only been in the car about 4 months. And I do love this hobby very much as like I said I drive it all the time and drive it to the track and race it 2 or 3 times a year. Ron







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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 383man] #1102580
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Here is an eng shot of my 493. Ron


Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 383man] #1102581
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Here is an eng shot of my 493. Ron




Dude, you need a bigger air cleaner I would bet money that there is probally close to .05 or more in a 14 inch diameter by three inch width9or as tall as you can run under your hood ) with a drop base air cleaner assembly on your car, maybe a tiny bit more( .005 to .010) with a K&N Extreme lid on top


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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: Cab_Burge] #1102582
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I had many single purpose race cars for many years and watched the grass grow up around them. Never again will I have a dedicated race car. My car is a 77 Road Runner , full interior , heater , radio , wipers and even a functional clock on the dash. It runs 10.80s all day with full exhaust and et streets on the back. 422 inch 318 pump gas with a small roller cam Eddie heads 950 Hp Carb 727 trans and 4.30 gears. It will run in traffic all day and gets pretty good mileage. I don't drive it as much a I used to but it will still go to the grocery store every once in a while. " Beer Run "


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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: Cab_Burge] #1102583
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Here is an eng shot of my 493. Ron




Dude, you need a bigger air cleaner I would bet money that there is probally close to .05 or more in a 14 inch diameter by three inch width9or as tall as you can run under your hood ) with a drop base air cleaner assembly on your car, maybe a tiny bit more( .005 to .010) with a K&N Extreme lid on top




Actually that pic is from Carlisle as I threw that on to go because the larger one I used hit the hood. If you look close it has no base as it fit under the hood just putting the filter and top on and the filter fit perfect on the carb. I need to get a drop base job and see if I can get it to work.


I really enjoy post like this as I love reading about everyone's street/strip combo's. Ron

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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: Kindafast] #1102584
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I had many single purpose race cars for many years and watched the grass grow up around them. Never again will I have a dedicated race car. My car is a 77 Road Runner , full interior , heater , radio , wipers and even a functional clock on the dash. It runs 10.80s all day with full exhaust and et streets on the back. 422 inch 318 pump gas with a small roller cam Eddie heads 950 Hp Carb 727 trans and 4.30 gears. It will run in traffic all day and gets pretty good mileage. I don't drive it as much a I used to but it will still go to the grocery store every once in a while. " Beer Run "





Your combo just proves how good the smallblock strokers run. Do you know what your car weighs ? Ron

Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 383man] #1102585
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Thanks for the complement Ron. My old Taxi weighs 3400 with me in it. A lot less without me.


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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 67Satty] #1102586
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in 2001 I started building my 63 Dodge into a drag machine only..

was going to build a 572 and race N/SS...however I started doing things like removing the stock front suspension...so that would have put it in A/FX...

then the Duster came along and the Dodge got shelved for a few years since 2004..

we sold the Duster and I kept the engine and driveline..the plan was now to install all the goodies into the 63 Dodge and put it on the street..

problem here is the 499 is a bit radical for the street meaning I couldnt take it on long cruises...so now my thinking switched gears and decided to have my engine builder go over the engine and have a custom ground hydraulic roller cam made and installed..this way I wont be eating springs and having to back off the rockers each time its put away for the winter..

just recently we moved the 65 GTO out of a 10 year hibernation in a filtered air bubble...there wasnt an ounce of dust on the car!!...so now the Dodge is in the corner and up on jacks...

I'll let the pics do the talking...


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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: smokinwoody] #1102587
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My previous "street car" was a 72 Challenger that was full interior and ran 9.3's. Was it streetable? Ok to the grocery store or gym. Could you drive it 100 miles to somewhere? I wouldn't have chanced it.

Having "been there done that", I chose to go with as streetable as your father's oldsmobile with my new project.

389 sb with 76 mm turbo, AtoA intercooler,FAST FI, Eddy heads, .220/.520 hydraulic roller, 9:1 compression.

727 tranny with 2500 stall and with 3.55 gear

205/70/15 fronts on 5" rims, 315/65/15 Drag Radials on 11" rims on the rear.

AC, PS, PB, full interior with SRT-8 front seats, cd player and as quiet as my 2000 Dakota.

Hoping to make some passes at the track in the next few weeks and should run some mid to low 10's and 9's if I want to push the limits of a stock block.

Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 67Satty] #1102588
10/27/11 09:12 PM
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Newfoundland
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68 Dart.
It has a 4.15" stroked RB, 11-1 comp. [Email]263@.050[/Email] 540 lift hydraulic flat tappit cam. Stock RPM heads, 850dp, msd ignition, 2" TTI headers, and 3" x pipe with ultra flows. 727 with CRT reverse manual VB, and PTC 3800 converter. Dana 60 with 3.73 gears. 325-50-15 ET drag radials, and about 3800 lbs at the line. ALL stock body and interior. Manual steering, and manual drums all around.

Car runs 11 flat at 121 mph, in FULL street attire, on 91 octane.

Car still has everything that the factory gave it, and it all works. Still has the original jack in the trunk. Well the vinyl top is gone, but thats it.

Car is driven every nice day that I can drive it. Only real issue is, or was, the oil pan hitting the pavement every now and again, but thats to blame on the sh%^&ty roads here. Jacked the front up an inch with the torsion bars, and alls well now.

If I did it all over, I'd drop the comp a little to compensate for the crappy gas here.

Or drop it alot and put a supercharger or blower on it. Maybe that will be the next upgrade




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Re: Street/Strip Car Street Usage [Re: 67Satty] #1102589
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Well my truck didn't get a mile on it in 2011. Motor was out getting 'updated and I had to wait on parts and people half the summer'. Normally it see's 1000-2000 miles a year. The combo is; 528 hemi, 10.4-1 tunnel ram with 2 850 thermoquads, solid roller .722/.698 285/290@.050 110 centerline [Email]installed@106.[/Email] Convertor is going back for restall, it currently stalls at 6200, 4.56 with spool, 31" tall street tires, 32.5/14 radial drag slicks and a 4-link rear suspension.
I have installed 2 racing bucket seats to save some weight over the old bench seat. I've removed the heater but retain the wipers. I've also ditched the bumpers to save some weight and it looks better without them.
It idles a bit snotty but that doesn't bother me, gas mileage is about 10mpg. I run a very large trans cooler and have never had a problem with the loose convertor. Exhaust is 3-1/2" pipes with an X-pipe and 3-1/2" ultra-flows.
I drive it at least once a week often more than that when the weather is decent, (I've driven it at -25F but it is normally tyed up for the winters) It's got armstrong power steering and manuel drum brakes. It runs on anything you put in the tank, normally 89.5 octane. It cruises at around [Email]3400-3500rpm@60mph.[/Email] In the summer heat it will run at 185-200F. Dave

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