what kind of engine would be needed to put this car on the consistent hi 8s?

67 Barracuda
2900 pounds
727 w/ trans brake
4,88 gears
33" slicks
cal tracks

950 horse at the flywheel, Domingo. How about a milenium headed 572 aluminum Hemi?

572 B1, 572-13, as stated 950HP, giving the suspension could hold it.

Piece of cake


512 c.i.--MP World block, 4.380 bore--Indy-1 CNC heads--13 to 1 CR, [Zero deck flat-tops should get you there]--STX-22,[276-.590] Racer Brown solid lifter cam--160# seat, 375# open valve springs--1150 Gas Dominator--Callies Dragon Slayer crank, 4.25 stroke--Oliver or Compstar rods--Freshin it up after 1000 passes. They claim the World block will go 4.600 bore, so it should last a lifetime of freshin ups.

Many different ways...

Low deck 498, Indy SR's, 101 mm turbo...

Race block stroker small block, Indy 360-1, 101 mm turbo.

Gen III stroker Hemi, 101 mm turbo.

470 cube lsx

Essentially CUBIC INCHES and CUBIC $s

Hello,

My pick would be large cubes like has been mentioned and then I would pick the head/cam combo that provided the best valve train reliability for the long term buck.

Damon

Well on Caltracs with a TF I am gonna say have fun

Having said that obviously weather conditions play a role. I mean running 8.99 at 0' DA is a lot easier than doing it at 4500' DA is. My Cuda was a high 8 second car in Northern CA with about an 880HP Hemi. But it is a fairly good working car. However bringing it here to Vegas transformed it into a 9.20 car pretty quickly. The same car now weighs a bit less at about 2920 and can go 8.30's here in Vegas on a good day. It now has 180 more HP than it did then.

Another way to look at it is the better and more efficient the chassis is the less HP it will take to get the job done. Just look at the Super Stock guys. Very efficient chassis and geared to the moon for ET not MPH. A car like mine is chasing MPH more than ET. I am still under geared and using a tight converter to chase MPH on the stop rather than ET on the track. In an SS or Comp type car you can likely run high 8's with 800ish HP properly geared.

800hp and a car that 60's 1.23 to 1.25.I know 2 that do it one is 3000lb camaro and the other is 2800+ mustang..both made 800hp give or take 10.A small block is 100lbs lighter.

In good air it needs about 820 hp to go 8.9@151. This is assuming the chassis is dead on. Better have a good converter cause 5% slip is about 7900 rpm w/33"&4.88. Weather gets below perfect, more HP. Track less than perfect, more HP. Car less than perfect, more hp. my bet is you want closer to 900. I'd say a good set of ported -1 Indys, dominator, 280@.050 roller the more compression the better. Cu in? How tight do you want to twist it? 512@8200-572@6800, either will get you there
Doug

I was going to say 850 hp. But 950 would do it easier. My 528 hemi made 850 hp on the dyno. I have run 9.88 Et @ 141 mph in my 3950 lb 71 hemi cuda. That is with a tight street converter on caltracs. My 60 fts were terrible but I didn't get to dial the car in since I don't have a roll cage and they asked me to slow down or leave.
A true 850 hp or higher will get you there.

One of my little 358 R5P7 engines with a torqueflite. Maybe with a glide and a perfect converter. You are stating your car is 2,900. It will be lighter with one of these engines too.

Leon

GE-J79,with afterburner....................

a 471 10 to 1 sr head motor with a 200 kit. ride all over and blast it.

.030 over flat top piston 440. Pocket ported Edelbrock rpm's. .640 lift flat tappet cam. M-1 intake and a dominator. 2 stage nitrous system, hit it with 225 30 ft. out, then stack 175 on it when you shift to second. With that much gear in the car, you will probably have to lift off the 2nd stage at about 1100 ft., but it will pull hard enough in the middle to get you an 8.90 at about 145.

Since you saved so much on the engine, you will be able to upgrade the converter a few times until it can handle the abuse.

895 HP 572 Ray Barton HEMI

After thinking about this, I over shot big time...

My motor, which is a stock block with home ported Eddy heads, 389 inches, .520 hydraulic cam would run mid 9's at 2900 lbs. To lose the additional .5 seconds, all it would take would be a race block, slightly bigger cam and 88 mm turbo...