It’s kinda funny and pathetic at the same time reading this and thinking back. The funny part is Direct Connection gave us the Bible on running anything from 8’s-14’s with junk parts. Lots of us were running high 9’s to low 10’s with factory heads, stock cranks, and TRW or Sealed Power heavy weight pistons with 2800-3200 pound cars and Super Stock springs. Now with stroker engines, cnc’d heads, lite-weight pistons, better tires, better suspensions, better traction at tracks, etc very few an put the total package to run fast at the track. Impressive DYNO numbers and somewhat pathetic track times. I see guys weekly that are t happy with their performance so instead of working to fix it throw a NOS kit on it. Laugh if you want at the old school ways but I know they had some pretty smart guys putting these packages together. Anyone look looking for those old cams may find them on their Dads parts shelves. I know I still have mine.
Well I was one of those that hit mine with a 175hp kit cos I wanted to run a 9 which was my goal in 1990. Going from a 10.71 NA to 9's was out of my range money wise, I had fairly good 906's 260cfm, and that 290@.050 sft cam but a mere 9.5>9.7:1, and an850DP on a crap team G, couldn't afford pistons, and a rebuild, already had a 4800 stall and 4.88's, there was prob 1>2 10ths in the chassis but not 8 10ths....motor ran real good NA...on the N20 9 sec pass it trapped@7400 and I didn't wanna do that again with 6pk rods/pistons, that was 2000gms per pot swinging about in there
and it was the same with the 340 car 12.4's>11.01, and a 10 sec340 car was the goal which didn't exist back then.
