anyone care to share their 15/16/17 second 440 stories??

there must be a few on here......

this is a close as i can come...

a friends 69 GTX, around 70,000 miles
stock heads, fresh VJ, Crane 272H cam(216/228 @ .050, 112lsa), 933 springs, untouched bottom end except for new timing set.
stock intake, exhaust, "remanufactured" Carter AVS with correct part number on it. stock jetting.
stock single point distributor, recurved.
Turbo style mufflers.
11" Trans King converter
3.91 gears, sure grip
L60-15 M/T "sticky" rear tires

14.40's, dont recall the speed......probably like 95-97mph.
this was around 1986. it was at Quaker City in Ohio for one of Car Review Magazine's street car shoot-outs.
this was the second year thay had this event, and my buddies car was like #45 out of over 200 entries.
Bob K. was running high 12's at that show.

after my buddy got a feel for what was and wasn't considered "legal" for this type of event, i made a few changes to the combo for the next season......but he never did go again.
BTW.....he drove the car from Vermont to Ohio to participate in that event.
i ended up re-ringing the bottom end, doing a mild pocket port to the heads, and installing the bigger Summit cam(224/234 @ .050, 114lsa).
with 4.10 gears and G70-14 Coker red stripe repo tires it went 13.70's at over 100mph at the local track.


heres another one:
another friends car, a 68 Charger with a late 70's low CR 440, high miles and all original with a spread bore Holley 650DP on it and a cheap set of 1 3/4" headers and 2 1/4" exhaust.
4 speed, cheapo G60-15 non-sticky street tires, crappy stock type clutch that slipped on the gear changes, 3.23's or 3.55's(cant remember for sure), sure grip.

as i recall i got it to go like 15.40-ish....and i seem to remember it was over 1/2 second slower with the owner driving it......so that would put it almost into the 16 second zone.

that was also around 1986 or 87, and by this time my heap was already well into the 11's