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If he could fit some 31" tall slicks under it (vs 30), that would help bring the finish line rpm down

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I run the Hoosier 30 x 10.5 radial on my car also. The rollout on that tire is only 92.5". My 29.5 x 10.5 M/T`s look huge next to them. The rollout on those is 94"

Thanks for the post Dwayne. I finally get a chance to log on and I find a post about my motor...cool. I had a great year with the combo and it accomplished what we wanted and then some. The set up was trouble free and consistent. For each of my different set ups over the last few years, I tell Dwayne what I am trying to do and from there it is a matter of listening to what he tells me to do. He has never missed the mark for me and spends a lot of extra time getting some things through my thick skull! I owe big Thank you to Dwayne and with this set up finally won my first Wally during the National Dragster Cahllenge! I cant wait for this year!!
Lon

Hey Lon, 300? heh,heh,heh !!

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Hi Jim,
Maybe I should say the car weighs 3500# so I would only be 250#....

I agree for a race car that Vert is working great

But to the other point, for a dual purpose car this motor has such Massively Fat torque below 4000 it could be a shame to side-step it when you could maybe put it to work a litle more efficiently

This motor is what I expected from Dwayne, us Old schoolers spent so many years working with the old iron big block heads that simply didn't flow anywhere near what heads do today, or what most of the BB chevy competition had back then. But the torque was there, you just needed to know how to get those head CFM limited under-ported motors to hang on to the torque long enough to get some decent RPM out of those old Iron heads. We could still ET with the chevies....even if they out MPH'ed us. My point is that if you learned how to make the old Junk run Fast (even though it wasn't supposed to "on Paper") makes all these bigger cubes and affordable head flow that much more fun to work with. This thread reminds me of those old days where the combo goes faster than the people peering over the fenders might think it would.

Great thread, Buddy!