What stole your attention from HiFi?

Fatparrot,

You know not what you're talking about. 406, Brodex -8's flowed by AFR, mechanical roller cam, steel crank, six inch rods, 950 holley, BG fuel system. Over 520 engine dyno horses, 459 rear wheel horse, tubbed, certified to ten flat. Internally balanced, 11.02 to one, blah, blah. Doug Nash, Mcleod clutch. I built the car myself damnit. Any amount of money you want to bet as to it's existence and performance, anytime. Photos? Got em. Me in it? Got em. Time slips? Got em. Audiogon member who's seen it? Try Vetterone. Yeah, you rubbed me the wrong way pal. And, did I mention I built it myself? Photos of that too.

Lugnut, Whoa, take it easy! My apologies. From your first description, it sounded like primarily a streeter, with some mods! Especially the part about "street tires". How the hell did you get it to "hook up" with street tires for an ET in the mid 10's?!!!

Sounds like you really did some work on that Nova, and I can see how my post would rub you the wrong way. Again, I apologize. I've just heard so many friggin' stories about 10 or 11 ET's from people with stocker or slightly modded muscle cars. Hey, they were fast, but not that fast!

Fatparrot, I've seen the photos. Damn scary indeed, heheh! Weren't the front wheels in the air Pat?

Pat: I don't doubt your times or horsepower figures one bit. I say that because my old Mustang with a cross-rammed 302 ran in the high 10's. Then again, it couldn't get out of it's own way until about 5000 rpm either : )

I would only add that if you were runnng a Barry Grant based carb / fuel system, you could have probably went even faster / made more power with a David Braswell carb system. Every time we've gone from a BG carb to a Braswell carb, the power and times are inferior. Having Air Flow Research do your heads was a wise move. They are the kings when it comes to doing small block Chevy heads : )

It is amazing to me how some of these guys have "decent" parts, but can never get them to run the way that they should. As a case in point, one of my friends had a 1970 split bumper Z28 small block Camaro. It ran decently, but i always new it could run better. One weekend, i told him that we were going to get that car running like it should. Most of the difference in power came from making sure that the basics were right i.e. plugging small vacuum leaks ( less vacuum means less torque ), proper power valves in the Holley, proper jetting, proper timing / advance curve, proper valve lash ( solid cam ), proper pressure in the tires, different launching strategy, etc... The difference in before and after times was almost 2 seconds in the quarter and GOBS more torque and driveability on the street. Sean
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WOW! A lotta muscle car fans here eh?

My stang is gonna be a total project car. Im gonna pick up an old beatup honda civic as mu bad weather / commuter car. I really dont want to void the warranty though, so other than getting a new throttlebody and plentum there aint a whole lot more i can do. Maybe get a good chip tuner so i can adjust all my ratios without removing the chip and voiding the warranty. :)

I would like to get some rally stripes from lip to butt and get a fiberglass ram air hood with hood pins. :)

Ill put a couple updated photo's with the badges on my virt system,. ;)