1970's Street Machines

[RichSchmidt]

You probably saw a pic when it looked like it did back in it's "race car" days. I hung fiberglass doors and front clip on it with lexan windows,and an iron headed small block with 10.5:1 and a mediocre solid roller cam. It weighed about 2900# with me in it,and ran mid 11's. To be fair though,I had a super duper nitrous convertor in it(and no nitrous),and I would later find that the nitrous convertor was way wrong for this combo. I used the same convertor in the car with my big block,and it ran 12.0's(3600#'s though) the first time out with a very dead 1.70 60 foot just like the small block(not spinning though). I did make a few tune up changes to the engine,but nothing drastic,but I swapped out the 5000 stall nitrous convertor for a 5000 stall super stock type unit,and went 6 tenths faster. The small block not only would have probably went 10.90 and a 1.48 60 foot with the better convertor,but probably needed more convertor too. The small block should have been running 10.60's at 2900#,but never got there.

Not a 70's style street car,but it was driven on the street. Notice the low style Camaro spoiler. That was inspired by me seeing the rat bird article above.
circa 1996/97



Or this,when it had a a 355 with ported camel hump heads,flat tappet cam,th-350 with 3500 stall,weighed 3400# and had 4.10's in it,and ran 12.0 on motor,only hitting 3rd as the car approached the stripes. I swapped in 5.13's,and hit my rpm at the stripes and the car went a tenth slower,go figure.It had no roll bar,full stock interior,power brakes,loud stereo,and drove to the track

Circa 1994/95



Or like this when I first put the big block in it circa 2001