The Flying Dutchman 2014 New Thread!

[VintageMusclecar]

Patrick Budd: Polishing a Set of Sneakers

Great article.

It's not as hard as most people think to put a well-sorted BBC deep into the 10's--even the "baby" rats.

Back in the `80's the staging lanes at our local tracks were filled with 10 second bracket bombers, and there were more crate LS7 engines than you could shake a stick at. Those engines make an <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="text-decoration: underline">honest</span></span> 480-ish HP in stock form and will make low-mid 500's with a cam and intake swap. Add a halfway-decent prepped car with a converter and a gear and you'll run 10's until the cows come home.

There was one guy with a BONE stock (save for headers) `69 L78 Nova with 400 Turbo and 4.10 gears, and with sticky street tires he was running high 11's-low 12's depending on the weather.

John's numbers are more than plausible.

[EZ Nova]

Thanks, that's it! I haven't seen it in 2 years, but I did have it printed out at home. I'm only about hour from the Falls boarder and been to Pat's shop, ProCars when he had it a few times.

People sometimes don't look at &quot;THE TOTAL PACKAGE&quot;, and therefore HURT performance as noted in in there when Mike switched to Merlin heads and Team G intake, PLUS going up a point in compression, THE CAR SLOWED DOWN A 2 TENTHS AND 2 MPH. That's why when we were putting my motor together, my guy recommend the SMALL 660 roller over the typical BBc 714 I had that everyone was using.

[bbbenny]

Yes, technology changed with the years. In the late sixteys if you had car that ran in the 12S. You had a good car. But today, your grand mother wouldn;t drive that car. I;m not braging in any way. But I run a full unlitened body car. 3350 lb. no driver. All motor, foot brake, and I;m doing a 10:31 Et at 133 MPH. And that;s lunching the car at 1,800 RPM;s. Thanks The Dutchman

[Salvatore]

Sounds like you got that car dialed in Professor. And, you do not hurt any parts doing it.

[Stefano]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bbbenny</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yes, technology changed with the years. In the late sixteys if you had car that ran in the 12S. You had a good car. But today, your grand mother wouldn;t drive that car. I;m not braging in any way. But I run a full unlitened body car. 3350 lb. no driver. All motor, foot brake, and I;m doing a 10:31 Et at 133 MPH. And that;s lunching the car at 1,800 RPM;s. Thanks The Dutchman

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That is hauling the mail.........congrats Professor.

[bbbenny]

I ran at Island drayway on Sunday. The air was bad. But it wasn;t raining. I Red lighted first round. Early one week late the next!!!! The car ran a 10;47 Et MPH 130.00 Going to the Nost Super Stock Weekend this weekend at Beaver springs. Thanks The Dutchman [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

[Salvatore]

Island Dragway the nicest drag strip east of the Mississippi in the 60's/70's I guess.
I remember when that place was the place to go. They had the best Stock/SuperStock racing around. Jersey, Pa. NY and even some Conn. racers.

Good luck at the Beaver Strip.

[Schonyenko2]

Good luck at the Beaver Strip. [/quote]

I too would like to wish Benny good luck, and a good time at the &quot;Beaver Strip&quot;