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1965 GTO, best car I ever had
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Uuuuh Huuuuh... with Dick Landy or Don Garlits building your 700 hp motor friend? >bsflag<
Motor in my Challenger was probably totally stock. 426 hemi was rated at 425hp and the 440 would outrun it unless the hemi had just been tuned up. 440 stayed in tune longer and broke less often. Got the car via a local Ford dealer buying it from a police auction. Canyon Ford by I-17. Cops had removed the bags of weed from the trunk before the auction, but the smell remained. Loper's speed shop did my dyno tuning back then.
Your comment shows you know nothing about the real muscle cars of the late 60's and early 70's.
The prototype 442 (W30) Olds would pass and lap a 427 Corvette on the GM test track east of PHX. It was a green Cutlass with the 455 shoehorned in.
btw DGN, Only custom built motor I ever got was a FIAT 1200 Granluche
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 616413My friend had a hemi roadrunner and had to adjust the heavy valves every 300 miles, not so with 440's hydrolics. I had a 74 charger with a 306 solid roller car, not what I told the builder to put in. He wanted it to turn 7,000 rpm but didn't know the small torque ports wouldn't flow past 6,000. He put 750 lb Vasco jet valve springs in it which would wear out the cam's roller bearings in 1,000 miles. They would not compress so I had to take the heads entirely off to change them. Yechhh....
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