[quote=AN][quote=mglsharkson]Since you guys spark memory lane…
late 70’s started collage finally got ’69 Z-28 muscle car, spent year in the shop getting fix (got suckered buying it, had a broken crank shaft unknown to me), anyway bore over small block, 3/4 race cam, would do 0 – 60 5 sec, quarter in high 12’s (have the race slips for proof!) with highway gears( hit 60 mph before shifting at 8000 rpms), wheel hop off the line, no traction bars.
Buddies had stock big block GTO442 and 396 Chevy SS camero, both beat me at the drags with mid 12’s run!
Gas shot up to $1.25 / gallon so had to sell it since around town got 10 mpg.
Anyway what a fun time!
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Wow, that’s very impressive, getting a V8 to rev to 8000 RPM. A lot of cars these days still don’t run 12s. However, I thought it’s kind of funny that you were running 12s, yet only hit 5 sec 0-60. I guess traction was a big issue huh? The new 370Z is only a low 13 sec car and it does 0-60 in 4.7 sec. The biggest difference seems to be in the MPG. Most of the cars these days that run high 12s, low 13s get around high teen in mpg. Cars that get 10 mpg these days are running 10s and 11s. Would be very interesting to see what cars 20-30 years from now can do.[/quote]
AN: I have to say, 0 – 60 in low five seconds is extremely impressive, as is the 8000rpm. My Mustang had a really short throw in all four gears, and I don’t remember getting above 5000 or 6000rpm in any gear before upshifting.
I could count on the fingers of one hand cars that turned low 5 second 0 – 60 times (if you were turning 7 seconds, that was considered extremely quick), but there were more out there than I thought apparently.
I had a friend with an SS396 Chevelle and another with a 1970 Trans Am that he’d dropped a 455 Super Duty into, and both of them turned high 6, low 7 second 0 – 60 times. That Chevelle used to eat shifter linkages and I remember my friend constantly being underneath that beast replacing cotter pins. I also remember him having days when he would be stuck in first or second gear because of the linkage problems.
That 455SD was a monster block. I don’t know why Pontiac didn’t put that engine in more of their cars. It really blew the 400 and 442 away.
