Originally posted by arrakis1985ish Oldmobile Delta 88 with 350 built 60 over, camel hump heads that were port and polished with a rebuild rochester Q-jet carb. 3.42:1 rearend in second gear. I was second place , 2 seconds behind the leader gaining by almost .5 sec per lap, 25 laps to go. Lapped car decided to push me sideways going into turn 3 and I went end over end 3 times and rolled 2 3/4 times landing on the passenger door. The whole crowd thought I was dead because I didn't get out of the car. Truth was I was hanging from my harness and couldn't get it unlocked with my body weight on it. I loved that car, I took it home and removed all the bolts, picked the car up and shook it, anything that fell off in one piece I swept into the garage and threw the rest of the car away.
What was your fastest car?
I had a 1969 Firebird HO with a compression ratio of 10 to 1.
350 w/ 300 HP, turned the quarter mile in 11.9 which wasn't bad for a stock car.
I raced a Ford Cobra on the expressway and slowly pulled away from him doing 140 mph, but unfortunately the stress was too much and the engine spun a rod bearing. Those engines weren't meant to be run wide open for any length of time.
That motor went on to win again in a 1985ish Monte Carlo but it's on the shelf now, in line to be torn down and rebuilt.
Originally posted by arrakisI once had a '95 Ford Escort 1.3. Damn that car was fast.
What was your fastest car?
I had a 1969 Firebird HO with a compression ratio of 10 to 1.
350 w/ 300 HP, turned the quarter mile in 11.9 which wasn't bad for a stock car.
I raced a Ford Cobra on the expressway and slowly pulled away from him doing 140 mph, but unfortunately the stress was too much and the engine spun a rod bearing. Those engines weren't meant to be run wide open for any length of time.
I once drove 100miles of irish roads (no motorways), in 55 minutes.
Compare that to my Toyota Corrolla Twin Cam 1.6i, that I had in Australia. It took me 4 days to drive 1600 miles in that little fecker. Slooooooow. ALthough I did take an overnight stopover on a tropical island.
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Originally posted by arrakisnext time i'm going to click on the thread "something for the ladies" 😴
Acceleration is the change of velocity with respect to time, or the the following;
* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500.
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of nitromethane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% ...[text shortened]... he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race course.
That folks, is acceleration
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Originally posted by Phlabibit350's are swell
Your cut and paste has me all stoked!
This other guy Damian asked me for years to let him buy the engine out of a used truck I had. It was a 350 bored over 30 with Harley headers, and stuff. I finally blew the rear end out of the truck yelling "Feel the Power" on a huge hill. My wife was there, and still busts me up about it.
Are you a motor head?
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Originally posted by uzlessMy ex-girlfriend had one of those back then. I bought an FM radio for her and installed it under the dash so she could listen to better music.
I used to have a 1989 Sunbird. It had a sweet AM radio and a cool yellow ribbon on the antenna. All my friends were jealous of my most awesomest car.
But after a few months the plastic dash broke from the weight of the radio and she bitched me out for it.ðŸ˜
Originally posted by arrakisDid you figure out all that data yourself? the one......before you finish reading the sentence " how sure are you about that one? What assumptions are you making?
Acceleration is the change of velocity with respect to time, or the the following;
* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500.
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of nitromethane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% ...[text shortened]... he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race course.
That folks, is acceleration
Originally posted by XanthosNZ
A drag race, just like arrakis, is over in seconds.
EDIT: Hey arsekiss, didn't you just last week attempt to tell me that I had to quote my sources even though I actually had? Where did you paste this from?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGGL%2CGGGL%3A2006-17%2CGGGL%3Aen&q=%22first+4+rows+at+the+Daytona+500