1968 Match Race '383 Road Runner' vs 'Cutlass 350 Ram-Rod'

cudavert said
I don't get it. The 340 had pretty much everything that that Olds motor had, plus special swoopy exhaust manifolds which the Olds didn't. I would like to see what a bone stock '71 340 (with the T-quad and a '68 manual-trans cam) would run against this Olds. Can't see how anyone wouldn't consider the early 340's a top-to-bottom comprehensive factory performance motor.

Or.....were you just trying to stir the pot? :D

EL5DEMON340 said
Bolted into the 3,100-pound Nova body, the L79 provided a great power-to-weight bargain that, in stock condition, resulted in 0-60 times of 7.2 seconds and quarter-mile performance at 15.1 seconds at 93 mph as tested by Car Life magazine in their May 1966 issue.

Really? The 'hot' L79-powered Nova was capable of a 15.1 et at 93mph?
That's it?
Where did they test it? At Bandimere?
I ran G/Pure Stock at OCIR in early 1970 with my totally stock '69 340 Swinger, 727, 3.23 open diff on G70-14 bias-ply Goodyear Polyglas tires and my best was 14.28 at 98+ mph.
The 340 was very conservatively rated at 275 horsepower. It came from Mother Mopar with 10.5:1 compression, forged pistons w/floating pins, a forged crank and double-roller timing chain. Sure, it would have been nice to have an aluminum intake and the heads could have flowed a bit better but the valves were 2.02 intake and 1.60 exhaust and would buzz to 6000 rpm without any problem.