Unported head quickness?

My favorite A body from my past...was built in late 80s and street raced and steadily improved from about '88 to '95 in Lincoln, Ne:

'67 Barracuda fastback, gutted interior with 2 lowback poly seats and a B&M Pro Stick, 3100 pounds with me in it. Ran best of 11.68 @115.62, most runs were 11.70s to 11.80s. Shifted 1-2 @4800, 2-3 @ 5200, through the traps @ 5500

Bottom end: standard bore '70 440 block, NOS cast 8.2:1 pistons, stock 440 standard rods, stock forged crank, 402 pan, hi volume oil pump, cloyes tru roller timing gear.

Top end: MP purple shaft .474 hemi grind cam, advanced 4 deg, rhoades lifters, new stock stamped rockers, new shafts, 906 heads w/ stock valves very minor bowl work and good valve job & cut .050, Holley Street Dominator intake gasket matched and cleaned up runners, stock 4781 Holley 850 dp, MSD billet distributor, MSD blaster coil, MSD 6al box, Accel plugs and wires, CPPA 2" underchassis headers, 3 1/2 flowmaster mufflers (forget which type).

Trans: 727 with B&M manual pack, deep pan, stock high-stall converter

Rear: A body 8 3/4 with 3.91 sure grip, cut and resplined C-body axles by Moser, 11 x 2 1/2 drum brakes

Front suspension: stock '73+ bbp front end, DC engine swap K-member, rebuilt manual steering box, /6 t bars, worn out shocks, 15 X 3 1/2 Centerline Auto-Drags, skinny radial street tires

Rear suspension: springs from a '72 Duster 340 (car was rusted beyond saving), rear clamps removed, 2 extra front clamps, Rancho long shocks, solid front bushing, no snubber, 9 X 28 MT slicks on 15 X 7 Centerline Auto-Drags.


This car was brutally simple and effective. Beat tons of "built" cars with a mostly stock drivetrain. I usually had less in my entire car than my opponents had into just their engine. Had people crawl in and under the car looking for a hidden nitrous bottle several times. Eventually towards the end I did put a NOS Cheater plate on the car, never went to the track with nitrous, but was beating well known high 10 cars by 2-3 car lengths