Why the /6
As has been said throughout this thread, the response by others make having a /6 a lot of fun. Have been to a # of small (burger place) shows... some cars having blowers thru the hoods, some with big block engines with everything chromed. I really enjoy the response (appreciation) when people see that all we have is a /6 225 under the hood!
I was originally going to drop in a 360 V8... until seeing the repeated positive responses for the stock /6.
Well, for all of my long-winded, serious-sounding, boring diatribes on forced induction and how it relates to slant sixes, the bottom line with ALL this stuff is, "is it FUN???"
The slant six is a novelty, or has become one, on the rodders's circuit, and is a welcome change from the thousands of small- block and big-block cars that populate the car shows of today. There are hundreds of different-appearing ways to dress a slant six up for a show, and none of them look anything like a V-8! The Weber 2-bbl, side-draft induction systems are eye-candy for lots of us, and the few Roots-style blower conversions !hat I've seen at shows are just jaw-dropping!
A single 4-bbl/header-equipped, /6 might not be the quickest way through the quarter-mile, but if well-put-together and cleanly built, the chances of it winning a trophy at a show, might just hinge on its rarity and originality.
Like I said; it's all about having fun!!!
Our particular car is built with that in mind, although it tends to look like we are deadly serious about going fast, and nothing else.That's just not the case.
If we were that intent on creating time slips with really impressive numbers on them, we would have done a lot of things differently. What we did was to make a bald-faced copy of a successful car and its engine, hoping we could coax some sort of semblance of similar times out of our "copy-cat" effort. So far, I can't report that we have had much luck in repeating the times turned in by the car we have attempted to build a clone of, but we have been so frustratingly S-L-O-W in getting it to the strip, I will admit, that it has taken a lot of fun out of it. A variety of problems has kept us from the strip with this bucket of bolts until now, but it would appear that our time is coming for some test-n-tune, shortly, where we can actually see what we have wrought!
NOW, (maybe,) we will have some fun!!!! :blob:
Talk is cheap.... we'll see!!!:cheers:
