MRL Performance 340, WOW!

340's rule!, Bought a numbers '71 340 Cuda in 1980 as a stock street car with 3.55's, it had small headers, a .484 purple hyd. up it, low rise intake and a 750 Holley, a Super Holeshot 3500 verter, that ran 13.3's on 8x26" slicks, thought I could better that some......

In went a DC.590 solid cam, 4.30 gears, Strip Dominator, 2" spacer, 850DP, (went slower with a 750!!) 4200T/A verter, 10x28's, 1.3/4" Hedman Chassis hdrs, a snubber, stock springs, this was with stock unported 2.02 heads, only revved it to around 6300, result> 12.39@108 at approx 3600lbs at the line (all steel car), worked it out to be around 374 track hp, nothing amazing but it always used to pull a wheel up, I could feel the torque, put a lot of 440 cars to shame back then, terrific engines, responded well to absolutley every mod if thought about before adding. Oh the 11.01 was with a 250 shot. Learnt some since then, you can see it wrap the tyre as only 10psi in them.

I'm tempted to get back into Racing again and would certainly Use Mike for 630hp+ SB Motor, put it in a 3000lb A-body and still even today wipe out a lot of the BB stroker boys over here who mostly, not all, only seem to muster 10.3's in similar weight cars with anything up to 512cubes!!!:???: