RAMM wanted to know about this 451..............

I wish the Mopar Muscle Magazine video of the first pull on Comp Cams dyno was still available.

The previous 451 strokers in the contest had both made around 585 hp. That evening at dinner there was much laughter that we thought we were going to make over 700 hp, and everybody knew it was impossible with Edelbrock RPM heads.

So next day when they set up the screen on the dyno computer to show the horsepower graph, they had it maxed out at 600 hp for our first pull. When the horsepower graph showed up on the screen, the dyno operator turned and said to the crowd standing behind him, "IT WENT OFF MY CHART!"

The then editor of Mopar Muscle Magazine, Randy Bolig said, "Well..........that's what we wanted to find out."

They expanded the chart and it read, 701 hp.