Personal Bests

You got a barn door and I have a 6” wide tire.. we both are crazy! Actually, it will be pretty hard to translate my combination into any other combo, for example, put a 10” tire on the car and you want 4000+ stall with everything else that is in car. 112 degs lobe separation? Free power if you tighten that up, well not with an exhaust manifold. Etc etc, but this is it.

I think mine is a 78 360 block bored to .040. With Icon forged flat top pistons .010 in the hole. 12.2 to 1. Scat h beam rods and Scat 4” cast crank. The heads are x heads ported by Dwayne Porter of Porter Racing Heads. 2.055 intake and 1.625 exhaust. Flow about 274cfm intake. The cam is an Engle solid flat tappet intake .557 lift 245 degs at .050 lift. Exh is .551 lift with 261 degs at .050 lift. 112 degs lobe seperation. Intake is stock 68-69 340 manifold with the divider cut down and smoothed out a bit. Stock hipo 340 exh manifolds. Eddy 800 cfm AVS thunder series. Two fuel pumps. A big Carter mechanical and a Holley red pump back at the tank with Holley hydra mat inside. Mallory billet distributor and MSD 6al. A 904 with a Cope RMVB with a PTC 9.5 “ converter. Flashes at 3500 rpm, 4:10 rear gear in an 8 3/4”. TTI 2.5” exhaust. /6 front torsion bars with QA1 R’s on the front and 1” over arched leafs on the rear QA-1 doubles rear shocks. Car is original 68 Barracuda 340-s Fastback, weighs 3353 lbs with me in it. Tires are repo f70-14 polyglas redlines. Best run is 1.60 60’ 11.393, best mph is 117.22 shifting at 6500 rpm. A very smart guy once told me that the motors in FAST racing are pretty under performing for what’s in them, due to the box the rules put you in. Seems pretty accurate. Like you set an et goal and build it to reach that goal. FAST. You set the same et goal and build it MORE and let the crappy parts take what they will and you end up in the same spot. Crazy!