Stock 340 dyno tests?

crackedback said

Turn a stock 340 dinky cammed at 6500 rpm... good luck with that making any power. They are dead at 5300-5500 Just beacuse it will spin there doesn't mean you should.

Maybe when the stock elim engine builder gets done with it and it is FAR from stock.

We are talking about stock builds not NHRA stock eliminator mills.

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LOL…too funny. And absolutely true.

My first car was a 72 Demon 340 4 speed. Is only been driving a few weeks and all my friends and I (we had the experience of exactly ZERO with anything except trying to get the girls in the car) had convinced ourselves that this thing was turning 7500!!!

I told my dad what I thought and he said you are all full of ****. You’ll be lucky if it’s turning 5500 and that’s a stretch.

The next day I skipped a class and ran to the local speed shop (you could do that in 1980) and snagged a tach. Wired it up in shop.

And the disappointment was staggering. 5100 and that was it.

That was all she had.

I seriously considered taking the tach out because it hurt my pride a bit but I sucked it up and left it in there.