Ford 272 C.I. runs low 11's. Why do Mopar guys need 408's?

Ford 272 C.I. runs low 11's. Why do Mopar guys need 408's?

You mentioned the guy who held a record RACING in RACE CAR to in general shade people with 408 motors, that could insinuate that every one of them was expected to be in a race car too. That's why I asked if this was the "Racer's forum". Makes perfect sense , to me. You can have all the motor in the world and yet still have a car that's not set up to put it to the ground. Now you just said that of course it's a race car Etc , then you still go on about the motor discounting the other half of it , the race car . What exactly are you going about with the motor that you insinuate others dont already do? Blueprint compression and square up to limit to raise it? Yeah let's read machine every single bit of that block, rods because we totally need that in our street cars , that extra six horsepower or two horsepower or .4 horsepower.
John's deal is unique...john was running that class, not the rest of us..nor so has anyone saidthey want to. I'm not impressed with John like you are but it's for other reasons. Some people really make him look bad.. but so does he by staying silent.

66fs said
Why would I be in the Racers Forum, I have no interest in having a race car. However, I don't need to stay in my lane. Are you out of your lane? If more people put more into quality machine work and parts into their engine they would be faster. We both know that a dedicated Drag Race car is just that. I mainly rides on a trailer to do it's quarter mile thing and everything is optimized for that goal. My only point was, for all the know it alls, here is a low compression 318 supposedly worthless and not up for any kind of performance running the quarter mile in 10 seconds. What if you backed off the cam, that lowly 318 would still be making plenty of power. Granted by a professional life long respected racer. John and I have had a few long conversatioins.