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

MOPAROFFICIAL said
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.

I was always fascinated by Stock and Super Stock cars because they showed, at least in the old days when you had to run factory stuff, what a car was capable of. Stock used everything stock but the cam and exhaust. Super Stock only allowed valve train and intake manifold and exhaust. Quality machine work means straight round bores, sealed to the pistons with good rings, and valves that seal. Equal deck hights would be nice as well as close to equal chambers sealed to the block. Really, I could care less about most other drag racing. Most of my good friends drag raced and I was at the track quite a bit helping them when I was in my 20's and 30's. One of my friends raced Super Stock in the 70's and was the first one to make sense when it came to making power. That's it, no insinuation. I personally don't see spending the coin for stoker, new everything, and aluminum heads to make some horsepower number. Do what you want, we still live in whats left of America. What anyone else wants does not matter to me, I'm good.