Are 340’s rare

abodyjoe said

that out of a 69 340? my valiant ran 14.2's all day long with a stock 79 360 long block with a performer intake and 600 holley being choked down by 273 manifolds. 3.55 gear too..

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When I had my stock 340 in there 600 Holley some under steering linkage headers, 2 1/4 exhaust, stock 1 5/8 inner diameter chrome tips, 323s, street radials, some crap mufflers, it usually ran 14.2 to 14.0. One time at Cecil Co track it went 13.90, it hooked, all the stars aligned, tail wind ect. But was always 14.0 or so every other time.

There were usually other 340 Dusters or Demons at track running 12s. I ask what they had done they said headers, 750 carb, cam, gears, tires. That was a common answer I got. A lot of ppl could get em in 12s pretty easily from what I saw it was very common. This was early 80s time frame when no one cared about A bodies at all. They were cheap cars the average guy could afford.

I remember ppl telling me put some 2 1/2 pipes on mine the 2 1/4s are holding it back ect