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Small Block said
George: "MAYBE the world of Mopars". I knew you had it in ya....or lets say on ya.....i mean the cahones/who ha. Good to see you're one of us tough old goats.....oops, that's a pontiac. Mans got to be careful what he calls what around here or he'll be acussed of probing.......oops, that's a ford. Oh well at any rate the hazards of showing up at a party around here with a bowtie.....oops, that's a chevy. Oh well, this is suregrip territory.

Well, I'll tell you how I see it. Mopars are my first love, have been since I first saw pics of Tritak & Morgan wagon when I was nine years old, but I have built other stuff for myself & for others, and I dont have any illusions. The way a car is built & prepped & dialed in has WAY MORE to do with how quick it is than whether it has a pentastar or a bowtie or a blue-oval on it. The most impressive thing I ever built was a chevy (4200lbs, no power adders, factory iron heads, 9" dots, 10.20s@ 133 in full street trim) & the reason why was because the owner had the commitment to take the time & effort to really do things properly, and to spend enough time at test n tunes to realize the potential of the combination.
I bought my first Mopar (early Valiant 2dr sedan) in 1976, but I never drove it, Started buying parts, sold it with a core 340, 4-speed & an 8 3/4 with used 4.56s, used the proceeds to buy a running 302 Pinto with a boatload of good parts. I laugh about that car now, but for the price I couldn't go wrong, I was 17, the Mopar was still a LONG ways from running, was really too much of a project for me at that time.I street raced the pinto for a year, eventually parted it out, & STILL got more money than I had tied up in it, so it WAS a good deal. The proceeds from parting out the Pinto enabled me to to buy a 440 Duster (left the factory as a B5 blue 340 car & I still have it) so the Pinto turned out to be a pretty good purchase in the long run.