The Walmart Effect

All good points, especially the the details, we took a stock GTS `68 340 car, goal was to remain as stock as poss, internally the car was never touched, just the addition of 391 gears, hedders, and pinion snubber, the rest was attention to (detail) dist curve, carb jetting, and a lot of little tricks, low or no cost, when we first took the dart out first few runs the best we could muster was 14.50`s, rather embarrassing I thought, somewhere 100 mph mark, afterward we were running low 12.90`s / 110 mph, on street tires, which for a dailey driver back in `72 was relatively quick...!