Re: Shame to blow those original date blocks!
10/4 on the new technology dale. mike
10/4 on the new technology dale. mike
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Re: if i remeber correctly we had john mahers 68
we were just running the local drag strips here in pa and ohio it was a dark blue 68 L-88. i think it was B/SP that was a long time and many cars ago. john sold it and bought the ZL-1 69 corvette he now has.Comment
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i also build several BBC 427 engine used in
midyear corvettes that ran in the 9s back in the 70s. these were tunnel ram engines with roller cams.Comment
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Re: if i remeber correctly we had john mahers 68
Clem, somewhere around here I have a picture of a bright blue( marina?) 1968 L88 that was sponsored by Ed Black Chevrolet of Albuq.(the logo was a black bird in front of Ed Black's. It ran B/SP and set the NHRA record at Indy in Sept 68. The motor was stock(never apart). It had headers, Hurst, slicks, a gear, Etc. After setting the record they took it apart to do all the trick things you could do then(degree the cam, match the header to the port's etc, I cant think of the term for it). Well it never ran as fast after that. I wonder whatever happened to that car.Comment
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Re: i also build several BBC 427 engine used in
Clem
In about 67/68 a friends brother..was building a drag car in Chicago out of a chevelle.
He ordered a balanced and blueprinted fuel injected 427 from Nickey Chevrolet...with the short stacks if I recall.
Straight through custom headers and a custom paint job. Only ran a few times but was either in the high 9's or low 10's.
Later the brother lost interest and my fiend Lenny pulled the engine and put it into his tilt front end '55 Chevy called Instant Insanity.
Don't you wonder where all this cars ended up!
My grade school friend with the '55 got a good job as a mechanic for the Chicago police department..but got involved with some undesirables ( it was a tough Chicago neighborhood ). I left Chicago to go to college ( one of a few from the neighborhood to do so ) . A year or so later I heard that Lenny overdosed and died at the age of 19 or 20.
Your drag strip comments brought back the memories.
One time we were sitting on Lenny's front porch at night. A Chicago police car stopped in front of the house and turned the spot light on us. Lenny got up and did a dance for the Cops. He was that kind of guy!
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Re: Shame to blow those original date blocks!
Lots of cars running in vintage road racing are NOT documented real race cars from the era of their vintage. Depending on the racing organization that you choose to run, more than 1/2 the cars in any one field are purpose built, new era, vintage race cars. By this I mean they were built from stock cars within the last 10 years. The East coast is MUCH more liberal than the West coast.
It is still very expensive to build a vintage road race car with no history. The only difference is the price of admission in buying your car. Real documented history cars cost mo money. Huh! Kinda like these NCRS cars.
By the way, I'm a Corvette guy who races a Ford!Comment
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Re: 10.sec. L88
Bruce, the car in Canada is a silver 69 coupe that is built to PURE stock specs. It is a four speed car and the driver is supposedly one of the best. He runs in the 11.6s!Comment
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john said 11.07 was the best time it ran
with no internal work just a tricked up carb,headers,no alt belt and 90-10 shocks on the frontComment
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no insult intended
25 years ago while in college, one of my jobs was working at a speed shop so I knew a LOT of racers (and liked most of them). I also owned 2 V8 Monzas, a 454 1982 Camaro and now my Corvettes including an L89 that runs a 4.25 stroker crank and another that I'm assembling with a 532. But I still see it as a waste to be racing with a vintage block when the late model blocks are easily available and have no price premium for the dates.
Just my 2 cents,
Mark
P.S. I have seriously grenaded a few engines, but thankfully all were built with late model blocks and "non-collectible" parts so it only hurt half as much ($).Comment
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L88 specs
The oldest reference I have is from the mid-seventies and shows intake .540, exhaust .560 lift with duration intake 326 and exhaust 334 but that was measured with the lifter .015 off the base circle.
Since most modern cam measurements are at .050 lift, I believe those numbers are 264 and 269 degrees. Still a LOT of duration by any means!
MarkComment
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Did you see the pictures here a few mos ago
With the smashed Cobra, Corvettes, Mustang, Camaro etc at the track in the midwest? Ouch! There was a guy near me who totalled an original 427 Cobra in the late '60's and he still has to live with the nickname that got him.
I always thought that vintage racing was supposed to be all about the fun and comraderie, but there are a few who appear to be trying way too hard to win and take out a lot of other cars when they mess up.
I haven't raced in years, but one of my Monzas would top out at close to 160 (with a destroked 400). Haven't done that since my oldest was born and she's in college now. But one of the things she said as a baby was "little car big motor".
MarkComment
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early L88 specs 3925535
dur @.050 264/269,112 lobe seperation, valve open/close @.050, IO 24, IC 60, EO 70.5, EC 18.5, lift.560"/580"Comment
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there is a guy on this board that was in that
he may want to speak upComment
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Re: early L88 specs 3925535
Isn't that lift number at zero lash?
MarkComment
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I hope he was OK!
But I bet he was mad if he wasn't the cause of the pileup.
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