Posted by NCWayne on July 23, 2010 at 21:02:15 from (173.188.168.49):
In Reply to: Re: Some drivers... posted by Inno on July 23, 2010 at 20:28:49:
It was a 55 2dr 210 series, handiman wagon with a 283 and a 4 speed Saginaw. Honestly we got lucky on the build and got way more power than we expected. I never had it dynoed but we had a friend give us a cam out of an old Vette and a set of power pack heads to go with it. Then it was topped with an Edelbrock intake and nothing more than a 450 Holley spread bore. I took it to the strip in Suffolk, VA once and ran in the low 13's in the quarter mile. It was my first legal drag racing so my light times sucked. I was hoping to cut a good light and maybe get into the high 12's but my LAST run I cut a great light but the result was I blew the spider gears in the origional rear. That resulted in a long, cold wait in near total darkness waiting for someone to go get a trailer.....None of us expected to break anything so we were stupid/over confident/cocky... and didn't bring one with us.... But the weak link of the OEM the rear got taken care of later.
The night I topped her out, or rather ran out of carb from what I could tell, Me and a buddy were headed down I-40 out of Hickory, on a long straight stretch, about 2 o'clock one morning. Some guy in a new 'sports car' was messing with me wanting to race so, since there was no one else in sight, I oblidged him. The last I remember was seeing his lights start to fall behind me as I pegged the speedo, and then watched the electric wipers start climbing up the windshield by themselves until they finally stopped about half way. Can't remember the calculations but I remember I was turning around 4500 RPM when I pegged the speedo and was turing around 6500 when I finally backed off so it worked out somewhere between 150 and 155. Either way it was the fastest I have ever been in a car, and Man What A Rush. Even so I never got it up that fast again since, to be honest, it scared me. To have a car that heavy feel like it's floating on air really increases your 'pucker factor'...Unlike my buddies Vette, that he had clocked at nearly 170, the old 55's just didn't have the ground effects to go that fast and retain enough of their grip on the road to do it too often or in any other way other than a straight line. OH well I guess we were all young and dumb once.....It's learing how dumb that we were that has allowed us to get older without killing ourselves...LOL
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